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(On Highway 3, 3 miles west of Keremeos on the Similkameen River)
This old bridge and the sections of abandoned grade are mute reminders of the Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway & Navigation Co. A Great Northern subsidiary, it was pushed into the promising Hedley Princeton mining area in 1907-14. In 1916 by agreement with the Kettle Valley Railroad, its operations were stopped west of Princeton.
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(22 miles east of Hope)
A bold venture, this trail crossed the mountains of southern BC, and kept the wealth of a new land from flowing to the USA. Planned by the Royal Engineers, and built in 1860-61 by Edgar Dewdney, a young engineer, it led over the mountains to Princeton. After completion to the Rockies in 1865 it served for 25 years as a vital route to the Coast.
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(Overlooking Moberly Marsh, about 8 miles north of Golden)
In 1871, Walter Moberly, in charge of surveys for the mountain division of the projected Canadian trans-continental railway, built log cabins east of here for survey party ‘S’. The preliminary surveys through Howse Pass were abandoned in 1872 in favour of the Yellowhead route, but in the end the railway used Kicking Horse Pass. Moberly Marsh and Moberly Peak honour this early surveyor in British Columbia.
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(16 miles east of Hope)
A wagon road across BC – this was the ambitious scheme of the Royal Engineers in the late 1860s as miners clamored for better access to the Southern Interior.
Sent from England, these military engineers replaced the first 25 miles of the Dewdney Trail with a wagon road. Their work halted when attention shifted to the gold-rich Cariboo.
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(10 miles west of Revelstoke)
In 1865, Walter Moverly, government engineer, was searching for a railway route through these rugged Monashee Mountains.
He shot at an eagle’s nest, and observed the birds fly into a river valley. Following them he discovered this low pass which now carries the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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