Vavenby / Mad River / Reg Christie Creek
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Vavenby, BC (Nearby: Birch Island, Clearwater, Blackpool, Avola, Chu Chua)

  • Mad River
  • Reg Christie Creek
  • Reg Christie Creek
  • Vavenby

3080 McCorvie Rd
Vavenby, British Columbia
V0E 3A0


British Columbia Tourism Region : Thompson Okanagan

Description From Owner:
  • Mad River - The Reverend George Grant described it in 1872 as 'a violent mountain affluent.'
  • Reg Christie Creek - After Harold Reginald Monro Christie, BCLS, killed in action in 1916.
  • Vavenby - When a post office was established here in 1910, an early settler, Daubney Pridgeon, suggested that it be named after his birthplace, Navenby in Lincolnshire.
  • Unfortunately the postal authorities misread his handwriting, and so it became 'Vavenby.'
  • With permission from G.P.V and Helen B. Akrigg 1997 British Columbia Place Names. UBC Press.


Reg Christie Creek

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Nearby:
Nearby Lakes and Mountains:
  • Avery Lake, 6km
  • McCorvie Lake, 7km
  • Vavenby Mountain, 8km
  • Mount McClennan, 10km
  • Running Bear Lake, 9km
  • Graffunder Lakes, 10km
  • Harp Mountain, 17km
  • Saskum Lake, 19km
  • Mount Bob Mitchell, 19km
  • Raft Mountain, 19km
  • Silence Lake, 24km
  • Granite Mountain, 17km
  • Foghorn Mountain, 17km
  • Saskum Mountain, 28km
  • Baird Lake, 29km
  • Trophy Mountain, 26km
  • North Barrière Lake, 29km
  • Dunn Peak, 23km
  • Sheila Lake, 27km
  • Table Mountain, 30km
  • Moul Lake, 31km
  • East Barrière Lake, 34km
  • Russell Lake, 23km
  • Mount Philip, 36km
  • Axel Lake, 24km
  • Baldy Mountain, 26km
  • Skeeter Lake, 38km
  • Dutch Lake, 25km
  • Philip Lake, 35km
  • Telfer Lake, 28km
  • Fight Lake, 38km
  • Gannett Mountain, 27km
  • South Barrière Lake, 43km
  • Upper South Barrière Lake, 43km
  • Gannett Lake, 29km
  • Battle Mountain, 42km
  • Sock Lake, 31km
  • Stevens Lakes, 45km
  • McCarthy Lake, 28km
  • Chu Chua Mountain, 33km
  • Little Momich Lake, 36km
  • Mica Lake, 29km
  • Johnson Lake, 46km
  • Camp Lake, 44km
  • Hallamore Lake, 30km
  • Needmore Lake, 45km
  • Samatosum Mountain, 47km
  • Saunders Lake, 46km
  • Adams Lake, 47km
  • Shafer Lake, 47km