Rural Routes British Columbia - Corbin / Michel Creek

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126 Aspen Dr
Sparwood, British Columbia
V0B 2G0

British Columbia Tourism Region : Kootenay Rockies

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After Daniel Chase Corbin of Spokane, Washington, capitalist and railway builder, owner of the Corbin Coal and Coke Company.
Michel Creek - In 1906 Frank Harmer, the postmaster at Elk Prairie, wrote to James White, the Chief Geographer at Ottawa, that the settlement of Michel took its name from 'an old French trapper and hunter called Michel'
who once had a cabin on nearby Michel Prairie.
The person in question would be the half-Indian Pierre Michel, who accompanied the Flathead Indians on several of their campaigns and was admired by them for his bravery. At times he served the HBC as an interpreter.
Michel has also been identified, less convincingly, as Michael Insula, or Red Feather, 'The Little Chief' of the Flatheads in the 1850s, and as Michael Phillipps, the HBC clerk at Fort Shepherd in 1864.
With permission from G.P.V and Helen B. Akrigg 1997 British Columbia Place Names. UBC Press.

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Nearby:	Crowsnest, 13km Savanna, 14km Crowsnest Park, 15km Flathead / Flathead River / Harvey Creek, 19km Frank Slide Interpretive Centre Provincial Historic Site (Developed), 20km Natal, 27km Olson, 24km Elk Valley Park, 24km Hosmer, 23km Elkview, 30km Leitch Collieries Provincial Historic Site (Developed), 25km Elk Prairie, 32km Harmer, 38km Morrissey Park, 30km Morrissey, 30km Line Creek, 41km Cokato, 31km	Mount Fernie Park, 33km Elko, 41km Elko Park, 42km Clode, 56km Greenhills, 57km Flathead, 59km Beauvais Lake Provincial Park, 40km Caithness, 43km Galloway, 44km Massacre Butte Provincial Historic Site (Undeveloped), 43km Grasmere / Mount Haig / Kishinena Creek / Linklater Creek / Phillipps Creek / Wigwam River / Akamina Pass, 56km Round Prairie, 64km Baynes Lake, 52km Tobacco Plains 2, 61km Roosville, 64km Kikomun Creek Park, 53km Kragmont, 56km	Jaffray / Galbraith Creek / Kikomun Creek Park, 49km Akamina-Kishinena Park, 63km Fording, 76km Peigan Timber Limit B, 55km Newgate / Lake Koocanusa, 67km Colvalli, 54km Wardner, 56km Wardner Park, 57km Bull River, 58km First Oil Well in Western Canada National Historic Site, 69km Lieu historique national du Canada du Premier-Puits-de-Pétrole-de-l'Ouest-Canadien, 69km Chain Lakes Provincial Park, 83km Top of the World Park, 66km Norbury Lake Park, 60km Fenwick, 62km Parc national du Canada des Lacs-Waterton, 74km
Nearby Lakes and Mountains:	Coal Mountain, 4km Mount Ptolemy, 4km Mount Pengelly, 4km Mount McGladrey, 5km Tent Mountain, 6km Michel Head, 5km Mount Darrah, 6km Andy Good Peak, 7km Barnes Lake, 9km Mount Taylor, 8km Centre Mountain, 12km Mount Corrigan, 14km Phillipps Lake, 14km Mount Borsato, 14km Summit Lake, 14km Phillipps Peak, 16km Hollebeke Mountain, 17km	Mount Erickson, 23km Allison Peak, 25km Lodgepole Lake, 25km Harvey Lake, 26km St. Eloi Mountain, 25km Packhorse Peak, 27km Baldy Mountain, 29km Tombstone Mountain, 30km Mount Haig, 29km Mount Domke, 35km Jenkinson Peak, 36km Windfall Mountain, 32km Mount Doupe, 36km Overfold Mountain, 34km Mount Gerry Andrews, 37km Mount Secord, 38km Mount Swope, 35km	Hunger Lake, 38km Sheep Mountain, 40km Mount Hosmer, 28km Mount Erris, 42km Harriet Lake, 40km Mount Kuleski, 32km Scarpe Mountain, 38km Mount Salter, 42km Grave Lake, 41km Mount Broadwood, 35km Beryl Lake, 45km Hartley Lake, 31km Marl Lake, 45km Soowa Mountain, 40km Commerce Peak, 43km Mount Procter, 31km

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