Needles, British Columbia

Needles
Landing
Needles is located in British Columbia
Needles
Needles
Location of Needles in British Columbia
Coordinates: 49°52′24″N 118°06′03″W / 49.87333°N 118.10083°W / 49.87333; -118.10083
Country Canada
Province British Columbia
Regional DistrictCentral Kootenay
Area code(s)250, 778, 236, & 672
Highways Highway 6

Needles is an unincorporated locality on the west shore of Lower Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.[1] The western terminal for the Needles Ferry to Fauquier, the landing on Highway 6 is 108 kilometres (67 mi) east of Lumby, and 60 kilometres (37 mi) southwest of Nakusp.[2]

Name origin

The landing was formerly known as The Needles from the long thin sand spits that stretched out into the lake, but Needles became more widely accepted after 1906. The former remained the official name of the narrows.[3]

Former settlement

Needles was an area of fruit trees[4] and scrub farming, with the ferry operating since 1913.[5] The Canadian Pacific Railway steamers on the Arrowhead–Robson route served the landing.[6] However, the Needles Ranch was on the east side of the lake at Fauquier.[3] In the early 1930s, a post office, general store, and school served the 200 residents of Needles.[7]

Flooded

The original Needles townsite was submerged when the reservoir for the Keenleyside Dam flooded the area in 1968. The ferry terminals on both sides of the lake were rebuilt at the time.[3] Established on higher ground in 1932, the cemetery is all that remains.[8]

Accidents

In 2019, a ferry crew observed a submerged pickup truck just off the Needles ferry landing. Police divers recovered the body of a 60-year-old man.[9] That year, a 35-year-old man, who abandoned his pickup truck at Fauquier, was missing for over a year, before his remains were discovered along the shoreline to the north.[10]

Services

Plum Hollow Camping is about 2 kilometres (1 mi) north on the gravel road.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Needles (landing)". BC Geographical Names.
  2. ^ "Needles". www.ourbc.com.
  3. ^ a b c "Nelson Star, 30 Jan 2016". www.nelsonstar.com. January 31, 2016.
  4. ^ "Calgary Herald, 19 Oct 1907". www.newspapers.com. p. 10. ….two beautiful tracts of fruit lands, the one situated at Nakusp on Upper Arrow Lake, the other at Needles on Lower Arrow lake….dividing….into farms of from 10 to 20 acres each…
  5. ^ The Backroad Chronicles: Adventure & History in British Columbia , p. 101, at Google Books
  6. ^ "1918 BC Directory". www.bccd.vpl.ca.
  7. ^ "The lake route of British Columbia for tourists: featuring the Arrow Lakes District". www.open.library.ubc.ca. Arrow Lakes District Board of Trade. 1931. p. 27.
  8. ^ "Needles Cemetery". www.vdfhs.com.
  9. ^ "Nelson Star, 10 Dec 2019". www.trailtimes.ca. December 10, 2019.
  10. ^ "Nelson Star, 15 Oct 2020". www.nelsonstar.com. October 15, 2020.
  11. ^ "Fauquier". www.ourbc.com.


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