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Dunster is a small farming community in the
Robson Valley The Robson Valley is a geographic region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, comprising the section of the Rocky Mountain Trench that lies southeast of the city of Prince George following the Fraser River to the Yellowhead Pass. The n ...
region of
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, Canada. It is located 31 km east of
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and 37 km west of Tête Jaune Cache, and 10 km north of
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. Dunster is home to one of the few remaining, original and least altered
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental railway running from Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, a Pacific coast port. East of Winnipeg the line continued as the National ...
stations.


History

Dunster was named after
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,
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. Railroad manager, H.P. Hinton chose the name from a list provided to him by Josiah Wedgwood. The station was constructed in 1913. The Dunster Post Office was opened 1 December 1915 with George Hall as the first postmaster. In 1921 Mrs A. McDonald became postmaster.


Climate


See also

* Dunster Fine Arts School * Dunster CN railway station


External links


Vanishing British Columbia: Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Stations





Robson Valley Music Festival


References

Robson Valley Regional District of Fraser–Fort George Populated places on the Fraser River Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia Populated places in the Regional District of Fraser–Fort George {{FraserFortGeorge-geo-stub