Pixton RoadHistorical Map Story Title

Pixton Road was named for the Pixton family probably sometime after 1910.

Percy Walter Pixton and his Virginia born wife Ella Lillian Howver Pixton arrived in BC in 1909 where their first child, Andrew Cunliff was born. P.W. as he was known, was from a wealthy family in Liverpool. In his twenties, he and his brother Eric traveled to Argentina where they worked on a sheep ranch. Unfortunately, the adventure led to malaria for P.W. from which he never fully recovered. When he was well enough to travel, he returned to England.

Following a brief stay in his home country, P.W. journeyed to the United States where he met and married his auburn haired Ella. Searching for the best climate for P.W.'s health, they lived briefly in Mexico before traveling north to Canada.

The family lived and farmed at the end of Pow Road until their move to a large house above Pixton Road. Percy planted an orchard, became an insurance agent for the Royal Insurance Company in Vancouver, and he and Ella became involved in community activities. They had a second son, William Paulsel. Paulsel was a family name on his mother's side.

In his late teens Cunliff moved to California where he became involved in the fruit industry, married and raised a family. Bill married too but remained in the Community.

Their first house burned to the ground. Rather than move from the area, they relocated a little further north to the lakeshore at the end of the road where they built a new home.

Percy died in Kelowna in 1963 at 86 years of age. Ella died six years later at 92. Cunliffe died in Kern Country at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in l971. Bill died a few years later in Kelowna.



Source: Carr's Landing, A History by Penny Baughen