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     Thank you very much for your answer. I have passed the information on
     to the patron. I think she wants to pursue who exactly the owners
     were.
 
 
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Subject: Re: Twidwell Bend British Columbia
Author:  Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]> at SOS08410
Date:    7/19/96 12:35 PM
 
 
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The locality (rather than town) of Twidwell Bend in British Columbia
is at the confluence of the Pine and Sukunka rivers, in the Peace
River District near Chetwynd. In our records we have noted that it
was used on maps in 1949; it was also included (as a community) in
the "Gazetteer of Canada: British Columbia" in 1952 and has appeared
in subsequent editions.  It seems to have been named after the person
who owned these lots in the early 1930s.
 
Helen Kerfoot
Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names
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GeoNames for Canada:  http://www-nais.ccm.NRCan.gc.ca/cgndb/
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From: O=CCMAIL; DDA.TYPE=CCMAIL; DDA.VALUE=Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum
(060)MAPS-L(a)uga.cc.uga.edu(062) at internet on Fri, Jul 19, 1996 8:39
Subject: Twidwell Bend British Columbia
To: MAPS-L-uga.cc.uga.edu; Kerfoot, Helen
 
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     A patron has noticed that the town of Twidwell Bend in British
     Columbia only started appearing in the Rand McNally road atlas with
     the 1980 edition. It does not appear in the official BC gazetteer
     edition that I have from the 1970's. She would like to know when the
     town started or was named that and why it was named that or who it was
     named for.  Can anyone up there help please?