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  British Columbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, bordered by the Pacific coast.
The southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty.
From 1818 to 1846, British Columbia south of 54°40' and west of the Rocky Mountains was part of the Oregon Country.
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 Lillooet, British Columbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lillooet's economy also boomed in the 1940s and 50s during the construction of the Bridge River hydrolectric project, which includes a dam, canal and powerhouse on the outskirts of town.
Lillooet is an important location in native history and culture and remains one of the main population centres of the St'at'imc (Lillooet Nation), and today it is one of the southernmost communities in North America where indigenous people form the majority.
Lillooeters still, however, consider their town to be "Mile O" of the Cariboo Wagon Road, and it is true that the numbered roadhouse names of the Cariboo district are measured from the bend in Main Street, where a cairn was erected in 1858 to commemorate this fact.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lillooet,_British_Columbia   (1096 words)

  
 Lillooet, British Columbia
Lillooet is located on the banks of the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada.
As Lillooet was the head of navigation on the "lakes" route to the interior, it became mile zero on the Cariboo road.
Lillooet is one of the southern most communities in North America where indigenous people form the majority.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/lillooet__british_columbia   (275 words)

  
 Wikinfo | British Columbia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As of 2001, the population was 4,095,934 (British Columbians).
British Columbia is located on the extreme west of Canada, on the Pacific coast.
British Columbia is renowned for its spectacular scenery which forms the backdrop and context for a growing outdoor adventure and ecotourism industry.
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 Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada
Lillooet has one of the most pleasant climates in Canada, a combination of the sunny skies of the BC interior with the moderating influences of the coast.
Lillooet is steeped in the memories of yesteryear.
To the southwest of Lillooet, on the Sea to Sky Highway, lies the rustic village of Pemberton and the First Nations community of Mount Currie.
www.lillooet.com   (1507 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost province of the Dominion of Canada.
British Columbia has been called a sea of mountains, and this designation is fairly accurate, save perhaps for some forty miles on either side of the Chilcotin River, where are to be found rolling or tolerably level plateaux at least 3,000 feet above the sea and covered with excellent bunch grass.
The principal ranges are the Lillooet mountains in the south-west, the Cariboo and the Babine mountains in the north-eastern and north-western interiors respectively, north of which numberless sierras connect the Rockies with the Cascade or Coast range, a chain of steep and rugged mounts that run parallel to the former.
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 My visit to Lillooet in the Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. Lillooet BC.
Lillooet is the regional hub, serving a population of approximately 5000.
Lillooet was first known as Cayoosh Flat because of the good grazing that cayuses (Indian ponies) enjoyed here.
Lillooet is a misspelling of the Indian word LEEL-wat, which refers to the people of the Mount Currie area.
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 Neil R. Baker Family Guiding Services, Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada
An enjoyable wilderness experience in the pristine wilds of British Columbia - be it strolling through light fresh falling snow on skiis or snowshoes or booting it along a mountain ridge well above the treeline - is a reality for both the soft and tough adventure traveller.
Located in the Tahltan Highlands in northwestern British Columbia, the park's volcanic landscape consists of lava flows, cinder fields and cones, and basalt plateaus.
The Stein Valley is one of British Columbia's last unlogged watersheds with a unique diversity of vegetation in its terrain.
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 Lillooet British Columbia
Lillooet has one of the most pleasant climates in Canada, four distinct seasons without extremes: early sunny springs, warm dry summers, long mild autumns and short winters with just a touch of snow.
The District of Lillooet is picturesquely located on the sage and pine covered bench lands of the Fraser River in South Central British Columbia.
Lillooet, with its 13 saloons, 25 licenced premises and clutter of cabins and tents, had a shifting population of over 15,000 residents in the 1860's and was the biggest little gold rush settlement in the Cariboo district (now British Columbia).
www.lillooetbc.com   (413 words)

  
 Lillooet River, British Columbia
The Lillooet and Birkenhead Rivers have been providing sport for whitewater kayakers since the invention of fibreglass.
The Lillooet River can be treacherous, owing to the numbers of submerged sweepers brought down into the river as a result of logging and slope instability, particularly in the Meagre Creek drainage.
Runs include a 3-mile (5-km) stretch on the Upper Lillooet River between the put-in at riverside on the Upper Lillooet Forest Road north of Pebble Creek and the take-out beside the Meagre Creek Forestry Road bridge.
powellriverbc.com /rivers/?ID=124   (184 words)

