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.

Grand Trunk Pacific railway station at Dunster (Mile 70) was named by a railway inspector after Dunster, his home village in Somerset, England. The Dunster post office opened in 1915.

Croydon (flag station) adopted 23 May 1963, as labelled on BC map 3H, 1919, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Croydon (locality) 31 May 1983 on 83E/4.

The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station at Croydon (Mile 63) was named after the town of Croydon, England.

The name appears on the 1915 land pre-emptor’s map of the McBride area. Etter and McDougal Lumber operated an 80-man sawmill at Croydon until 1919, when a brush fire spread to the yard. Sandy McDougal allowed the Croydon school board to use an old bunk house for the school. Contributions from Croydon, England, made possible the construction of an Anglican Church and burial grounds in 1935.

The Croydon post office was open from 1917 to 1968.

The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station at Mile 126 west of the Yellowhead Pass appears as “Crescent Island” on a 1914 timetable, but by 1918 it was known as “Loos” after the site of a battle in the First World War.

Cariboo was the name of a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station at Mile 94, four miles west of McBride.

Wrigley’s British Columbia Directory, 1918:

CARIBOO: station and shingle mill on the G. T. P., 5 miles from McBride. No residents except shingle mill hands, numbering about 25. Local resources: Cariboo Lumber Co shingle mfrs, W N Jack managing owner.
Lawson C mixed farming
Lawson J mixed farming

Adopted in 1951 on Jasper Park (North) sheet (file J.1.34), as identified on Canadian National Railway timetables; name cancelled in 1989.

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station Mount Robson (railway point) had originally been located here, but the station by that name was relocated southward and the Canadian National Railway renamed the facility at this location “Alpland” in 1924.