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1. Kerr Creek / Jolly Jack Creek
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Jolly Jack Creek - After 'Jolly Jack' Thornton, a prospector and the second white settler in the district. |
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2. Midway (Village) / Boundary Creek
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Boundary Creek so named because it enters the Kettle River at the international boundary. |
| 3. West Midway
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| 4. Anaconda (Greenwood, 12km)
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| 5. Boundary Creek Park (Greenwood, 12km)
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| 6. Boundary Falls (Greenwood, 12km)
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| 7. Deadwood (Greenwood, 12km)
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8. Eholt / Rock Candy Creek (Greenwood, 12km)
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Eholt - After Louis Eholt, who began ranching in the area around 1890. Eholt was a busy rail centre during the mining activity at Phoenix and elsewhere early in the twentieth century. |
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9. Greenwood (City) / Henderson Creek (Greenwood, 12km)
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Greenwood - Writing to the Chief Geographer of Canada in 1905, R.A. Brown reported that Greenwood was named after another mining camp, Greenwood, Colorado. |
| 10. Jewel Lake Park (Greenwood, 12km)
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11. Bridesville (Rock Creek, 17km)
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After David McBride, who settled here in the 1880s. |
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12. Camp McKinney (Rock Creek, 17km)
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After Alfred McKinney, who discovered the Cariboo mine here. The post office, which opened in 1895, closed in 1912. Thereafter Camp McKinney became one of British Columbia's more noted ghost towns. |
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13. Christian Valley / Kettle River (Rock Creek, 17km)
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Kettle River - The Ne-hoi-al-pit-qua of the Indians and the Colvile River of the early whites. |
| 14. Johnstone Creek Park (Rock Creek, 17km)
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| 15. Kettle River Recreation Area (Rock Creek, 17km)
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16. Kettle Valley / Ingram Creek (Rock Creek, 17km)
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Ingram Creek - After Jack Ingram, who had a roadhouse here during the Rock Creek gold rush of the early 1860s. |
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17. Rock Creek / Conkle Lake / Crick Creek / Myncaster (Rock Creek, 17km)
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Conkle Lake after William H. Conkle, who settled in the Kettle Valley in the 1890s. |
| 18. Rock Creek Park (Rock Creek, 17km)
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19. Westbridge (Rock Creek, 17km)
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Westbridge - When the post office here was established in 1900, a bridge was being built across the West Kettle River. |
| 20. Zamora (Rock Creek, 17km)
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