  
 Lillooet Lillooet, British Columbia (Cities)
Located about 40 miles north of Pemberton, on the former Duffy Lake Road (a popular backroad drive past lakes and glaciers), Lillooet was once a Fraser River gold rush terminus.
It is Mile 0 of the Gold Rush Trail and historical gateway to Cariboo Chilcotin Coast.
In addition to its "cowboy country" atmosphere, Lillooet also features native archeological sites, ginseng farms and a pioneer museum.
www.ohwy.com /bc/l/lillooet.htm   (104 words)

  
 Medical and Nursing jobs in Lillooet, British Columbia - MedHunters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Located in southern British Columbia, nestled in the majestic Rocky Mountains, lies the small town of Lillooet.
With a population of only 2,574 people, it is hard to imagine that Lillooet was once the largest city in British Columbia.
In the 1850s, Lillooet developed at the head of the Cariboo Trail, a route used by miners to reach...
www.yourhospital.com /jobs/lillooet-british-columbia-canada.html   (232 words)

  
 Listings British Columbia: Lillooet
Lillooet BC's "Little Nugget" is situated about four hours east of Vancouver.
Lillooet's history is entrenched in the B.C. Gold Rush of 1860.
Lillooet British Columbia Canada Lillooet’s only RV park with pull thru sites; large and spacious.
listingsbc.ca /Southwest/Squamish-Lillooet/Lillooet#bedbreakfast   (447 words)

  
 THE GREAT SITES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA,
The Glenrose Site is situated along the Fraser River, British Columbia, less than 10 miles from the Pacific coast.
Project results indicate that the 'Classic Lillooet' villages were exceptionally well situated to obtain and trade large numbers of salmon of prime quality for drying and preservation.
Based on the undisturbed nature of rim middens and some datable interior storage pits, the large housepits such as Housepit 7 appear to have attained their maximum dimensions by at least the Plateau horizon, and may well have been close to their maximim size even in Shuswap horizontimes.
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 Fraser River Jet Boat Adventures, Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada. Jetboating on the Fraser and Seton River in BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jetboating on the Fraser and Seton River in BC Fraser River Jet Boat Adventures…Lillooet, British Columbia
Fraser River Jet Boat Adventures, in the South Cariboo region of British Columbia, offers action packed adventure that's great for kids and thrill seekers of all ages.
We combine the hot and sunny climate of Lillooet, with the thrill of white water, fast turns and spins to give you a wet and wild ride.
www.bcadventure.com /fraserriverjetboat   (472 words)

  
 Zooarchaeology of the Lillooet Region, British Columbia -- M.A. Thesis --   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Zooarchaeology of the Lillooet Region, British Columbia -- M.A. Thesis --
Faunal material from five house pit sites in the Lillooet region of the British Columbia Interior Plateau was analyzed in order to obtain a regional picture of subsistence activities during the Late Prehistoric period.
During the analysis careful attention was paid to the potential biases introduced into the faunal sample by the selection and butchering of the species, by their taphonomic history, by analysis and quantitative techniques, and by excavation methodology.
www.sfu.ca /archaeology/dept/gradstu/theses/masters/LANGEMAN.HTM   (220 words)

  
 Alberta UFO Study Group -Lillooet, BC, Sighting
The highway connecting Lillooet with the outside world was on the far side of the river.
Came the darkness, the valley was pitch fl except for the odd set of headlights of cars traveling into town.
The News was being printed, not in Lillooet, but in Fort St. John at Ma'sson Dan's newspaper shop, so nothing was "of the moment" news wise.
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 Gravity Fed Adventures, mountain bike tours, Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A team of pack horses ports the baggae, leaving 150 km of drool-worthy trail to you and your mountainbike.
Gravity Fed Adventures is a dynamic mountain bike tour company located in Lillooet and Gold Bridge in the British Columbia southern interior, just 140 Kms (2 hrs.) from Whistler, BC.
Our tours originate in Lillooet and Gold Bridge in the British Columbia southern interior, just 140 Kms (2 hrs.) from Whistler, BC.
www.gravityfedadventures.com   (517 words)

  
 Lillooet.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Introduction: When I designed this course, you were going to be reading Brian Hayden's The Pithouses of Keatley Creek to learn about the Lillooet, who live in the plateau culture area (located between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coastal mountain ranges), and about archaeology.
use the cultural ecology model to analyze the Lillooet adaptation to life in the plateau region of western Canada.
One of the major disasters of Lillooet culture appears to have occurred when a landslide disrupted salmon migration up the Fraser River.
www.socialscience.eku.edu /Ant/SAVAGE/FirstNations03/Lillooet.html   (416 words)

