Welcome to Valora ...
Although we found mention of Valora during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Valora was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..
We've added Valora to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Valora, please Contact Us.
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Valora might be (or was) located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time. The time zone in French: CST- Heure Normale du Centre (HNC), CDT- Heure Avancée du Centre (HAC).
Area Code for Valora: 807
Communities Also Named Valora ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Valora - it's located in Ontario.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Valora.
Communities near Valora ...
We have created a list of 9 communities that are near Valora.
- O'Briens Landing
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Watcomb
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watcomb
- Tannin
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tannin
- Umfreville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Reba
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reba
- Zarn
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zarn
- Quorn
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quorn
- Robinson
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson
- Ghost River
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Adding Valora to Our Gazetteer ...
As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.
The earliest source (so far) we've referenced which mentioned Valora was mentioned on a train schedule titled Canadian National Railroad Time Tables (October 1960).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Valora.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Valora and then turned west". While Valora could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Valora as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Valora could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |