Denis Marshall’s toponymic study, Salmon Arm’s Historic Routes and the People Behind the Names, details the spatial distribution, evolution, and biographical origins of named trails, wagon routes, and surveyed corridors across Salmon Arm, Canoe, South Canoe, and Silver Creek. Marshall documents how nineteenth- and twentieth-century colonial road systems—often memorializing pioneer pre-emptors, orchardists, and civic officials—were mapped directly across ancient Indigenous trail networks and seasonal portages navigated by the Secwépemc. The text traces the development of early transit links prior to the adoption of a standardized municipal numbered grid system, preserving the vital geographic history of early homestead routes and valley settlement corridors.

British Columbia Salmon Arm Region, Historic routes, Names, Geographical, Names, Geographical British Columbia Salmon Arm, Roads British Columbia Salmon Arm History, Salmon Arm (B.C.) History, Local

Published in cooperation with the Salmon Arm Museum and Heritage Association.

Published in cooperation with the Salmon Arm Museum and Heritage Association.