Did your family live in British Columbia? Load your tree to see which of these places stand near where they lived. Try it with your own tree
British Columbia's Stop of Interest signs began in 1958 as a Centennial project, and the Ministry of Transportation and Transit says over 175 have been installed along the province's roads since. The Ministry's open dataset, last updated in July 2022, lists 174 signs, and 155 of them carry a sign text. Those 155 have permanent pages at TreeAlive, each with the text the Ministry records as the sign's current one and the Ministry's own location for it. The 19 signs the dataset lists without a text are not shown. The Ministry describes the program as currently inactive.
155 marker pages, on more than 83,000 historical map sheets. Stop of Interest program, BC Ministry of Transportation and Transit, credited on every page.
Every dot is a live page. Click one to preview it or add it to a road trip; many dots hold several markers each; click a busy spot to zoom in. Prefer a list? Browse all 155 markers by county.
TreeAlive maps family trees. When a visitor's ancestors lived in British Columbia, the Stop of Interest signs standing near those places surface automatically alongside their family's journey:
The Last Spike · near where a family lived at Craigellachie in the 1880s · what this marker records dates to 1885, inside the family’s years here
When a sign stands near a place in your own tree, you have a personal reason to go see it. Open the live demo tree, choose the Crossings tab, and turn on Historical Markers to see the experience working (the demo family’s markers are in Pennsylvania; a family with British Columbia roots sees these).
Browsing all 155 markers by province.
Scan: The Last Spike page