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After the Keremeos school opened, Similkameen student numbers dwindled. For lengthy periods, the school was not open, either unable to attract a minimum number of pupils or a teacher. However, an assumption that the school finally closed in 1916, when the Cawston school was established, is incorrect,
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47 hectares (117 acres) across several reserves for a right-of-way in 1905. The next year, the band chief complained the expropriation assessment grossly undervalued the land. Local rancher R.C. Armstrong supported the complaint. However, a review did not change the original compensation package. The
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Prior to the erection of the Armstrong rail bridge in 1907, the Armstrong family operated a ferry for many years. In 1931, the present Chopaka Road bridge was planned. Unclear is whether pedestrians had used the rail bridge up to this time or the public Chopaka bridge, known to exist at least during
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In 1935, the former schoolhouse burned down. In 1939, the post office closed. By this time, Similkameen ceased to be mentioned as a place. The McCurdy Private Cemetery, on the former McCurdy property, includes internments of non-family residents. The abandoned McCurdy cabin, once known as the first
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If not already more narrowly defined as a location, government funding for the Similkameen school construction made it more precise by the early 1890s. The one room 7-by-11-metre (24 by 36 ft) school was built about 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) north of the settlement on the southern boundary of
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the McCurdy ranch. School was held in the McCurdy cabin for three months from September 1892, because the schoolhouse was not finished. R.C. Armstrong's ranch, 19 kilometres (12 mi) south of Keremeos, formed the southern boundary of the Similkameen school district. By 1897, a sawmill existed.
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and tracklaying resumed on the other side. Days later, high water took out part of the falsework. In August, temporary work was completed, then partially damaged by fire, and then repaired. Finished in September, the permanent bridge, which was about 10 kilometres (6 mi) north of the border,
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submitted that the VV&E had paid inadequate compensation and that the abandoned right-of-way should revert to reserve status. The next year, the claim was rejected. In 2003, an enquiry into this rejection began. In 2008, the Commission determined the assessment per acre was grossly
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To address the predicament when high water made crossing the river impractical, a road was constructed in 1911 on the west shore to the border, which provided the Armstong family and other residents with an outlet. The reconstruction and paving of
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disproportionate to non-reserve lands and recommended adequate compensation be negotiated. Since the VV&E easement terminated no later than 1985, the Commission recommended that this strip be legally restored to being fully reserve land.
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Bob Stevenson, a miner arrived in 1860 but soon moved on. He turned over his land to Daniel McCurdy and his family, who came about 1885. That year, R.C. Armstrong settled on lands directly abutting the Lower Similkameen reserves.
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The wooden howe truss that underwent extensive repairs in 1956–57 was assumedly the present bridge. In 1964–65, the highway was paved. Through traffic to Osoyoos was restored in 1965 with the completion of the highway over
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The establishment of the international border in 1846 created a barrier within a traditional territory. The Similkameen River mouth (in the US) was an important winter village site for the Okanagans (living in Canada).
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Similkameen was also one of the earliest border outposts in the interior and Daniel McCurdy was for four years customs officer in the 1910s. By that time, the Armstrong family operated a significant sheep ranch.
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By the 1960s, a locked gated blocked the former cross-border road beside the railway track. Formerly, locals had moved freely both ways across the border without encountering any bureaucracy.
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because 12 pupils were still enrolled in 1918–19. To not have contravened government policy at the time, the few First Nations children who attended may have been mixed race.
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In 2015, the new administrative and community building for the Lower Similkameen Band opened on the hillside in the vicinity of the former Similkameen train station.
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Incidents of genocidal tribal warfare occurred in the South Similkameen during the early 1700s. The Okanagan-speaking peoples progressively replaced the
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The absence of an indigenous school suggests generations were never schooled or attended a church boarding school in Washington State.
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Daniel McCurdy was the inaugural postmaster 1906–1919. The Similkameen post office was about 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) south of
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turned an indigenous hunter by this name into stone or the mountain represents a transformed maiden. Another translation is
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staged a protest, cutting the barbed wire in this locality and making a symbolic crossing of the boundary line.
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This section is about the former south Similkameen community. For the former middle Similkameen community, see
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passed through the area. A wagon road later followed the east shore of the river toward the border.
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north from Keremeos, which was completed in 1948, largely diverted traffic away from Similkameen.
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Lower Similkameen Indian Band, Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway Right of Way Inquiry Panel
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In 1890, a new RC church was built. The reserves were surveyed in 1889 and listed in 1902. The
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In 2021, the serviceable Chopaka church burned to the ground in a suspected arson incident.
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In late 1870s or early 1880s, a Roman Catholic (RC) church was built at Chopaka. In 1878,
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set aside the land for the reserves, which were amended and increased by his successor
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In 2009, when the requirement to have a passport to cross the border was implemented,
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track, unused since the Armstrong bridge washout in 1972, was abandoned in 1985.
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A history of the Okanagan: Indians and whites in the settlement era, 1860–1920
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Lower Similkameen school, is now considered to be within the Chopaka area.
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comprised two 26.7-metre (87.5 ft) and one 45.7-metre (150 ft)
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railway construction included moving the church from the right-of-way.
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In 1936, the wooden rail bridge was destroyed by fire and rebuilt.
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in the 1880s. The border ones are called Chopaka 7 and 8.
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Commissioner of Land and Works annual report, 1902–03
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(1948). 1833:(Report). p. B137. 1822:(Report). p. E101. 1141:, pp. 15–16 (7–8). 861:Okanagan Circuit, 1918. 858:VV&E rail line map. 62:Location of Chopaka in 1982:: 118, 120 (116, 118). 1945:(Report). p. C32. 1927:(Report). p. J51. 1907:www.keremeosreview.com 1873:(Report). p. B14. 1151:Loza, Patrick (2019). 341:Great Northern Railway 315:Lower Similkameen Band 300: 271:Gilbert Malcolm Sproat 210:lies to the east. Off 93:48.99972°N 119.71778°W 2372:central.bac-lac.gc.ca 978:Harvey, A.G. (1948). 921:BC Geographical Names 890:"Standard Oil BC map" 866:"Rand McNally BC map" 298: 2205:, p. 111 (104). 2040:: 119–121 (117–119). 948:: 114–115 (110–111). 940:Briley, Ann (1964). 916:"Chopaka (locality)" 147:Okanagan-Similkameen 98:48.99972; -119.71778 2138:. 25 November 2016. 2098:. 25 November 2016. 2071:"1897 BC Directory" 2051:Daly, E.M. 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Chopaka 7
Chopaka, British Columbia is located in British Columbia
British Columbia
48°59′59″N 119°43′04″W / 48.99972°N 119.71778°W / 48.99972; -119.71778
Province
British Columbia
Region
Similkameen Country
Regional District
Okanagan-Similkameen
Area codes
250
778, 236, & 672
Highway
Highway 3
Similkameen
British Columbia
Canada–United States border
Similkameen River
Nighthawk–Chopaka Border Crossing
BC Highway 3
Princeton
Penticton
Chopaka Mountain
Coyote
soapstone
pipes
Stuwix
Thompson
Gilbert Malcolm Sproat

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