After a recent inquiry about the source of the name of Paradise Meadows, I found the following info on the BC Geographical Place Names Index - the meadows were "so named by Clinton S. Wood, who saw these meadows when locating the Dove Creek trail in 1928."
An excellent biography of Clinton Wood has been compiled on Lindsay Elms' history website.
Clinton Wood & Geoffrey Capes, another member of the Comox District Mountaineering Club, sought out an alternate route up to the Plateau area, going up Dove Creek to its source, Anderson Lake, then beyond "into unknown country".
Much of the Dove Creek Trail would now be overlain by the present Mount Washington Road (Strathcona Parkway). The Dove Creek Trail eventually reached the Paradise Meadows area at the south end of Battleship Lake. In those days, there would have been no trails through the boggy meadows, without the boardwalk which allows access today.
It would be an interesting project to map the old trail onto current satellite maps!
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