Enderby

ENDERBY, city, pop 2,818 (2001), lies in the rolling hills of the Shuswap Valley about halfway between VERNON and SICAMOUS. First settled in 1866, the tiny community was known variously as Belvedere; Little Prairie; Fortune's Landing, after A.L. Fortune, the first settler; and Lambley's Landing, after 2 brothers who owned most of the original townsite. In 1887 it adopted its present name, taken from a place mentioned in a poem by Jean Ingelow, "High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire." The city...

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