Westwold, British Columbia

Westwold is an unincorporated settlement in the Interior of British Columbia. [1] A small farming and logging community, it is located between Kamloops and Vernon on Highway 97. The original name for the settlement was "Grand Prairie".[2] Glacial tills near the townsite of Westwold have provided fossils from the Sangamon interglacial period 130,000 years ago.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Westwold (community)". BCGNIS. http://archive.ilmb.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=21021. Retrieved 3 February 2011. 
  2. ^ Baxter, Angus (1997). In search of your Canadian roots: tracing your family tree in Canada. Genealogical Publishing Co. p. 120. http://books.google.ca/books?id=MOQzgxViSa0C&pg=PA120&dq=Westwold&hl=en&ei=-oJKTc7uBcrUgQevntz_Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAjge#v=onepage&q=Westwold&f=false. 
  3. ^ Ludvigsen, Rolf (1996). Life in stone: a natural history of British Columbia's fossils. Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Press. p. 271. ISBN 0-7748-0577-3. http://books.google.ca/books?id=HHoOlKqsFn4C&pg=PA271&dq=Westwold&hl=en&ei=331KTcfbEIqtgQff0aAV&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CE4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Westwold&f=false.