Hoochekoo

Have the pre-spring blues.

got you down? -
Maybe this is the time to
bone up on a little .

, says the B.C.
Automobile Association, in |
' preparation for the next -
cocktail party and for your
summer vacation here at

- home.

party you,
intend to visit Hoochekoo
Creek this summer? It has a
kind of ring about it, doesn't.
it, that the Saskatchewan
River somehow lacks.

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Creek? Both are in New.

Brunswick.

It has been said that many
motorists miss the high
points of the prairies by
winking at
moment.-Fhat’ must be why

so few remember Winking

Point, “Manitoba.-
Committee Punch Bowi

sounds like the name of a:

place where retired senators

soak in hot springs. But it's

really a round lake at the top
of the Athabasca Pass on the
Alberta-British Columbia
border, advises the BCAA
and its name refers to ‘the

care te a

BACK IN B.C. you will find historic accommodation for ‘the traveller at the Hotel
Quilchena, located in the heart of Nicola Valley’ s cattle country, about 20 km northeast

_ Me Down,
the _ wrong

is where it’s at

Seldom and a Little Seldom.
Then there is Seldom Come
By and Come By chance.

Where else would you find “

Run By Guess Island, a Blow
a Bleak Joke
Cove and Annicopsquotch
Mountains?. And that’s not

confusing? Not to the
people of Confusion Bay.

A, final reminder to? you
when you're name dropping
at that cocktail party

don't be caught with your
Pronunciation down in this

of Merritt on Highway 5. The hotel is open from May to October. [Murphy Shewchuck

photo]

In a country with as rich
and diverse ai cultural
heritage as Canada’s, there
are any number of places
with fascinating names, says
the auto club. Our map is
dotted with the names of
Indian chiefs, European
Cities, settlers, noblemen,
rogues and geographic
oddities. Then there are the

eccentric names which are
truly and inexplicably
Canadian.

How would you like to go
for a paddle through the
Push and Be Damned
Rapids, or undertake a little
muckraking in Slingdung

London Committee of the
old Hudson's Bay Company
which existed in the fur
trading days. 5
Alberta boasts an Em-
barras Portage and a Head-
Smashed-In (that was a
buffalo, not a man). .

B.C. has a Peep O-Day,
Nova Scotia has Ecum
Secum and Quebec a Saint-
Louis-du-Ha! Ha!

Newfoundland takes the
prize, of course, for the most
peculiar collection of place
names anywhere in Canada.
It has a False Girdle, a

bilingual, multi-national
country of ours. The people
of Bienfait, Saskatchewan
call it “Been-Fate” and
Kejimkujik National Park
comes out as “Ked-Jee-Ma-
Coo-Jee” in Nova Scotia.
Does Apohaqui, N.B. look
like Apo-Hawk? That’s what
they say in the cast.

As a final shot in the
conversation and one that's

‘bound to wow everyone,

remember to refer to
refugees from Moose Jaw as
Moosichappishanissippians.
It's always a show stopper
and there are a lot of them
out in B.C.

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