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Stillwater (Thompson Okanagan)
1. Avola (Clearwater, 45km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A post office was opened here in 1913 during construction of the Canadian Northern Railway.
  2. Blackpool (Clearwater, 45km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
3. Clearwater (District) / Dawson Falls / Dutch Lake / Foghorn Mountain / Helmcken Falls / Hemp Creek / Montigny Creek (Clearwater, 45km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 674-2257 - Leave a Public Review
Dawson Falls after George Herbert Dawson, Surveyor-General of British Columbia 1912-17.
  4. North Thompson River Park (Clearwater, 45km) - Leave a Public Review
  5. Stillwater (Clearwater, 45km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Taweel Park (Clearwater, 45km) - Leave a Public Review
7. Wells Gray Park (Clearwater, 45km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Wells Gray Park - Named after Arthur Wellesley (Wells) Gray, born in New Westminster in 1876. He became mayor of that city in 1913.
8. McMurphy (Vavenby, 54km) Your Host(s): Post Office - Leave a Public Review
McMurphy - After an engineer who, during construction of the Canadian Northern Railway, lost his footing on a slippery rock and fell to his death near here.
9. Vavenby / Mad River / Reg Christie Creek (Vavenby, 54km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Mad River - The Reverend George Grant described it in 1872 as 'a violent mountain affluent.'
10. Wire Cache Park (Vavenby, 54km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Wire Cache Park - In 1874 the federal government signed a contract with F.J. Barnard to build a telegraph line linking Cache Creek with Edmonton.
11. Blue River / Mount Cheadle / Hamber Provincial Park / Mount Hogue / Mount Hooker / Kilpill Mountain / Kinbasket Lake (Blue River, 45km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
The Reverend George M. Grant, describing his journey down the valley of the North Thompson in 1872, observed: