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Westwold
Location of Westwold in British Columbia
Coordinates: 50°28′20.51″N119°46′26.52″W / 50.4723639°N 119.7740333°W / 50.4723639; -119.7740333 Coordinates: 50°28′20.51″N119°46′26.52″W / 50.4723639°N 119.7740333°W / 50.4723639; -119.7740333
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Province Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia
Postal code
V0E 3B0
Area code(s) 250, 778

Westwold is an unincorporated settlement in the Interior of British Columbia. [1] A small farming and logging community, it is located between Kamloops and Vernon on Highway 97. The original name for the settlement was "Grand Prairie", but this was changed in 1925 with the construction of a CNR spur line to Kelowna, to avoid a station name conflict. [2] [3] Glacial tills near the townsite of Westwold have provided fossils from the Sangamonian Stage 130,000 years ago. [4]

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References

  1. "Westwold (community)". BCGNIS . Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  2. Baxter, Angus (1997). In search of your Canadian roots: tracing your family tree in Canada. Genealogical Publishing Co. p. 120. ISBN   9780806316260.
  3. "Kamloops to Kelowna by Canadian National Railway At Last!". The Sunday Province. Vancouver, BC. 12 September 1925. p. 39.
  4. Ludvigsen, Rolf (1996). Life in stone: a natural history of British Columbia's fossils. Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Press. p. 271. ISBN   0-7748-0577-3.