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Detailed description is McDiarmid Falls is a waterfall on Grouse Creek in Wells Gray Provincial Park, east-central British Columbia, Canada. It is located 100m downstream from Moul Falls and 150m upstream from Grouse Creek's confluence with the Clearwater River.Grouse Creek rises from snowmelt, a lake and springs at a pass between Trophy Mountain and Table Mountain. It flows 18km west before tumbling over Moul Falls and McDiarmid Falls. The creek drops a total of 150m in its last 1km as it has eroded into the escarpment of a volcanic plateau.NamingMcDiarmid Falls was named officially in 2000 and refers to Garfield and Cecile McDiarmid, a pioneer family of the Clearwater Valley. They moved to the area in 1944 and purchased 160 acres of land just south of Grouse Creek. In 1956 they purchased a separate property of 70 acres beside the Clearwater River and adjacent to both Moul Falls and McDiarmid Falls. Both waterfalls are just inside the expanded 1997 boundaries of Wells Gray Park. In the late 1940s, the McDiarmids established several cabins along the Clearwater River and their guiding business attracted many guests to the fabulous river fishing. In 1950, the McDiarmids started construction of Trophies Lodge which opened for business in 1953. Their guests stayed a night at Trophies Lodge, then were taken by horse down to the Clearwater River to stay in one of the fishing cabins for a week or longer. The McDiarmids prepared and served gourmet meals in this remote area and even provided nightly entertainment because Cecile was a trained opera singer. Some of their guests were renowned, including H.R. MacMillan, president of the forest company MacMillan Bloedel; he visited twice a year with an entourage of business friends and owned property on the Clearwater River from 1949 to 1972. When a logging road was built along the Clearwater River in 1965, the fishing was virtually destroyed within a few years. By 1973 the fishing cabins had been abandoned and the McDiarmids closed Trophies Lodge as a business, but continued to live in the large log building. Cecile died in 1986. Mac lived alone in his lodge until 1995 and died at the age of 92 in 1998.
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