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Brookmere
Brookmere, British Columbia is an unincorporated settlement in the Nicola Country of British Columbia. It is reached by the recently paved Coldwater Road from Merritt or from Exit 256 on the Coquihalla Highway. It can also be reached via gravel road from Aspen Grove or Tulameen.
==History==
Brookmere was founded as a divisional point on the Kettle Valley Railway and the Great Northern controlled VV&E shortly after 1916 when the KVR line was extended through the Coquihalla Pass to Hope. Because the Great Northern never operated trains as planned on the line, the VV&E facilities at Brookmere (besides the station) were never built.〔
Burrows, R.G. 1984. Railway Mileposts of British Columbia. Volume II. The Southern Routes from the Crowsnest to the Coquihalla. ISBN 0-9690617-1-4〕 It was originally named Otter Summit. The settlement and the nearby lake and creek that feeds the settlement's water supply were named after Harry Brook, a rancher that worked the surrounding land before World War I.
The town had many buildings from the KVR and VV&E era, such as a water tower, turntable, three stall roundhouse (replaced with a 4 stall one when an engine's boiler exploded in 1947), section house and a unique Great Northern designed station that was situated between the KVR and planned VV&E yards. Unfortunately many buildings have been lost to fire, such as the roundhouse, which consisted of a turntable and several buildings for steam engines.
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