Mara

MARA, pop 327, an AGRICULTURAL community on the west bank of the Shuswap R, 14 km east of SALMON ARM, is just south of Mara Lk, a popular summer recreation spot lined with resorts and campgrounds. A stagecoach stop between SICAMOUS and VERNON, it was later a station on the SHUSWAP & OKANAGAN RWY. A WWI internment camp for enemy aliens was located nearby in 1915–17. The lake is named after John A. MARA, who was among the OVERLANDERS of 1862 and who later became an entrepreneur and served as...

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