Malakwa is a settlement in
Shuswap Country
The Shuswap Country, or simply the Shuswap (pronounced /ˈʃuːʃwɑːp/) and called Secwepemcúl̓ecw in Shuswap language, Secwepemctsín, is a term used in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of British Columbia to refer ...
in the
Southern Interior of British Columbia
Southern may refer to:
Businesses
* China Southern Airlines, airline based in Guangzhou, China
* Southern Airways, defunct US airline
* Southern Air, air cargo transportation company based in Norwalk, Connecticut, US
* Southern Airways Express, M ...
, Canada, in the
Eagle River valley, along the
Trans-Canada Highway
The Trans-Canada Highway ( French: ; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean o ...
between
Sicamous
Sicamous is a district municipality in British Columbia located adjacent to the Trans-Canada Highway at the Highway 97A junction, where Mara Lake empties into Shuswap Lake via a short narrows. Sicamous is a resort town about halfway between Calg ...
and
Revelstoke. It had a population of 649 people in 2001.
The name comes from the
Chinook Jargon word for mosquito, adapted from the French ''le maringouin''.
References
*http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/DATA/cen01/profiles/detailed/39043206.pdf
*http://britishcolumbia.com/plan-your-trip/regions-and-towns/thompson-okanagan/malakwa/
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Designated places in British Columbia
Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia
Shuswap Country
Populated places in the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
Chinook Jargon place names
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