Westwold

Westwold
Westwold Location of Westwold in British Columbia
Coordinates: 50°28′0″N119°45′0″W / 50.46667°N 119.75000°W / 50.46667; -119.75000
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Postal code	V0E 3B0
Area codes	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]

References

1. "Westwold (community)". BCGNIS . Retrieved February 3, 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. September 12, 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.