Arrow Lakes Cemetery Listings
The Vernon & District Family History Society has catalogued the cemeteries of the Arrow Lakes Region.
Catalogued Cemeteries
- Arrow Lake Indian Cemetery
- Arrow Park
- East Arrow Park Cemetery
West Arrow Park Cemetery - Arrowhead Cemetery
- Burton
- Burton Community Cemetery
Burton Old Cemetery - Comaplix Cemetery
- Deer Park Cemetery
- Edgewood
- Edgewood Cememtery
Kirby Family Cemetery - Fauquier Cemetery
- Halcyon Hot Springs Cemetery
- Mount Cartier St. Ann's Cemetery
- Nakusp
- Glenbank Nakusp Cemetery
Hillcrest Cemetery / Nakusp Municipal Cemetery /
Nakusp Veterans Cemetery / Roman Catholic Cemetery - Needles Cemetery
- Renata Cemetery
- Trout Lake Cemetery
- Whatshan
- Whatshan Mennonite Cemetery
Whatshan Power Station Indian Cemetery
Geographical Location
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The Arrow Lakes in British Columbia, Canada, divided into Upper Arrow Lake and Lower Arrow Lake, are widenings of the Columbia River. The lakes are situated between the Selkirk Mountains to the east and the Monashee Mountains to the west. Beachland is fairly rare, and is interspersed with rocky headlands and steep cliffs. Mountain sides are heavily forested, and rise sharply to elevations around 2,600 metres.
Originally two lakes, the Arrow Lakes became one 230 km long lake when the reservoir caused by the 1960s construction of the Keenleyside Dam; at low water the two lakes remain distinct, connected by a fast-moving section known as the Narrows.[1] The lake stretches from just north of Castlegar in the south to Revelstoke in the north. Another hydroelectric development diverted Whatshan Lake from the Whatshan River directly into Arrow Lakes, just north of the Needles-Fauquier Ferry.
There are two free highway ferries across the Upper Arrow Lake: the Upper Arrow Lakes Ferry between Shelter Bay and Galena Bay at the northern end of Upper Arrow Lake; and the Needles Cable Ferry further south, on BC Hwy 6 between Nakusp and Vernon. There is also the Arrow Park Ferry, a cable ferry connecting East Arrow Park and West Arrow Park about 28 km south of Nakusp.
The Arrow Lakes are part of the traditional territory claims of the Sinixt, Okanagan and Ktunaxa peoples, though at the time of contact and during colonization only Sinixt lived along its shores.
With the construction of the High Arrow Dam in 1968 (renamed the Hugh Keenleyside Dam in 1969) the area north of the city of Castlegar to the ghost town of Arrowhead was flooded. Many people were displaced when the water began to rise in 1967 to make way for the second Columbia River Treaty Dam that was built to control the water levels downstream from Castlegar. The city of Trail and all riverside communities below the Canada-US border were spared the threat of continued flooding during the spring melts with the construction of this dam. The water storage also maximized power production downstream at large American dams located along the lower Columbia River. The loss of arable land in the Arrow Lakes Reservoir was devastating to the local population and remains a source of contention to this day.
Information sources:
www.wikipedia.org
www.virtualmusem.ca
For more information please, contact the Cemetery Committee