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Douglas Road

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The Douglas Road, a.k.a. the Lillooet Trail, Harrison Trail or Lakes Route, was a goldrush-era transportation route from the British Columbia Coast to the Interior (NB another route known as the Lillooet Trail was the Lillooet Cattle Trail, which used some of the same route but was built 25 years later). [1]

61 relations: Anderson Lake (British Columbia), Birken, British Columbia, Birkenhead Peak, Birkenhead River, British Columbia gold rushes, Bute Inlet, Camelsfoot Range, Cariboo camels, Cariboo Gold Rush, Cayoosh Creek, Cayoosh Pass, Cayoosh Range, Church of the Holy Cross (Skatin), D'Arcy, British Columbia, Dewdney Trail, Douglas Ranges, Enterprise (1862), Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, Gates Lake, Gates River, Gates Valley, Gustavus Blin Wright, Harrison Lake, Harrison River, History of British Columbia, History of immigration to Canada, Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail, Index of British Columbia-related articles, James Douglas (governor), Le Jeune Road, Lil'wat First Nation, Lillooet, Lillooet Cattle Trail, Lillooet Country, Lillooet Lake, Lillooet River, List of historical ships in British Columbia, Little Lillooet Lake, Mount Breakenridge, N'Quatqua, Nicola (Okanagan leader), Okanagan Trail, Old Cariboo Road, Pemberton Pass, Pemberton, British Columbia, Philip Henry Nind, Port Douglas, British Columbia, River Trail (British Columbia), Sea-to-Sky Corridor, Seton Lake, ..., Seton Portage, Seton Portage Historic Provincial Park, Shalalth, Skatin First Nations, Skookumchuck Hot Springs, Steamboats of the Lower Fraser River and Harrison Lake, Vessels of the Lakes Route, William Pinchbeck, Williams Lake, British Columbia, Won Alexander Cumyow, Yale, British Columbia. Expand index (11 more) »

Anderson Lake (British Columbia)

Anderson Lake is located about 25 miles North of the town of Pemberton, British Columbia and is about 28.5 km² (11 sq mi) in area and around 21 km (13 mi) in length.

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Birken, British Columbia

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Birkenhead Peak

Birkenhead Peak, commonly known as Mount Birkenhead and sometimes Birkenhead Mountain and also Mount Birken, 2506 m (8222 ft) prominence: 1781 m, is a mountain in the Gates Valley region of the Lillooet Country of the South-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Birkenhead River

The Birkenhead River, formerly known as the Portage River, the Pole River and the Mosquito River, is a major tributary of the Lillooet River, which via Harrison Lake and the Harrison River is one of the major tributaries of the lower Fraser River.

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British Columbia gold rushes

British Columbia gold rushes were important episodes in the history and settlement of European and Chinese peoples in western Canada.

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Bute Inlet

Bute Inlet is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast.

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Camelsfoot Range

The Camelsfoot Range is a sub-range of the Chilcotin Ranges subdivision of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia.

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Cariboo camels

The Cariboo camels were a number of camels that arrived in British Columbia as pack animals.

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Cariboo Gold Rush

The Cariboo Gold Rush was a gold rush in the Colony of British Columbia, which earlier joined the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Cayoosh Creek

Cayoosh Creek is a northeast-flowing tributary of the Seton River in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Cayoosh Pass

Cayoosh Pass (1,275 m / 4,183 ft) is a mountain pass in the Lillooet Ranges of the Pacific Ranges of the southern Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada.

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Cayoosh Range

The Cayoosh Range is the northernmost section of the Lillooet Ranges, which are a subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada.

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Church of the Holy Cross (Skatin)

The Church of the Holy Cross is a National Historic Site of Canada, located on one of the Indian Reserves of the Skatin First Nation, in southwestern British Columbia.

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D'Arcy, British Columbia

D'Arcy is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of British Columbia, approximately 150 kilometres northeast of the city of Vancouver.

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Dewdney Trail

The Dewdney Trail is a trail in British Columbia, Canada that served as a major thoroughfare in mid-19th century British Columbia.

