British Columbia. Locality
On Canadian National Railway SE of McBride, between Eddy Creek and Raush Valley (railway point)
53.2364 N 120.0692 W — Map 093H01 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1911 (GTP map)
Name officially adopted in 1983
Official in BC – Canada
On Canadian National Railway SE of McBride, between Eddy Creek and Raush Valley (railway point)
53.2364 N 120.0692 W — Map 093H01 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1911 (GTP map)
Name officially adopted in 1983
Official in BC – Canada
83 miles west of the Yellowhead Pass on the Canadian National Railway
Mile 57 in Tete Jaune Subdivision (Red Pass to McBride as of 1977)
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station built in 1913
Mile 57 in Tete Jaune Subdivision (Red Pass to McBride as of 1977)
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station built in 1913
This locality appears on:
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map [ca. 1912]
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway timetable 1914
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map ca. 1918
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map 1919
Pre-emptor’s map Tête Jaune 3H 1919
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway stations
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map [ca. 1912]
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway timetable 1914
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map ca. 1918
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map 1919
Pre-emptor’s map Tête Jaune 3H 1919
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway stations
Eddy Station, 1947.
Robert Frear
Site of a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station (Mile 83) between Raush Valley and McBride.
In 1918 Eddy had three settlers, according to Wrigley’s Directory, dwindling to only a section crew by 1928. In the late 1930s it blossomed into a sawmill community until the late 1960s.
The Eddy Post Office was open from 1945 to 1947.
I remember this station was still standing in about ’63, but the CNR burned it down shortly thereafter.
— Robert Frear, Memories of Eddy, British Columbia.
References:
- Wrigley Directories, Limited. Wrigley’s British Columbia Directory. Vancouver: 1918. Internet Archive
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