Thrums (Kootenay Rockies)
1. Brilliant (Castlegar, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
According to A.M. Evalenko, when the Doukhobors came to the Kootenays, they gave their first settlement 'the name of the Valley of Consolation, Village of Brilliant, from a brilliant diamond of the first water,
2. Castlegar (City) / Nancy Greene Lake (Castlegar, 6km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 365-7227 - Leave a Public Review
The available evidence favours the derivation of Castlegar from 'Castle Garden,' an immigration station in New York state. However, there is a Castlegar in Ireland.
  3. Deer Park (Castlegar, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  4. Gibson Creek (Castlegar, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
5. Kinnaird (Castlegar, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Kinnaird - About 1904 the CPR set up a 'box car station' here and named it Kinnaird after Lord Kinnaird, a shareholder in the company. Kinnaird was amalgamated with Castlegar in 1974.
  6. Ootischenia (Castlegar, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Pass Creek (Castlegar, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Raspberry (Castlegar, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Renata (Castlegar, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Robson West (Castlegar, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Rockyview (Castlegar, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
12. Thrums (Castlegar, 6km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Thrums - After the Scottish village that is the scene of Sir James Barrie's A Window in Thrums (1889).
  13. Westley (Castlegar, 6km) - Leave a Public Review
  14. Coykendahl (Robson, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
  15. Nancy Greene Park (Robson, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
16. Robson / Deer Park / Mount Freya / Hugh Keenleyside Dam (Robson, 8km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
In 1889, when G.M. Dawson published his geological survey of the area, he noted:
  17. Syringa Park (Robson, 8km) - Leave a Public Review
18. Crescent Valley / Norns Range (Crescent Valley, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Norns Range - The Norns were the Fates in Scandinavian mythology.
19. Krestova (Crescent Valley, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Krestova - When the Doukhobors, a Russian religious sect, settled here, they named their community Krestova, meaning 'the place of the cross.'
  20. New Settlement (Crescent Valley, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Shoreacres (Crescent Valley, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  22. Tarrys (Crescent Valley, 13km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  23. Blewett (South Slocan, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
24. Bonnington Falls (South Slocan, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  25. Corra Linn (South Slocan, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Playmor Junction (South Slocan, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
27. South Slocan / Bonnington Falls (South Slocan, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
After Bonnington Linn, a waterfall on the Scottish estate of Sir Charles Ross, baronet (1872-1942), first president of the West Kootenay Power & Light Co.
  28. Blueberry Creek (Genelle, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  29. Champion Lakes Park (Genelle, 15km) - Leave a Public Review
30. Genelle / Champion Lakes Park (Genelle, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Champion Lakes Park - These lakes are named after James W, Champion. A 1910 directory lists him as a fruit grower at Fruitvale, also in this district.
  31. Lower China Creek (Genelle, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
32. Poupore (Genelle, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Poupore - After J.E. Poupore, a railway contractor and lumberman once active in the Kootenays.
  33. Upper China Creek (Genelle, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  34. Blueberry Creek (Genelle, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  35. Champion Lakes Park (Genelle, 16km) - Leave a Public Review
36. Genelle / Champion Lakes Park (Genelle, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Champion Lakes Park - These lakes are named after James W, Champion. A 1910 directory lists him as a fruit grower at Fruitvale, also in this district.
  37. Lower China Creek (Genelle, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
38. Poupore (Genelle, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Poupore - After J.E. Poupore, a railway contractor and lumberman once active in the Kootenays.
  39. Upper China Creek (Genelle, 16km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review