Westwold / Ingram Creek
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Westwold, BC (Nearby: Monte Lake, Duck Range, Falkland, Martin Prairie, Pritchard)

  • Ingram Creek
  • Westwold

4651 BC-97
Westwold, British Columbia
V0E 3B0


British Columbia Tourism Region : Thompson Okanagan

Description From Owner:
  • Ingram Creek - After Henry Ingram, who became the first settler in the area around 1865.
  • According to tradition, he brought with him six of the camels that had proved unsatisfactory on the Cariboo Road. Ingram established a good ranch, started a popular race meet in 1873, and died in 1879.
  • Westwold - As early as 1826, this was named Grande Prairie. In 1900 the post office here was named Adelphi, but the new name never really supplanted Grande Prairie.
  • In 1926, when Adelphi was finally dropped, the name of Grande Prairie was no longer available, there now being a Grande Prairie post office in Alberta.
  • Westwold was then suggested by L.R. Pearse, an Englishman long resident in the area. 'Wold' is an old English word for a high open plain. The wold here was west of the railway station.
  • With permission from G.P.V and Helen B. Akrigg 1997 British Columbia Place Names. UBC Press.


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