Bighorn, British Columbia
human settlement in British Columbia, Canada
Bighorn is an unincorporated settlement and locality in the Thompson Canyon in British Columbia, Canada. It is a few miles south of Spences Bridge, British Columbia. The name originated as the name of a whistlestop on the Canadian Pacific Railway and is a reference to the heyday of big game hunting in the area, where Bighorn Sheep were once abundant and the region around Spences Bridge was one of the foci of the hunting industry in British Columbia.
“Bighorn, British Columbia” enters the record as human settlement in British Columbia, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bighorn, British and Columbia can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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