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(In Skihist Campground on Highway 1, 5 miles east of Lytton)
Water, cutting deeply into the pre-glacial floor of this valley over countless centuries, has gradually eroded the almost vertical dykes of the mountain of solid rock. The awesome display of crags and cliffs is vivid evidence of the might of the river and the ceaseless power of water at work. In place like this, man sees his true size.
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(At the Alexander Bridge on the Fraser, north of Spuzzum)
Construction of the Alexander suspension bridge was the greatest achievement of one of British Columbia’s first civil engineers, Joseph Trutch. Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works after 1864, he sat on the colony’s Legislative Council. He led the delegation in 1870 which negotiated the terms of union with Canada and from 1871-76 served as the province’s first lieutenant-governor.
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(A view point on Agassiz Mountain, 5 miles south of Agassiz)
About a mile beneath the river in front of you lies the old rock floor of this valley. For over 50 million years the Fraser, interrupted by periods of glaciation and of mountain building, has carried soil from the Interior. Once through the mountain, it slowed and built this broad fertile delta for 60 miles to the sea.
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(A view point 87 miles north of Vancouver and near Laidlaw on the Trans-Provincial Highway)
Our past, present and future are linked with the Fraser. The past saw fur-traders, the gold-rush of 1858, and early settlers. The present sees waters teeming with migrating salmon and a highway and railways confined to the gorge carved by the river. The Fraser, beautiful, bountiful and powerful, must always flow in the pattern of out future.
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(On Abbotsford-Sumas Highway, south of Highway 401)
The 10,778’ white cone on the Washington skyline is a recent volcano. The name honours Lieut. Baker who first sighted it with Capt. Vancouver in 1792. In 1868 E. T. Coleman recorded the first ascent. Eruptions, occurring as late as 1881, left fissures from which sulphur fumes still rise. Once a mysterious, remote peak, its slopes now host skiers of the northwest.
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