Monte Creek is an unincorporated community in the Thompson region of south central British Columbia.

Arriving in 1862, Jacob Duck and Alex Pringle pre-empted on both sides of river, farmed, and ran a roadhouse.

[3] The Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) renamed the station as Monte Creek around that time.

[11] After her husband Andrew died (see #Railways), John's daughter Annie Smith took over as the Monte Creek postmaster 1912–1945.

[24] The Bostock family gifted St. Peter's Anglican Church, which opened Christmas Sunday, 1926.

[25] Consecrated the following July and now accessed from Old Ferry Rd (immediately south of the railway crossing), planned highway developments in the late 1970s threatened the site.

[26] Although volunteer firefighters prevented a 1951 fire from spreading to the former hotel, the general store was damaged,[34] later became apartments (see #Railways), and has heritage significance.

[35] The store likely closed permanently, relocating the post office[12] to an Esso service station opened around this time[36] at the then Highway 97 intersection.

[42][43] In 1963, a lightning strike set alight the two-storey former hotel, leaving only the two tall brick chimneys standing.

[48] In August 1885, the eastward advance of the CP rail head passed through the locality,[49] regular service having started as far east as Kamloops the previous month.

[50] In May 1906, two members of Bill Miner's gang boarded the tender of a westbound CP passenger train at Ducks and ordered the train be stopped at Mile 116 (about 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of the present Monte Creek railway crossing and 2 kilometres (1 mi) east of the British Columbia Wildlife Park, where the green commemorative plaque is located).

[56] During a five-minute water stop, the Duke of Edinburgh stayed in the locomotive cab, while Princess Elizabeth came out onto the rear observation platform of their car and chatted with children in the crowd.

[57] Built in 1887, the standard-design Plan H-I-20-6 (Bohi's Type 1) split level station building,[58] unused by passengers since the 1930s, was destroyed in 1960 by spontaneous combustion in a coal pile.

[59] In April 1925, the southeastward advance of the Canadian National Railway (CN) rail head began at the junction.

[90] Campbell Creek to Monte Lake is the only CN grade in BC that required pusher locomotives.

[92] After the 1841 murder of Samuel Black, chief factor at Fort Kamloops, his coffin was transported for burial.

On crossing a log bridge at the creek, the coffin fell into the water and is believed to have been interred in the vicinity.

[93] One theory places the gravesite on a hillside about 400 metres (437 yd) east of Monte Creek.

[95] In 1872, Barnard's Express established a weekly stage on the new wagon road to this ranch via Kamloops and Ducks.

However, the mail continued to be carried on this final leg by horseback until the stage route was extended to the lake in 1881.

[100][101] To the south, the 97 veered farther eastward in 1947 to eliminate the CN railway crossing in the vicinity of Duck Meadow.