John Wheeler (1918-1986) and Marilyn Wheeler moved to Eddy Road near McBride in 1958, where they developed a farm. John was born in England, served in the British military in World War II, and worked as newspaper reporter and teacher before moving to Canada in 1955.

After five years teaching at the McBride high school, John became principal of the McBride elementary school, a post from which he retired in 1974. From 1962 until 1975, he was stipendary magistrate and judge.

Marilyn was president of the McBride Farmers’ Institute. She served several terms as area director of the Regional District of Fraser-Ft. George and produced a history book of the area.

Evald Walter Westlund [1893-1971] moved to the McBride area in 1939. Evald (“Ed”) was born in Minnesota. In 1904 he moved with his parents to Saskatchewan, where he later homesteaded. In 1941 his Wisconsin-born wife Esther (1903-) and their children joined him on their farm west of McBride. “When we came to the farm the road was a trail through two horse-pastures, with seven gates to open and close,” said Esther. With the help of the Board of Trade, Westlund Road was made public. The last hurdle to overcome was the lack of operators for the outdated public works equipment during the War. In 1942 Evald and Ed Garrett volunteered to grade the present road.

Evald farmed part time, operated the grader for the Department of Highways in the summer, and worked for the McBride Timber Company in the winter. He was a steam engineer at the Lamming’s mill for five years before his retirement. He was a member of the McBride Fall Fair Association, the Farmers’ Institute, and the Board of Trade. He was for many years a trustee of the McBride School Board, and donated many hours to the district, which included schools from Valemount to Crescent Spur. In 1965 the Westlunds moved to Ruskin, where they celebrated 40th wedding anniversary in 1970. Ed passed away in the Prince George hospital.

Descriptive of its mouth near that of East Twin Creek

Origin of the name unknown.

Association with Wallop Creek.

Adopted in 1965 as identified in the 1953 BC Gazetteer; a well-established local name. Significance not known.

Alfred Waddington
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“Mount Waddington” adopted in the 16th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 1919, as labelled on Boundary Commission Sheet 29, 1917. Form of name changed to “Waddington Peak” in 1951 to avoid confusion with Mount Waddington in the Coast Range (and named for the same person).

Alfred Penderell Waddington ( 1801-1872), British Columbia pioneer, in Yellowhead Pass. Waddington was born in London, educated in Paris and Germany, worked in France and Brazil, and was a partner in a grocery firm in California by 1858, when he went to Victoria to establish a branch of his firm. He sat in the British Columbia House of Assembly in 1861-2 and helped to draft the city charter in 1862. His book The Fraser mines vindicated; or, the history of four months (Victoria, 1858) may have been the first book printed in British Columbia. Waddington wrote it in the hope of checking the exodus of miners who had not succeeded in the first rush to the gold fields.

In 1864, Waddington attempted to build a road from Bute Inlet to the interior, an enterprise in which a party of his workmen were killed by the Chilcotin people, and through which he was ruined financially. He spent the rest of his life advocating a transcontinental railway and attempting to get a charter to build it. Sandford Fleming [1827–1915], chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, praised his planned route.

A vista is a view, especially one seen through a long and narrow opening. The feature was a camera station on the Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission survey, which worked through Yellowhead Pass in 1917.