Avola is an unincorporated community in the

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province of

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, located in the

Thompson-Nicola Regional District The Thompson–Nicola Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Canada 2021 Census population was 143,680 and the area covers 44,449.49 square kilometres. The administrative offices are in the mai ...

. The community is located along

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, approximately 190 kilometres north of

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and 148 kilometres south of the highway's northern terminus at

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. The community was originally established as Stillwater Flats.G. P. V. Akrigg and Helen Akrigg, ''British Columbia Place Names: Third Edition''.

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, 2011. . p. 11. However, due to the existence of another Stillwater post office in the province, the new name Avola was selected when the community received its own post office in 1913. In 2015, the

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acquired 7.4 acres of wetland and forest land in the community to form a protected habitat for

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spawning."Nature Conservancy of Canada acquires salmon habitat in Avola". ''Clearwater Times'', October 6, 2015.

References

Populated places in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District {{ThompsonNicola-geo-stub