British Columbia / B.C. Postal History - 7 / 9 June 1920 - CANOUGH CREEK, B.C. (split ring / broken circle cancel / postmark) to Kamloops, B.C. (water card signed by George Henry Phillips)
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia directory) - CANOUGH CREEK - a Post Office and ranching settlement 24 miles north of Kamloops, in Kamloops Provincial Electoral District. Nearest railway, C. N. R. at Vinsulla, distant 2 1/2 miles, nearest telegraph C. P. R. and G. N. W. at Kamloops, 24 miles. Long distance phone at Conner's Ranch, Canough Creek. Local resources: Mixed farming and dairying. The population in 1918 was 50.
(article written in 1939 - Kamloops and Nicola Districts) The bridge from Kamloops, reaching the east side in the Indian reserve, connects with roads reaching up the North Thompson Valley and easterly through the Indian reserve, reaching north about 7 miles and like distance eastward. The valley lands, bottom, bench, and slope, are occupied and many good farms and orchards are cultivated under irrigation in Lower South Thompson and Heffley, Edwards, and Sullivan Creek Valleys. The valley-rim reaches to rocky hills, to east of which is a rolling and hilly upland area containing various depressions with variable areas of workable land. Excellent fruit and crops are grown in the valleys and stock ranged on grassy uplands. Some farms occupy lands well above the North Thompson River—along Edwards Creek at 2,300 feet above the main valley- bottom—but crops other than hay are not successful over 1,800 to 2,000 feet above the valley floor. Large part of the area is open and grass covered, and where timber patches occur they are open and afford areas of pasture. Heffley and Sullivan Creeks, like most other tributary streams, are in deep narrow valleys with benches and rolling lower slopes and steep upper slopes, the cultivated lands being mostly on the benches and rolling lower slopes. Heffley Creek Post Office is at the mouth of Heffley Creek and Canough Creek Post Office serves a ranching settlement a few miles up Sullivan Creek. A road reaches up Heffley and Edwards Creeks and up Sullivan Creek. The Heffley Creek-Edwards Creek Road crosses a divide and descends 2,300 feet to the upper part of Louis Creek Valley, down which a road continues to Louis Creek Post Office at the mouth, 36 miles north from Kamloops. Link to complete article - www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/pubdocs/bcdocs_holmes/arc_mar_2...
Knouff Lake - A Summer Post Office in Kamloops District, 9 miles from Vinsulla on the C.N.R. During the Winter months mail is served through the Canough Creek Post Office.
The Canough Creek Post Office was established - 1 July 1914 and closed - 15 November 1927 owing to the provision of rural mail delivery service via Heffley Creek RR No. 2.
sent from - / CANOUGH CREEK / JUN 7 / 20 / B.C / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer was proofed - 16 May 1914 - (RF E / now is a RF E2).
Water Card was addressed to: C. G. Cline / Division Engineer / C. Hydrometric Survey / Box 429 Kamloops, B.C.
arrival - / KAMLOOPS / JUN 9 / 930 M / 1920 / B.C. / HELP / PREVENT / FOREST FIRES / - slogan arrival - (first year of use).
Water card observation card signed on the back by the observer Geo. H. Phillips. He did water height observations on Sullivan Creek, B.C..
Water card signed by - George Henry Phillips
George Henry Phillips
Birth - 22 Dec 1878 in England
Death - 9 Aug 1921 (aged 42) in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Spouse - he was single
His father was - Henry William Phillips (in 1925 he was the proprietor of the Knouff Lake fishing resort)
His mother was - Margaret "Capstick" Phillips
The Phillips family immigrated to Canada in 1903.
British Columbia / B.C. Postal History - 7 / 9 June 1920 - CANOUGH CREEK, B.C. (split ring / broken circle cancel / postmark) to Kamloops, B.C. (water card signed by George Henry Phillips)
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia directory) - CANOUGH CREEK - a Post Office and ranching settlement 24 miles north of Kamloops, in Kamloops Provincial Electoral District. Nearest railway, C. N. R. at Vinsulla, distant 2 1/2 miles, nearest telegraph C. P. R. and G. N. W. at Kamloops, 24 miles. Long distance phone at Conner's Ranch, Canough Creek. Local resources: Mixed farming and dairying. The population in 1918 was 50.
(article written in 1939 - Kamloops and Nicola Districts) The bridge from Kamloops, reaching the east side in the Indian reserve, connects with roads reaching up the North Thompson Valley and easterly through the Indian reserve, reaching north about 7 miles and like distance eastward. The valley lands, bottom, bench, and slope, are occupied and many good farms and orchards are cultivated under irrigation in Lower South Thompson and Heffley, Edwards, and Sullivan Creek Valleys. The valley-rim reaches to rocky hills, to east of which is a rolling and hilly upland area containing various depressions with variable areas of workable land. Excellent fruit and crops are grown in the valleys and stock ranged on grassy uplands. Some farms occupy lands well above the North Thompson River—along Edwards Creek at 2,300 feet above the main valley- bottom—but crops other than hay are not successful over 1,800 to 2,000 feet above the valley floor. Large part of the area is open and grass covered, and where timber patches occur they are open and afford areas of pasture. Heffley and Sullivan Creeks, like most other tributary streams, are in deep narrow valleys with benches and rolling lower slopes and steep upper slopes, the cultivated lands being mostly on the benches and rolling lower slopes. Heffley Creek Post Office is at the mouth of Heffley Creek and Canough Creek Post Office serves a ranching settlement a few miles up Sullivan Creek. A road reaches up Heffley and Edwards Creeks and up Sullivan Creek. The Heffley Creek-Edwards Creek Road crosses a divide and descends 2,300 feet to the upper part of Louis Creek Valley, down which a road continues to Louis Creek Post Office at the mouth, 36 miles north from Kamloops. Link to complete article - www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/pubdocs/bcdocs_holmes/arc_mar_2...
Knouff Lake - A Summer Post Office in Kamloops District, 9 miles from Vinsulla on the C.N.R. During the Winter months mail is served through the Canough Creek Post Office.
The Canough Creek Post Office was established - 1 July 1914 and closed - 15 November 1927 owing to the provision of rural mail delivery service via Heffley Creek RR No. 2.
sent from - / CANOUGH CREEK / JUN 7 / 20 / B.C / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer was proofed - 16 May 1914 - (RF E / now is a RF E2).
Water Card was addressed to: C. G. Cline / Division Engineer / C. Hydrometric Survey / Box 429 Kamloops, B.C.
arrival - / KAMLOOPS / JUN 9 / 930 M / 1920 / B.C. / HELP / PREVENT / FOREST FIRES / - slogan arrival - (first year of use).
Water card observation card signed on the back by the observer Geo. H. Phillips. He did water height observations on Sullivan Creek, B.C..
Water card signed by - George Henry Phillips
George Henry Phillips
Birth - 22 Dec 1878 in England
Death - 9 Aug 1921 (aged 42) in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Spouse - he was single
His father was - Henry William Phillips (in 1925 he was the proprietor of the Knouff Lake fishing resort)
His mother was - Margaret "Capstick" Phillips
The Phillips family immigrated to Canada in 1903.