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Revelstoke, British Columbia/Canada Second Crossing A city and a mountain named after Edward Charles Baring (1828–97), Lord Revelstoke, the head of a British bank that helped to provide funding for the Canadian Pacific Railway which passed through here.

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Revelstoke , city (1991 pop. 7,729), SE British Columbia, Canada, on the Columbia River. The city is at the foot of the Selkirk Mts. and is the gateway to Mt. Revelstoke National Park. It is also a railroad division point and a distribution center for a mining and lumbering area.

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