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Douglas Ranges

The Douglas Ranges are a subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains of the Canadian province of British Columbia, about east of downtown Vancouver, north of the Fraser River and between the valleys of Stave and Harrison Lakes.

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Enterprise (1862)

The Enterprise was a passenger and freight sternwheeler that was built for service on the Soda Creek to Quesnel route on the upper Fraser River in British Columbia.

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Fraser Canyon Gold Rush

The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, (also Fraser Gold Rush and Fraser River Gold Rush) began in 1857 after gold was discovered on the Thompson River in British Columbia at its confluence with the Nicoamen River a few miles upstream from the Thompson's confluence with the Fraser River at present-day Lytton.

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Gates Lake

Gates Lake, also known as Birken Lake, Tenass Lake, Halfway Lake, and Summit Lake, is a small lake located at the summit of the Pemberton Portage area of the one-time Lakes Route through the Coast Mountains, located at the summit of a low pass connecting the Upper and Lower Lillooet Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia.

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Gates River

The Gates River is a short river in the Lillooet Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Gates Valley

The Gates Valley is a valley and group of communities in the Lillooet Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located between the summit of Pemberton Pass and the head of Anderson Lake at the community of D'Arcy.

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Gustavus Blin Wright

Gustavus Blin Wright was a pioneer roadbuilder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada.

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Harrison Lake

Harrison Lake is the largest lake in the southern Coast Mountains of Canada, being about 250 square kilometres (95 mi²) in area.

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Harrison River

The Harrison River is a short but large tributary of the Fraser River, entering it near the community of Chehalis, British Columbia, Canada.

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History of British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada.

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History of immigration to Canada

The history of immigration to Canada extends back thousands of years.

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Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail

The Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail, sometimes referred to simply as the Brigade Trail, refers to one of two routes used by Hudson's Bay Company fur traders to transport furs, goods and supplies between coastal and Columbia District headquarters at Fort Vancouver and those in New Caledonia and also in Rupert's Land.

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Index of British Columbia-related articles

Articles related to British Columbia include.

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James Douglas (governor)

Sir James Douglas KCB (August 15, 1803 – August 2, 1877), influential in the history of Canada first a fur trader and later a colonial governor, is often credited as "The Father of British Columbia".

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Le Jeune Road

Le Jeune Road (pronounced "Luh-JOO-n" Road), also West 42nd Avenue on the greater Miami grid plan, East 8th Avenue in Hialeah, and co-signed State Road 953 (SR 953) from US 1 in Coral Gables to SR 916 in Opa-locka, is a long north–south street in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and running a few miles west of central Miami.

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Lil'wat First Nation

The Lil'wat First Nation, a.k.a. the Lil'wat Nation or the Mount Currie Indian Band, is a First Nation band government located in the southern Coast Mountains region of the Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Lillooet

Lillooet, formerly Cayoosh Flat, is a community on the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada, about up the British Columbia Railway line from Vancouver.

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Lillooet Cattle Trail

The Lillooet Cattle Trail, also known as the Lillooet-Burrard Cattle Trail and also as the Lillooet Trail, was an unusual and daring public works undertaking by the Province of British Columbia in the 1877, and was the largest 19th Century public works expenditure at $35,000 of the new province since its joining Canada in 1871.

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Lillooet Country

The Lillooet Country, also referred to as the Lillooet District., is a region spanning from the central Fraser Canyon town of Lillooet west to the valley of the Lillooet River, and including the valleys in between, in the Southern Interior of British Columbia.

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Lillooet Lake

Lillooet Lake is a lake in British Columbia, Canada about 25 km in length and about 33.5 square kilometres (22 mi²) in area.

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Lillooet River

The Lillooet River is a major river of the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia.

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List of historical ships in British Columbia

The following is a list of vessels notable in the history of the Canadian province of British Columbia, including Spanish, Russian, American and other military vessels and all commercial vessels on inland waters as well as on saltwater routes up to the end of World War II (1945).

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Little Lillooet Lake

Little Lillooet Lake, historically also Tenas Lake is a lake in the Lower Lillooet Country located to the south of Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada, turning off highway 99 on the FSR to 33 km.

