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Route of the Douglas Road (water portions in blue, land portions in red) and the Cariboo Road (green) 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 ...
View of Seton Portage from Mission Mountain with Anderson Lake (centre) and Seton Lake (lower left), c. 1950. Seton Portage (/ ˈ s iː t ən ˈ p ɔːr t ə dʒ /) is a community on a narrow strip of land between Anderson Lake and Seton Lake in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia.
The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District is a quasi-municipal administrative area in British Columbia, Canada. It stretches from Britannia Beach in the south to Pavilion in the north. Lillooet , Pemberton , Whistler and Squamish are the four municipalities in the regional district.
In early 1911, the Lillooet Suspension Bridge (a.k.a. the Lillooet Old Bridge) opened, and the construction equipment was moved to Chimney Creek to erect a similar bridge. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The total length is 161 metres (528 ft), of which the main span between the towers is 105 metres (345 ft). [ 13 ]
There have been copper prospects operating on Red Mountain 2445 m (8022 ft), the highest in the range, and on Poison Mountain 2264 m (7428 ft), just south Red, is located where the spine of the Shulaps Range intersects with that of the Camelsfoot, at the apex of the Yalakom valley which runs SE towards Lillooet from this point.
Short Portage to Lillooet, Irene Edwards, self-published, Lillooet, various editions, out of print. Halfway to the Goldfields: A History of Lillooet, Lorraine Harris, Sunfire Books, one edition, out of print. J. J. Douglas (1977) ISBN 0-88894-062-9 ISBN 978-0-88894-062-9
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 it joined Canada in 1871.
