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  • Location: British Columbia/Canada
  • Variant names: 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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