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Krestova (Kootenay Rockies)
1. Crescent Valley / Norns Range (Crescent Valley, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Norns Range - The Norns were the Fates in Scandinavian mythology.
2. Krestova (Crescent Valley, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Krestova - When the Doukhobors, a Russian religious sect, settled here, they named their community Krestova, meaning 'the place of the cross.'
  3. New Settlement (Crescent Valley, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  4. Shoreacres (Crescent Valley, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  5. Tarrys (Crescent Valley, 3km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Blewett (South Slocan, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
7. Bonnington Falls (South Slocan, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Corra Linn (South Slocan, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Playmor Junction (South Slocan, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
10. South Slocan / Bonnington Falls (South Slocan, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
After Bonnington Linn, a waterfall on the Scottish estate of Sir Charles Ross, baronet (1872-1942), first president of the West Kootenay Power & Light Co.
  11. Passmore (Slocan Park, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Slocan Park (Slocan Park, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Vallican (Slocan Park, 9km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
14. Brilliant (Castlegar, 14km) 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,
15. Castlegar (City) / Nancy Greene Lake (Castlegar, 14km) 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.
  16. Deer Park (Castlegar, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Gibson Creek (Castlegar, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
18. Kinnaird (Castlegar, 14km) 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.
  19. Ootischenia (Castlegar, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Pass Creek (Castlegar, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Raspberry (Castlegar, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Renata (Castlegar, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Robson West (Castlegar, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  24. Rockyview (Castlegar, 14km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
25. Thrums (Castlegar, 14km) 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).
  26. Westley (Castlegar, 14km) - Leave a Public Review
  27. Coykendahl (Robson, 14km) - Leave a Public Review
  28. Nancy Greene Park (Robson, 14km) - Leave a Public Review
29. 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:
  30. Syringa Park (Robson, 14km) - Leave a Public Review
  31. Appledale (Winlaw, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
32. Donald / Mount Freshfield (Winlaw, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Donald - After Donald A. Smith, who became Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, director of the CPR during and after construction. (For further biographical detail, see Strathcona Park.)
  33. Lebahdo (Winlaw, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  34. Nicholson (Winlaw, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. Oasis (Winlaw, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. Perrys (Winlaw, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
37. Winlaw / Koch Creek / Lebahdo (Winlaw, 20km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Koch Creek - After William C.E. Koch, a 'well and favourably known' local settler and sawmill operator. When a post office was opened at the CPR'S Koch Siding, he became postmaster.