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Deep Creek (Thompson Okanagan)
  1. Annis (Grindrod, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  2. Deep Creek (Grindrod, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  3. Grandview Bench (Grindrod, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
4. Grindrod (Grindrod, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Grindrod - After Edmund Holden Grindrod, first CPR inspector of telegraphs in British Columbia (1886) and later a farmer near Kamloops.
5. Hupel (Grindrod, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Hupel - After Herman ('Mike') Hupel, a genial, crosseyed German-American who became postmaster here in 1910.
  6. Mara (Grindrod, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Ranchero (Grindrod, 7km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
8. Ashton Creek (Enderby, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
After Charles Ashton, who came to British Columbia from England in 1865 and settled here in 1887.
9. Enderby (City) / Fortune Creek / Tsuius Creek (Enderby, 9km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 838-7230 - Leave a Public Review
Enderby - Originally known as Spallumcheen, Steamboat Landing, Fortune's Landing, Lambly's Landing, or Belvidere.
  10. Enderby 2 (Enderby, 9km) - Leave a Public Review
  11. Enderby Cliffs Park (Enderby, 9km) - Leave a Public Review
  12. Mabel Lake (Enderby, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Shuswap River Islands Park (Enderby, 9km) - Leave a Public Review
  14. Skookumchuck Rapids Park (Enderby, 9km) - Leave a Public Review
  15. Broadview (Salmon Arm, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Mara Meadows Ecological Reserve (Salmon Arm, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
  17. Mara Meadows Park (Salmon Arm, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
18. Salmon Arm (City) / Shuswap Lake (Salmon Arm, 10km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 803-4000 - Leave a Public Review
Salmon Arm - Takes its name from Shuswap Lake's southwest arm, which in turn was named back in the days when the salmon swarmed up its creeks and river in such numbers that the settlers pitchforked them out of the water and
  19. Salmon River 1 (Salmon Arm, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
  20. Seymour Arm (Salmon Arm, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Silver Creek (Salmon Arm, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. South Canoe (Salmon Arm, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Sweetsbridge (Salmon Arm, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
  24. Switsemalph 3 (Salmon Arm, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
  25. Switsemalph 6 (Salmon Arm, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
  26. Switsemalph 7 (Salmon Arm, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
  27. Upper Violet Creek Park (Salmon Arm, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
28. 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.
  29. Herald Park (Canoe, 15km) - Leave a Public Review
  30. Mara Park (Mara, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
31. Armstrong (City) (Armstrong, 19km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 546-3023 - Leave a Public Review
The first settlers chose the name of Aberdeen; however, when the Shuswap and Okanagan Railway (a subsidiary of the CPR) was built.
  32. Armstrong Junction (Armstrong, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
33. Brocklehurst (Armstrong, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
After Ed Brocklehurst, an Englishman who was a successful orchardist locally. Arriving around 1896, he returned to England in 1907.
34. Glenemma (Armstrong, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
After Emma, wife of Kenneth Sweet, first postmaster here in 1895.
  35. Harris 3 (Armstrong, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
36. Hullcar (Armstrong, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Hullcar - There seems to be agreement that this word is related to the nearby high rock bluff, but it is not clear whether it is derived from the Chinook jargon or the Okanagan Indian language, or what its meaning is.
  37. Larkin (Armstrong, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
38. O'Keefe (Armstrong, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
O'Keefe - Named after 'The O'Keefe of Okanagan,' Cornelius O'Keefe, who arrived at the head of Okanagan Lake around 1867 and began acquiring land for the ranch that made him wealthy.
  39. Otter Lake 2 (Armstrong, 19km) - Leave a Public Review
40. Spallumcheen (District) (Armstrong, 19km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 546-3013 - Leave a Public Review
Spallumcheen - Derived from the Shuswap Indian word spalmtsin, meaning 'flat area along edge.'