  
 Hanging Tree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Some of the trees cut in what is today the city's Jericho neighbourhood were in the vicinity of 400 feet.
It has been stated that the construction of the windjammer fleets of the American merchant marine and the British Navy in the latter days of the Age of Sail would have been impossible without the mast-spars that were cut in Burrard Inlet and English Bay.
I am nowhere near the city archives or library at present, and their images are not yet on-line, although you may enquire directly to them concerning reproduction; the provincial archive's web address should cross-reference you to the other archives and libraries hereabouts.
www.nyu.edu /pages/projects/julian/hangingtree.html   (429 words)

  
 ComputerNetworking.CityFind.biz - Lillooet British Columbia networking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Lillooet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At one time Lillooet was the largest settlement in British Columbia.
It's importance is evident in that the Mile "0" Cairn that marks the beginning of the famous Cariboo Trail is placed in Lillooet.
Lillooet it situated on the banks of the mighty Fraser River, affording visitors a wonderful display of nature's beauty.
www.bcadventure.com /adventure/explore/cariboo/cities/lillooet.htm   (535 words)

  
 NEW BRIDGES ON HWY 99 IMPROVE SAFETY IN LILLOOET REGION
LILLOOET – The Province will invest $40 million on a series of upgrades to Highway 99 near Lillooet, including the construction of eight new bridges, opening up the Interior to safer, quicker and more comfortable travel, Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon and Yale-Lillooet MLA Dave Chutter announced today.
The new Lillooet Station Bridge will be built first, with construction on the remaining bridges taking place over the following four years.
“Lillooet is going to be a gateway to the Olympics and the community is preparing to welcome the world,” said Chutter.
www2.news.gov.bc.ca /nrm_news_releases/2005TRAN0015-000285.htm   (294 words)

  
 Cayoosh Creek Campground - Full service RV sites and camping in Lillooet, British Columbia
Located just 2 1/2 hours north of Whistler and 4 hours north of Vancouver, Lillooet, is the historical gateway to the Cariboo.
One of the earliest settlements in BC's interior, Lillooet embraces a formidable gold-dusted heritage and a rich First Nations history.
As "Mile 0" on the historic Cariboo Trail, which took miners north to the goldfields in the 1800s, Lillooet was one of the largest settlements in the Northwest.
www.cayooshcampground.com   (350 words)

  
 CascadeClimbers.com - The Pacific Northwest Climbers Resource: Lillooet Ice Climbing Festival
Lillooet is approximately 400km north of Vancouver, and 200km west of Kamloops.
Don Serl's and Bruce Kay's Climbers' Guide to West Coast Ice (Elaho 1993) describes Lillooet as being "the epicenter of the finest, and certainly the most reliable, concentration of winter ice routes in southwestern BC." Lillooet is host to over 100 climbs, from quick roadside hits to towering epics.
The Lillooet Ice Climbing Festival is scheduled to take place from Friday (January 19) to Sunday (January 21).
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 Bridgemeister - Lillooet Suspension Bridge ("The Old Bridge")   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This is one of two large British Columbia suspension bridges built by Waddell and Harrington 1913-1914.
The Lillooet bridge has an interesting system of stabilizing cables.
A saddle for one of the sway cables.
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 LumberYard.YourCitySites.com - Lillooet British Columbia wood specialists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
If you are looking for help in Lillooet, British Columbia then you have found it here.
We specialize in helping people like you in Lillooet.
Our professionals have the expertise to assist you in Lillooet.
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 Accommodations in Lillooet - Find all Lillooet Accommodations at Hotels-BritishColumbia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This directory of Accommodations in Lillooet offers a great level of detail, including photos, descriptions, driving directions and direct contact information for Accommodations in Lillooet, British Columbia.
Located 1 kilometre (about half a mile) from beautiful Lillooet, British Columbia, Cayoosh Creek Campground offers RV and treed and grassed tent sites in a peaceful riverside setting.
Clearmountain B&B is set in the country among high mountain peaks with trails and lakes nearby.
hotels-britishcolumbia.com /britishcolumbia/accommodation/lillooet/hotels.htm   (964 words)

  
 Scheduled Trips
Lillooet, British Columbia, November 26, 2000: The Lillooet Ice Climbing
The Lillooet Ice Climbing Festival registration fee is $25.
Lillooet is approximately 400km north of Vancouver, and 200km west of
www.bivouac.com /EvtPg.asp?EvtId=124   (569 words)

  
 Tourism BC | Home Page
Explore sights, activities and events in BC The challenge in British Columbia is figuring out not what do to, but how to do it all.
US passports are not necessary at this time to visit British Columbia or other parts of Canada.
For updates on when this new travel policy for Americans will be implemented, please visit the US Department of State.
www.hellobc.com   (198 words)

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