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(57 miles west of Williams Lake on the Bella Coola Road)
Norman Lee left his ranch in this valley in 1898 with 200 head on a 1,500-mile ‘beef’ drive to the Klondike gold camps. Five months later, winter forced him to butcher the herd. He loaded the meat on scows which were lost on Teslin Lake, 500 miles short of Dawson City. Lee returned, undaunted, to help in the development of the cattle industry on Chilcotin’s...
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(10 miles north of Soda Creek and 32.5 miles north of Williams Lake)
Down-river lay the perilous and unnavigable canyon, Up-river the Fraser was swift and strong, but sternwheelers could travel for 400 miles from Soda Creek. Men and supplies embarked here in the 1860s for the fabulous Carilboo goldfields. Later, as the GTP Railway was forged across the Province, nine paddlewheelers formed a life-line to the north.
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(Vie point at the Cottonwood River Bridge, 10 miles north of Quesnel)
Plans to complete the Pacific Great Eastern Railroad to Prince George in 1921 failed because unstable ground prevented use of the proposed bridge site on the Cottonwood River. Thus, construction stopped at Quesnel. As northern expansion continued, the need for this rail link increased and a successful upstream crossing was completed in 1952.
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(At vie point at the Chasm, 10 miles north of Clinton on the old highway. Leave Highway 97, 7 miles north of Clinton)
At the close of the Ice Age about 10,000 years ago, a stream fed by melting ice cascaded over a falls forming this chasm by cutting into some of the lava flows that helped to build the Fraser Plateau. Individual lava flows are shown here by the horizontal layering. When the glacial ice...
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(View point at Kootenay River Bridge, 40 miles north of Fort Steele)
In September 1845 Father Jean De Smet, the first missionary to reach the Kootenay Indians, placed a large ‘Cross of Peace’ in a pass north of here as he struggled on foot through the Rockies seeking the Blackfeet tribe. Born in Belgium in 1801, this Jesuit priest laboured for 35 years among Indians from the Missouri River to the Pacific.
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