1. Reclaim
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2. Yarrow / Vedder River (Yarrow, 6km)
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Vedder River - Named after Volkert Vedder, who arrived in the Hope district around 1860. In the 1870s he owned land by the Vedder River. |
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3. Cultus Lake / Lindell Beach / Liumchen Creek / Nesakwatch Creek / Mount Slesse / Tamihi Creek (Cultus Lake, 5km)
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Chinook jargon for anything bad, worthless, or foul. The anglicized form of the Halkomelem word for the lake is Sweltzer, now the name of the river draining the lake. The latter word means unclear liquid that warns secretly.' |
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4. Cultus Lake Park (Cultus Lake, 5km)
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5. Lindell (Cultus Lake, 5km)
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6. Minto Landing (Cultus Lake, 5km)
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7. Slesse Park (Cultus Lake, 5km)
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8. CFB Chilliwack (Sardis, 12km)
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9. Deroche (Deroche, 17km)
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After Joseph Deroche, the first settler here. He arrived in British Columbia from California in 1860, became a teamster in the Cariboo, acquired a farm here, and died in 1922 at the age of ninety-nine. |
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10. Fraser River Ecological Reserve / Fraser River Watershed (Deroche, 17km)
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Fraser River after Simon Fraser (1776?-1862). Fraser was born in Bennington, Vermont. At the end of the American Revolution, his Loyalist family moved to Canada, where he joined the NWC in 1792 and was admitted as a partner in 1802. |
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11. Holachten 8 (Deroche, 17km)
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12. Lakahahmen 11 (Deroche, 17km)
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13. Nicomen (Deroche, 17km)
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14. Papekwatchin 4 (Deroche, 17km)
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15. Skumalasph 16 (Deroche, 17km)
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16. Skweahm 10 (Deroche, 17km)
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17. Squawkum Creek 3 (Deroche, 17km)
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18. Zaitscullachan 9 (Deroche, 17km)
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19. Lake Errock (Lake Errock, 20km)
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Lake Errock - Originally Squakum Lake, but this inelegant name, for a kind of spring salmon, was changed to Loch Erroch for the post office maintained here from 1892 to 1896. |
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20. Dewdney / Nicomen Island / Norrish Creek (Dewdney, 20km)
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After the Honourable Edgar Dewdney (18351916). He arrived in British Columbia in 1859 and the next year, with Walter Moberly, built the famous Dewdney Trail from Fort Hope to Rock Creek (later continued to Wild Horse Creek). |
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21. Durieu (Dewdney, 20km)
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22. Steelhead (Dewdney, 20km)
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Steelhead - ). In the 1920s a logging railway was used to get out the timber here, and 'Steelhead' indicated the end of the steel. |