Loos is a locality on the
Canadian National Railway
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CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue a ...
west of
McBride, British Columbia, immediately next to
Crescent Spur and the confluence of the Morkill River with the
Fraser River
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. Loos Post Office opened 30 March 1916, named in recognition of the
Battle of Loos
The Battle of Loos took place from 1915 in France on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front, during the First World War. It was the biggest British attack of 1915, the first time that the British used Chemical weapons in World War I, ...
of
World War I
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. The first postmaster was Mrs. A Martin. The post office closed 11 July 1951, after most of the residents had moved to Crescent Spur. The
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station here was renamed from "Crescent Island" to Loos later in 1916. The community experienced flooding in 1936.
Via Rail
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As of December 2023, Via Rail operates 406 trains per week across eight ...
's
Jasper – Prince Rupert train
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calls at the
Loos railway station.
The original settlers were Ole Olson Leboe, originally of
Vagland,
Norway
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, and his wife Anna Maria. Around 1917 their sons built the Leboe Lumber Company sawmill here on the banks of the
Fraser River
The Fraser River () is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain (Canada), Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for , into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of V ...
. It was destroyed by fire, and rebuilt several times.
References
BCGNIS Geographical Name Query
Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia
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