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 NINTLE - MOOS - CHIN Cairn - Vernon, BC, Canada Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 50° 15.827 W 119° 16.805
11U E 337496 N 5570447
This stone cairn bears a BC Heritage Marker on the south side of a traffic circle at 30th Avenue at 35th Street. It relates how the City of Vernon got its original, intermediate and final names.
Waymark Code: WMNE1F
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 02/24/2015
Views: 1
This is a somewhat weathered cairn which has a large BC heritage plaque mounted above a zinc plaque which acknowledges the sponsors of the cairn and signage. The heritage sign is dated 1971.
NINTLE - MOOS - CHIN
The Indian name for this area, Nintle - Moos - Chin, refers to the "jumping over - place where the creek narrows". After 1860, Oblate Fathers travelling from Kamloops to L. Anse au Sable, near Kelowna, built a rest house close to this crossing. Known as Centreville from 1869 the nearby community was renamed Vernon in 1887 to honour a local pioneer, and was incorporated as a city in 1892.
From the Marker
Cairn Location: Traffic circle, 30th Avenua and 31st Avenue, Vernon
Cairn Purpose: Other (please describe in description)
Type if different from above list: Heritage Marker
Types of rock: Cleaved granite on a concrete base
Cairn Condition: 
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