Gerrard, British Columbia
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Location of Gerrard in British Columbia | |
| Coordinates: 50°30′30″N 117°16′14″W / 50.50833°N 117.27056°W | |
| Country | File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada |
| Province | File:Flag of British Columbia.svg British Columbia |
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Gerrard is a ghost town in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.[1] The settlement was at the south end of Trout Lake, east of Upper Arrow Lake.[2] Honouring banker George Bentley Gerrard, prior names were Selkirk and Twin Falls.[3] The Canadian Pacific Railway's (CPR) Kootenay and Arrowhead Railway from Lardeau northwest to the terminus at Gerrard opened in 1902, where it connected with vessels on Trout Lake.[4] At the time, the Great Northern Railway commenced a parallel line, but soon abandoned the project, and CPR never extended its line farther northwest in the direction of Arrowhead.[5] The company abandoned the Lardeau–Gerrard line in 1942.[6] Although comprising several scattered residences, the old settlement has disappeared with time. A campground exists about a kilometre to the northwest.[3]
Footnotes
- ↑ Basque Garnet (1982), British Columbia Ghost Town Atlas. Sunfire Publications Limited.
- ↑ "Gerrard (former community)". BC Geographical Names.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Nelson Star, 8 Sep 2014". www.nelsonstar.com. 8 September 2014.
- ↑ Meyer 1967, p. 22.
- ↑ Meyer 1967, p. 62.
- ↑ Meyer 1967, p. 27.
References
- Meyer, Ronald Howard (1967). The Evolution of Railways in the Kootenays. www.open.library.ubc.ca (Thesis). doi:10.14288/1.0104134.