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Mount Breakenridge

Mount Breakenridge,, is a mountain in the Lillooet Ranges of southwestern British Columbia, Canada, located on the east side of upper Harrison Lake in the angle of mountains formed by that lake and the Big Silver River.

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N'Quatqua

N'Quatqua, variously spelled Nequatque, N'quat'qua, is the proper historic name in the St'at'imcets language for the First Nations village of the Stl'atl'imx people of the community of D'Arcy, which is at the upper end of Anderson Lake about 35 miles southeast of Lillooet and about the same distance from Pemberton.

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Nicola (Okanagan leader)

Nicola (1780/1785 – ~1865) (Spokan: Hwistesmetxe'qen, Walking Grizzly Bear), also Nkwala or N'kwala, was an important First Nations political figure in the fur trade era of the British Columbia Interior (early 19th century to 1858) as well as into the colonial period (1858–1871).

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Okanagan Trail

The Okanagan Trail was an inland route to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush from the Lower Columbia region of the Washington and Oregon Territories in 1858-1859.

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Old Cariboo Road

The Old Cariboo Road is a reference to the original wagon road to the Cariboo gold fields in what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Pemberton Pass

Pemberton Pass,, also formerly known as Mosquito Pass, is the lowest point on the divide between the Lillooet and Fraser River drainages, located at Birken, British Columbia, Canada, in the principal valley connecting and between Pemberton and Lillooet.

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Pemberton, British Columbia

Pemberton is a village municipality north of Whistler in the Pemberton Valley of British Columbia in Canada, with a population of 2,574.

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Philip Henry Nind

Philip Henry Nind (7 April 1831 – 9 March 1896) was an English rower and gold commissioner in colonial British Columbia.

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Port Douglas, British Columbia

Port Douglas, sometimes referred to simply as Douglas, is a remote community in British Columbia, Canada at east of the mouth of the Lillooet River, and at the head of Harrison Lake, which is the head of river navigation from the Strait of Georgia.

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River Trail (British Columbia)

The River Trail was a main route for travel in the colonial era of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia, running northwards along the Fraser River from to present day Lillooet to Big Bar, British Columbia and points beyond in the Cariboo District.

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Sea-to-Sky Corridor

The Sea-to-Sky Corridor, often referred to as the Corridor, or the Sea to Sky Country, is a region in British Columbia spreading from Horseshoe Bay through Whistler to the Pemberton Valley and sometimes beyond to include Birken and D'Arcy.

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Seton Lake

Seton Lake is a freshwater fjord draining east via the Seton River into the Fraser River at the town of Lillooet, British Columbia, about 22 km long and 243 m in elevation and 26.2 square kilometres in area.

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Seton Portage

Seton Portage is an historic rural community in British Columbia, Canada, that is about west of Lillooet, located between Seton Lake and Anderson Lake.

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Seton Portage Historic Provincial Park

Seton Portage Historic Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.

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Shalalth

Shalalth, pop.

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Skatin First Nations

The Skatin First Nations, aka the Skatin Nations, are a band government of the In-SHUCK-ch Nation, a small group of the larger St'at'imc people who are also referred to as Lower Stl'atl'imx.

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Skookumchuck Hot Springs

Official New Name is reverting to the traditional Pre-Colonial / Pre-Columbian Name: T'sek Hot Spring or T'sik Hot Spring.

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Steamboats of the Lower Fraser River and Harrison Lake

This article is about Steamboats of the Lower Fraser River and Harrison Lake.

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Vessels of the Lakes Route

The Lakes Route is an alternate name for the Douglas Road, which was the first formally designated "road" into the Interior of British Columbia, Canada from its Lower Mainland area flanking the Lower Fraser River.

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William Pinchbeck

William Pinchbeck (1831 – July 1893) was one of the original settlers in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada.

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Williams Lake, British Columbia

Williams Lake is a city in the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Won Alexander Cumyow

Won Alexander Cumyow was an early Chinese Canadian public servant and community leader.

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Yale, British Columbia

Yale is an unincorporated town in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Road

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