Article: Horsefly? (Columbiana).(how the town was named, British Columbia)(Brief Article)

Horsefly, population 500 (www.horsefly.bc.ca), sits on the banks of central B.C.'s Horsefly River, which flows into Horsefly Lake.

By the 1930s, folks in Harper's Camp had wearied of their town's humble name, rooted in Thaddeus Harper's 1887 gold mine.

Postmistress Gretta Parminter scanned the federal government's final list of four ...

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