Lillooet town 博物館
Location: Lillooet is located at the junction of Highway 12 and Highway 99, 106 miles (180 km) north of Hope and 213 miles (340 km) northeast of Vancouver. |
Lillooet Museum, Lillooet, BC |
The Lillooet Museum has many displays detailing the communities colourful and fascinating past. Lillooet retains vestiges of its past in the old Anglican Church on Main Street, and its pioneer cemetery. Main Street, built wide enough for the old traders to turn their 20-oxen carts, is said to point exactly due north. Lillooet is steeped in the memories of yesteryear. All around this area are ghost towns, railways, and old mines. History buffs can tour Miyazaki Heritage House, built by Caspar Phair, one of Lillooet's first settlers.
- The old Salt Box frame house, once ringed with porches, is the former home of the Bridge River - Lillooet News. The paper was established in 1934 by MLA George Murray, who founded the paper as a campaign promise to the Lillooet residents of the day. It was made famous by his wife, Margaret, who gained fame as the inimitable Ma Murray. The building was originally built as a rooming house for PGE construction crews working on the railway. It now accommodates private apartments.
- The Chinese Rock Piles provide a reminder of the search for gold by Chinese people before the turn of the nineteenth century. Washing the sand and gravel for the elusive yellow metal, the Chinese neatly piled the washed rocks in long rows, more than 12 feet high in some places. The rocks are found on both sides of the Fraser River, with the best remaining examples found below Hangman's Tree Park. Others are just downstream from the old suspension bridge, and on the east side of the Fraser River.
Hangman's Tree, Lillooet, BC |
Hangman's Tree, located on the benchland overlooking Lillooet, was allegedly used as a gallows during the 1880s gold rush by the hanging judge, Sir Mathew Baillie Begbie. There is a record that two thieves were hanged and buried beneath the tree, and legend has it that eight lawbreakers in all swung from the tree. The bough which actually accommodated the noose has since rotted off, but the gnarled old pine remains. If you don't think the story is worthy of the walk, the view certainly is.
- Bridge of 23 Camels: Innovative Lillooet resident John Callbreath experimented with camels as pack animals, hoping to make an improvement over the oft-stubborn mule. In 1862 he bought 23 camels in San Fransisco for $300, and shipped them to Lillooet to work in the Gold Rush. While efficient they were, their tender feet, bad tempers and foul odour led to the scheme's demise. While the camels were a dismal failure, they nonetheless left a strong impression on townsfolk, as evidenced by their memorial, Lillooet's Bridge of 23 Camels.
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- Since the construction of the Bridge of the 23 Camels, the bridge built by Royal Engineers in 1913 has been known by local residents as The Old Bridge. The span is a suspension bridge of steel cables and wood, with 'dead men' embedded in the rock banks of the Fraser River. This bridge replaced a truss bridge, which in turn had replaced a winch ferry built in 1860 that was powered by the river current.
- The Mile O Cairn was erected in 1939, marking mile zero of the old Cariboo Road in the early stage coach days. All road houses and stopping places from this point to Barkerville were known by their mileage from Lillooet - 70 Mile House, 100 Mile House, and so on. In 1858, Governor James Douglas ordered the construction of a trail from Fort Douglas on Harrison Lake to Lillooet. The Royal Engineers supervised the construction, and miners with picks and shovels were contracted to build the road for the sum of five English pounds each, which they received upon arrival in Lillooet by land and portage. Sixteen thousand gold seekers were outfitted in Lillooet by 1863, when the alternative Fraser Canyon route from Yale finally reached Lytton. While the mile zero cairn is located in the centre of Lillooet, the actual Mile O was across the river in East Lillooet.
The Lillooet Museum
The The Lillooet Museum
Bandywine falls~
47 km North of Squamish off Hwy 99.
Nature & Culture
- History - The word brandy is actually the shortened word for brandywine. No one is completely sure about how the falls got their name, but one possible explanation is that two surveyors (Jack Nelson and Bob Mollison) for the Howe Sound and Northern Railway made a wager for a bottle of brandy about who could estimate more accurately the height of the falls. When the height was actually measured with a chain it was Mollison who won the bottle of brandy and Nelson then named the falls Brandywine.
Beautiful view on the way home~
n on the way to Whilster~
行程 Vancouver ~ Nanaimo ~ Port Hardy ~Prince Rupert~Terrace~ New Hazelton~ Smithers-Houston ~Burns Lake~Takysie Lake~Prince Geroge~Quesnel~Willams Lake ~108 miles house~Lillooet town ~Whilster~Vancouver 共計3000多公里
Dates 8/5~8/11,2009
The Northwest BC
2009.08.11
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