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Bastion Bay (Thompson Okanagan)
  1. Anstey Hunakwa Park / Anstey Arm (Sicamous, 7km) - Leave a Public Review
Anstey Arm - The son of a master at Rugby, the famous English public school, Francis Senior Anstey became, during the building of the CPR, the first large-scale lumberman on Shuswap Lake.
  2. Bastion Bay (Sicamous, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
3. Cambie (Sicamous, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Henry J. Cambie (1836-1928) deserves more than this whistle stop on the CPR. Born in County Tipperary, Ireland, he came to Canada while still a boy and learned surveying and railway construction on the Grand Trunk and Intercolonial railways.
  4. Kingfisher Creek Ecological Reserve (Sicamous, 7km) - Leave a Public Review
  5. Kingfisher Creek Park (Sicamous, 7km) - Leave a Public Review
6. Sicamous (District) / Cinnemousin Narrows / Hunakwa Lake / Mara Lake / Ratchford Creek (Sicamous, 7km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 836-2477 - Leave a Public Review
Cinnemousin Narrows - in July 1865 Walter Moberly camped 'at the narrows called Cium-moust-un, which means 'come and go back again.''
  7. Sicamous 3 (Sicamous, 7km) - Leave a Public Review
  8. Six Mile Point (Sicamous, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
9. Solsqua (Sicamous, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Solsqua - An anglicization of the Shuswap Indian word meaning 'water.'
  10. Upper Shuswap River Ecological Reserve (Sicamous, 7km) - Leave a Public Review
  11. White Lake Park (Eagle Bay, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  12. Mara Park (Mara, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
13. Canoe / Engineers Point (Canoe, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Reputedly early white travellers were impressed by the number of Indian dugout canoes drawn up on the fine beach here.
  14. Herald Park (Canoe, 15km) - Leave a Public Review
  15. Momich Lakes Park (Magna Bay, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
  16. Pukeashun Park (Magna Bay, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
  17. Kamloops 2 (Tappen, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
  18. North Bay 5 (Tappen, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
  19. Paradise Point (Tappen, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
20. Tappen / Herald Provincial Park / Kault Hill / Skimikin Creek (Tappen, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Herald Provincial Park - Dr. Dundas Herald acquired this fine lakefront property in 1906. In 1975 the provincial government purchased the land from Miss Jessie Herald but retained the family name for the park that it then established.