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Gerrard is a ghost town in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.[1] The settlement was at the south end of Trout Lake, east of Upper Arrow Lake.[2]

Gerrard
Gerrard
Location of Gerrard in British Columbia
Coordinates: 50°30′30″N 117°16′14″W
Country Canada
Province British Columbia

Honouring banker George Bentley Gerrard, prior names were Selkirk and Twin Falls.[3] The Canadian Pacific Railway's (CPR) Kootenay and Arrowhead Railway from Lardeau northwest to the terminus at Gerrard opened in 1902, where it connected with vessels on Trout Lake.[4] At the time, the Great Northern Railway commenced a parallel line, but soon abandoned the project, and CPR never extended its line farther northwest in the direction of Arrowhead.[5] The company abandoned the Lardeau–Gerrard line in 1942.[6]

Although comprising several scattered residences, the old settlement has disappeared with time. A campground exists about a kilometre to the northwest.[3]



Footnotes


  1. Basque Garnet (1982), British Columbia Ghost Town Atlas. Sunfire Publications Limited.
  2. "Gerrard (former community)". BC Geographical Names.
  3. "Nelson Star, 8 Sep 2014". www.nelsonstar.com.
  4. Meyer 1967, p. 22.
  5. Meyer 1967, p. 62.
  6. Meyer 1967, p. 27.



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