Arawana B.C.

( photo from David Davies collection: UNBC Northern BC archives)

Arawana B.C. is located 171.0 miles from Hope on the Kettle Valley Railway.

Photograph from David Davies collection (circa 1970), depicts the CPR station at Arawana, 5 miles northeast of Penticton and at mile 125.7 on the Carmi Subdivision. The photo shows the ruins of the station house and Okanagan Lake in the background. The passing loop in the foreground has been disconnected and partially dismantled. The rear track was used once or twice weekly by the way-freight train between Penticton and Midway. The view is looking west. (from nbca.unbc.ca/index cpr-line-at-arawana)

( photo credit - from Barrie Sanford collection)

Arawana Section house photo – Mrs. Francis Millership is pictured in front of the Section house at Arawana, in her beautiful garden. Her husband, John Millership, was the section foreman for the KVR.

Arawana was an example of a whistle or flag stop, where the train did not stop unless the flag was placed out in the correct position, or the conductor/engineer on the train wanted to indicate that the train had a passenger or freight to unload.

Today, there is a road named Arawana but not much else remains of this stop.