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Genelle (Kootenay Rockies)
1. Genelle / Champion Lakes Park Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Champion Lakes Park - These lakes are named after James W, Champion. A 1910 directory lists him as a fruit grower at Fruitvale, also in this district.
2. Poupore Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Poupore - After J.E. Poupore, a railway contractor and lumberman once active in the Kootenays.
3. Genelle / Champion Lakes Park (Genelle, 1km) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Champion Lakes Park - These lakes are named after James W, Champion. A 1910 directory lists him as a fruit grower at Fruitvale, also in this district.
4. Poupore (Genelle, 1km) Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Poupore - After J.E. Poupore, a railway contractor and lumberman once active in the Kootenays.
  5. Blueberry Creek Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Champion Lakes Park - Leave a Public Review
  7. Lower China Creek Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Upper China Creek Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Blueberry Creek (Genelle, 1km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Champion Lakes Park (Genelle, 1km) - Leave a Public Review
  11. Lower China Creek (Genelle, 1km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Upper China Creek (Genelle, 1km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Beaver Creek Park (Trail, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  14. Beaver Falls (Trail, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Birchbank (Trail, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
  16. East Trail (Trail, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Glenmerry (Trail, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Rivervale (Trail, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Sunningdale (Trail, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
20. Tadanac / Hanna Creek / Topping Creek (Trail, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Hanna Creek - After Frank Hanna, who in 1890, in association with 'Colonel' Eugene Sayre Topping, pre-empted over 300 acres at the mouth of Trail Creek, the future townsite of Trail.
21. Trail (City) / Mount Heinze (Trail, 13km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 364-1262 - Leave a Public Review
Mount Heinze - After F. Augustus Heinze, American speculator and capitalist, who in 1895-6 built the first smelter at Trail.
  22. West Trail (Trail, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
23. Brilliant (Castlegar, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
According to A.M. Evalenko, when the Doukhobors came to the Kootenays, they gave their first settlement 'the name of the Valley of Consolation, Village of Brilliant, from a brilliant diamond of the first water,
24. Castlegar (City) / Nancy Greene Lake (Castlegar, 13km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 365-7227 - Leave a Public Review
The available evidence favours the derivation of Castlegar from 'Castle Garden,' an immigration station in New York state. However, there is a Castlegar in Ireland.
  25. Deer Park (Castlegar, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Gibson Creek (Castlegar, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
27. Kinnaird (Castlegar, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Kinnaird - About 1904 the CPR set up a 'box car station' here and named it Kinnaird after Lord Kinnaird, a shareholder in the company. Kinnaird was amalgamated with Castlegar in 1974.
  28. Ootischenia (Castlegar, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Pass Creek (Castlegar, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  30. Raspberry (Castlegar, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  31. Renata (Castlegar, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  32. Robson West (Castlegar, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  33. Rockyview (Castlegar, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
34. Thrums (Castlegar, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Thrums - After the Scottish village that is the scene of Sir James Barrie's A Window in Thrums (1889).
  35. Westley (Castlegar, 13km) - Leave a Public Review
36. Warfield (Village) (Warfield, 13km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 368-8202 - Leave a Public Review
Warfield - Named after an associate of F.A. Heinze, the builder of the original smelter at Trail.
  37. Coykendahl (Robson, 14km) - Leave a Public Review
  38. Nancy Greene Park (Robson, 14km) - Leave a Public Review
39. Robson / Deer Park / Mount Freya / Hugh Keenleyside Dam (Robson, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1889, when G.M. Dawson published his geological survey of the area, he noted:
  40. Syringa Park (Robson, 14km) - Leave a Public Review