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Winlaw (Kootenay Rockies)
1. Donald / Mount Freshfield Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Donald - After Donald A. Smith, who became Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, director of the CPR during and after construction. (For further biographical detail, see Strathcona Park.)
2. Winlaw / Koch Creek / Lebahdo Your Host(s): Canada Post, - Leave a Public Review
Koch Creek - After William C.E. Koch, a 'well and favourably known' local settler and sawmill operator. When a post office was opened at the CPR'S Koch Siding, he became postmaster.
  3. Appledale Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  4. Lebahdo Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  5. Nicholson Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Oasis Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  7. Perrys Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  8. Passmore (Slocan Park, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Slocan Park (Slocan Park, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  10. Vallican (Slocan Park, 12km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  11. Blewett (South Slocan, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
12. Bonnington Falls (South Slocan, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  13. Corra Linn (South Slocan, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  14. Playmor Junction (South Slocan, 17km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
15. South Slocan / Bonnington Falls (South Slocan, 17km) 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.
16. Crescent Valley / Norns Range (Crescent Valley, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Norns Range - The Norns were the Fates in Scandinavian mythology.
17. Krestova (Crescent Valley, 19km) 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.'
  18. New Settlement (Crescent Valley, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  19. Shoreacres (Crescent Valley, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  20. Tarrys (Crescent Valley, 19km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Brandon (Slocan, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
22. Lemon Creek (Slocan, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Lemon Creek - After Robert E. Lemon, pioneer merchant who later became warden of Nelson jail.
23. Slocan (Village) / Hela Peak / Selkirk Mountains / Valhalla Ranges (Slocan, 18km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 355-2277 - Leave a Public Review
Hela Peak - In Norse mythology, Hela or Hel was goddess of the world of the dead.
  24. Slocan City (Slocan, 18km) - Leave a Public Review
  25. Valhalla Park (Slocan, 18km) - Leave a Public Review