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1. Cambie
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Henry J. Cambie (1836-1928) deserves more than this whistle stop on the CPR. Born in County Tipperary, Ireland, he came to Canada while still a boy and learned surveying and railway construction on the Grand Trunk and Intercolonial railways. |
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2. Sicamous (District) / Cinnemousin Narrows / Hunakwa Lake / Mara Lake / Ratchford Creek
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Cinnemousin Narrows - in July 1865 Walter Moberly camped 'at the narrows called Cium-moust-un, which means 'come and go back again.'' |
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3. Solsqua
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Solsqua - An anglicization of the Shuswap Indian word meaning 'water.' |
| 4. Anstey Hunakwa Park / Anstey Arm
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Anstey Arm - The son of a master at Rugby, the famous English public school, Francis Senior Anstey became, during the building of the CPR, the first large-scale lumberman on Shuswap Lake. |
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| 5. Bastion Bay
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| 6. Kingfisher Creek Ecological Reserve
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| 7. Kingfisher Creek Park
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| 8. Sicamous 3
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| 9. Six Mile Point
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| 10. Upper Shuswap River Ecological Reserve
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| 11. Mara Park (Mara, 18km)
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12. Albas (Malakwa, 17km)
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Albas - After Al Bass, an early trapper in the area northwest of Shuswap Lake. |
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13. Craigellachie (Malakwa, 17km)
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It was here that the last spike of the CPR transcontinental line was driven in 1885. |
| 14. Eagle River Park (Malakwa, 17km)
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15. Malakwa / Clanwilliam Lake / Eagles Pass / Malakwa / Perry River / Queest Creek / Woolsey Creek (Malakwa, 17km)
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Clanwilliam Lake - After the Earl of Clanwilliam, who married a daughter of Governor Kennedy of Vancouver Island. (See Gilford Island.) |
| 16. Mount Griffin Ecological Reserve (Malakwa, 17km)
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| 17. Mount Griffin Park (Malakwa, 17km)
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18. Taft (Malakwa, 17km)
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Taft - The CPR reports that it named its station here after 'Mr. Taft of Hood Lumber Co.' |
| 19. Yard Creek Park (Malakwa, 17km)
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| 20. White Lake Park (Eagle Bay, 20km)
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21. Canoe / Engineers Point (Canoe, 20km)
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Reputedly early white travellers were impressed by the number of Indian dugout canoes drawn up on the fine beach here. |
| 22. Herald Park (Canoe, 20km)
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