Vavenby (Thompson Okanagan)
1. McMurphy 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.
2. Vavenby / Mad River / Reg Christie Creek Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Mad River - The Reverend George Grant described it in 1872 as 'a violent mountain affluent.'
3. Wire Cache Park 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.
4. Avola (Clearwater, 23km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
A post office was opened here in 1913 during construction of the Canadian Northern Railway.
  5. Blackpool (Clearwater, 23km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
6. Clearwater (District) / Dawson Falls / Dutch Lake / Foghorn Mountain / Helmcken Falls / Hemp Creek / Montigny Creek (Clearwater, 23km) 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.
  7. North Thompson River Park (Clearwater, 23km) - Leave a Public Review
  8. Stillwater (Clearwater, 23km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Taweel Park (Clearwater, 23km) - Leave a Public Review
10. Wells Gray Park (Clearwater, 23km) 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.
  11. Boulder (Little Fort, 38km) - Leave a Public Review