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(16 miles east of Hope)
A wagon road across BC – this was the ambitious scheme of the Royal Engineers in the late 1860s as miners clamored for better access to the Southern Interior.
Sent from England, these military engineers replaced the first 25 miles of the Dewdney Trail with a wagon road. Their work halted when attention shifted to the gold-rich Cariboo.
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(10 miles west of Revelstoke)
In 1865, Walter Moverly, government engineer, was searching for a railway route through these rugged Monashee Mountains.
He shot at an eagle’s nest, and observed the birds fly into a river valley. Following them he discovered this low pass which now carries the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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(9 miles north of Salmon Arm on Salmon Arm-Sicamous Highway)
This beautiful lake takes its name form the Shuswap Indian, northernmost of the great Salishan family and the largest tribe in Interior BC. Once numbering over 5,000 these people were fishermen and hunters. They roamed in bands through a vast land of lakes and forest stretching 150 miles to the west, north, and east.
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(Near Blue River)
In July 1863, Lord Milton and r. Cheadle laboured through this rugged mountain pass on a trans-continental tour. The Englishmen, travelling ‘for pleasure’, with an Indian guide and his family, completed the arduous trek form Yellowhead Pass to Kamloops in 42 days. The doctor’s journal of the trip is now a classic in the province’s historical records.
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(8.8 miles east of Chase)
The Adams River contains the most productive spawning beds in BC. Each fall the river teems with crimson sockeye salmon.
To the Indian, the fur-trader, and the first settlers, the advent of the ‘run’ could mean life itself.
The continuance of this age-old spawning cycle will bring millions of dollars each year to the people of the Pacific Northwest.
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