Sorrento (Thompson Okanagan)
1. Adams Lake ~ River Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Adams Lake - Appears as 'choo choo ach' (see Chu Chua) on Archibald McDonald's 1827 map of 'Thompson's River District.'
2. Anglemont Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
The name was coined in 1914 by W.A. Hudson, first postmaster here. Hudson derived Anglemont from nearby Angle Mountain, so named about 1877 by G.M. Dawson.
3. Sorrento / Notch Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Notch Hill - So named by G.M. Dawson because of the gap in the hills here through which the CPR mainline runs.
4. White Lake Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
White Lake - There is a pronounced showing of lime on the bottom near the shore.
  5. Chum Creek 2 - Leave a Public Review
  6. Meadow Creek 3 - Leave a Public Review
  7. Notch Hill Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
8. Celista (Scotch Creek, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
When a post office was to be established here in 1908 and the residents could not agree on a suitable name for it, the postal authorities suggested that it be named after Celesta Creek.
  9. Hustalen 1 (Scotch Creek, 2km) - Leave a Public Review
10. Lee Creek / Jack Lee Creek (Scotch Creek, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Jack Lee Creek - After Jack Lee, a popular guide, who has been described as 'slight and wiry with quick slogging strides.'
11. Scotch Creek / Copper Island / Magna Bay / Pukeashun Mountain / Skwaam Bay (Scotch Creek, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Copper Island so named since Walter Moberly found traces of copper on its southwest corner in 1865. The island's Shuswap Indian name, anglicized as 'Hum-tat-qua,' means 'something sitting in the water.'
  12. Shuswap Lake Park (Scotch Creek, 2km) - Leave a Public Review
  13. St. Ives (Scotch Creek, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Woods Landing (Scotch Creek, 2km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  15. Balmoral (Blind Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  16. Blind Bay (Blind Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  17. Eagle Bay (Blind Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  18. Magna Bay (Blind Bay, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Kamloops 2 (Tappen, 15km) - Leave a Public Review
  20. North Bay 5 (Tappen, 15km) - Leave a Public Review
  21. Paradise Point (Tappen, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. Tappen / Herald Provincial Park / Kault Hill / Skimikin Creek (Tappen, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Herald Provincial Park - Dr. Dundas Herald acquired this fine lakefront property in 1906. In 1975 the provincial government purchased the land from Miss Jessie Herald but retained the family name for the park that it then established.
  23. Momich Lakes Park (Magna Bay, 16km) - Leave a Public Review
  24. Pukeashun Park (Magna Bay, 16km) - Leave a Public Review
25. Chase (Village) / Niskonlith Lake (Chase, 17km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 679-3238 - Leave a Public Review
After Whitfield Chase (1820-96). A native of New York state, Chase came west over the Oregon Trail in 1852. For some years he worked as a carpenter and unprofitably prospected for gold on the Fraser and Thompson Rivers.
  26. Gleneden (Chase, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  27. Neskonlith 1 (Chase, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  28. Neskonlith 2 (Chase, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  29. Niskonlith Lake Park (Chase, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  30. Sahhaltkum 4 (Chase, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  31. Scotch Creek 4 (Chase, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  32. Shuswap (Chase, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
33. Squilax (Chase, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Squilax - The authors vividly remember visiting an old Indian, Michel Toma, who was young when the CPR was building its transcontinental line at Squilax.
  34. Stequmwhulpa 5 (Chase, 17km) - Leave a Public Review
  35. Turtle Valley (Chase, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  36. White Lake Park (Eagle Bay, 19km) - Leave a Public Review