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Kettle Valley

Place in British Columbia, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Kettle Valley is on the south side of the Kettle River in the Boundary region of south central British Columbia.[1] The unincorporated settlement, on Kettle Valley Rd S. (off BC Highway 3), is by road about 29 kilometres (18 mi) west of Greenwood and 56 kilometres (35 mi) east of Osoyoos.

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Name origin

The name came from the Kettle Valley Railway presence.

Railway

The former train station, on the north side of the Kettle River, was 14.2 kilometres (8.8 mi) northwest of Midway, and 4.7 kilometres (2.9 mi) east of Rock Creek.[2] The final passenger train ran in 1964.[3]

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Community

The post office operated 1913–1975.[14] By 1918, the rural hamlet also had an Anglican church and population of 60.[4] Nowadays, most residences lie south of the river, across the concrete-decked bridge which replaced the war-surplus Bailey bridge in 2001.[15]

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