2009-08-27 10:40:22Momo~
The Lillooet Museum ~Whilster~Vancouver
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.
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著名的BC玉產地
- 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.
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
博物馆的彩色玻璃好漂亮