42244 YARROW CENTRAL RD |
British Columbia Tourism Region : Vancouver, Coast, & Mountains
Description From Owner:
Vedder River
- Vedder River - Named after Volkert Vedder, who arrived in the Hope district around 1860. In the 1870s he owned land by the Vedder River.
- Yarrow - Writing on 7 September 1910, Michael Urwin, an official of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company,
- included Yarrow in a list of names of 'our oldest important shareholders' and suggested that stations on the new Fraser Valley line be named after them.
- With permission from G.P.V and Helen B. Akrigg 1997 British Columbia Place Names. UBC Press.
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