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www.myratrestles.com Kelowna • • Canada The world-famous Myra Canyon is located In January 2003, the Myra Canyon section (from Mile 84.5 to Mile 90.5) approximately 18 kilometres southeast of down- of the Kettle Valley Railway was designated a National Historic Site. town Kelowna. Best access to the Canyon is by way of McCulloch Road and Myra Forest Service Dilworth Dr Road to Myra, the east entrance to the 18 trestles 97 Kelowna Airport 33 and two tunnels. Alternate (rougher) access to Downtown Kelowna Harvey Ave Ruth, the west entrance, is via June Springs Road 97 Springfield Rd and the Little White Forest Service Road. Myra Cooper Rd Dilworth Dr and Ruth are approximately 12 km apart. Springfield Rd 33

Benvoulin Rd The 2003 Mountain fire destroyed or East Kelown Rd Mission Creek damaged many of the trestles but they have all K.L.O. Rd been fully restored. The old railway bed can be K.L.O. Rd Rose Rd walked or cycled with ease, with spectacular McCulloch Rd views of the Canyon and Lake Okanagan along McCulloch Rd the way. The route is relatively level and there are no impediments to handicapped access. McCullochEast Road Kelowna oad R h oc The Myra Canyon section of the Kettle Valley Spiers Rd McCull Railway was built between 1912 and 1914. It M yr a F S Mathews Rd R o was part of a “Coast to Kootenay” railway line that ad

J linked Midway, in British Columbia’s Boundary un e S pr ing s Ro District, with the main ad line at Hope. The railway carried freight and pas-

K sengers through the Myra Canyon until passenger LO C ree service ended in 1964 and the last scheduled train k MYRA went through in 1973. The tracks were removed KVR Myra-Bellevue in 1980. Provincial Park

RUTH M y KVR ra 1 FS Ro “McCulloch’s Wonder” 18 a 2 d 15 L 17 it KVR In a truly outstanding feat of railway construction Myra-Bellevue tle W 16 Provincial Park h 14 it e 13 Joel’s Knob k engineering, KVR Chief Engineer Andrew F e Viewpoint S e r 12

R C o y T a le 11 McCulloch managed to locate, lay out, and d 3 o o P T 4 construct a railway directly through the Myra 10 9 8 5 Canyon by seemingly hanging the supporting 7 Prepared by: 012 6 Trail Murphy Shewchuk engineering works around the rim of the canyon, Trails BC 2004-09-02 KVR Kilometres several thousand feet above the canyon floor. On the whole length of the railway through the Myra Canyon only two tunnels and three deep rock cuts were required.

No sooner was the rail line open than the awe-inspiring works high up on the mountain side in the Myra Canyon were recognized as constituting a phenomenal feat of railway engineering and construction; and McCulloch’s assistant engineers began to refer to the Kettle Valley Railway as “McCulloch’s Wonder”.

Adapted with the permission of from the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada report prepared by Robert W. Passfield, Historian, Parks Canada Agency.