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On his first impression of the Nehoialpitku in 1860 (the First Nations name for the Kettle River), one Lieut. Wilson of the British Boundary Commission wrote... "August 31st. We started off to continue our journey to Colville and passing through the town of Rock Creek followed down the stream of the Nehoialpitku. Oh! Valley of the Nehoialpitku, how shall I sing thy praises? Those shady groves abounding with grouse! Those grassy plains inviting a gallop! Those green hazel trees overloaded with nuts. Those deep pools where monster trout only wait the coming of the much loved grasshopper to transfer themselves to the frying pan & lastly the silvery stream now babbling along through meadows of the most luxuriant grass, then forcing itself through mountains of gneiss, whose blue rocks tower overhead, left an impression on me which I shall never forget..." - from The Kettle Valley Irrigated Fruitlands Ltd., 1907-1928, by Ted Gane.