Malakwa
Place in British Columbia, Canada
50°55′59″N 118°48′04″W / 50.93306°N 118.80111°W / 50.93306; -118.80111 (2021)
Malakwa is a settlement in Shuswap Country in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, in the Eagle River valley, along the Trans-Canada Highway between Sicamous and Revelstoke.[1]
The name comes from the Chinook Jargon word for mosquito, adapted from the French le maringouin.[2]
Further reading
- Abercrombie, Annie Dorothy (1985). Sicamous, Mara to Three Valley. Self-published. pp. 468–502.
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