The Fraser Canyon is a major landform of the Fraser River where it descends rapidly through narrow rock gorges in the Coast Mountains en route from the...
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The Fraser Canyon War, also known as the Canyon War or the Fraser River War, was an incident between white miners and the indigenous Nlaka'pamux people...
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The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, (also Fraser Gold Rush and Fraser River Gold Rush) began in 1858 after gold was discovered on the Thompson River in British...
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Simon Fraser was forced to portage the gorge on his trip through the canyon in June 1808. At Yale, at the head of navigation on the river, the canyon opens...
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Black Canyon Freeway, the portion of Interstate 17 in Phoenix, Arizona Black Canyon (Fraser Canyon) or Big Canyon, a stretch of the Fraser Canyon near...
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describes the Fraser River basin downstream of the Fraser Canyon. The term is sometimes used outside British Columbia to refer to the entire Fraser River sections...
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Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon was a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of...
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(present-day Hudson's Hope) just east of the Peace River Canyon of the Rocky Mountains. That winter Fraser and his crew pushed through the mountains and ascended...
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Columbia and asserted the authority of the British Empire during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, which had the potential to turn the Mainland into an American...
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creation had been prompted by an influx of American prospectors to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush three years earlier in 1858, which had its locus in the area...
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and by the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, in response to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Moody selected the site for and founded the mainland colony's...
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North". The town of Hope, at the eastern end of the Fraser Valley and at the foot of the Fraser Canyon, is often considered the "Gateway to the Interior"...
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Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon is a federal electoral district located in Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon was created by...
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Hope, British Columbia (category Populated places in the Fraser Valley Regional District)
Valley and the Lower Mainland region, and is at the southern end of the Fraser Canyon. To the east, over the Cascade Mountains, is the Interior region, beginning...
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Stó꞉lō (redirect from Fraser River Salish)
as the Fraser River Indians or Lower Fraser Salish, are a group of First Nations peoples inhabiting the Fraser Valley and lower Fraser Canyon of British...
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Lower Mainland (section Upper Fraser Valley)
includes many unincorporated areas in the Fraser Valley and along the west side of the Fraser Canyon (the Fraser Canyon is not in the Lower Mainland). Regional...
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000 employees and serves the region from Boston Bar in the Fraser Canyon down the Fraser River Valley to the Vancouver suburbs of Burnaby and Delta....
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Pacific Railway trackage, although directional running through the Fraser Canyon means that westbound trains use Canadian National Railway tracks in...
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Nechako Plateau, flanking the Fraser River in the Central Interior of British Columbia Fraser Canyon, the stretch of the Fraser River from the city of Williams...
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Interior Salish people located in the southern Coast Mountains and Fraser Canyon region of the Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia...
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Cottonwood Canyon is a canyon along the Fraser River in the North Cariboo region of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is located west...
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Cariboo Road (category Fraser Canyon)
From the water landing at Yale, the road ran north via the spectacular Fraser Canyon route over Hell's Gate and Jackass Mountain, connecting to the earlier...
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Yale, British Columbia (category Fraser Canyon)
British Columbia, which grew in importance during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Located on the Fraser River, it is generally considered to be on the dividing...
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heart stopping wrecks of the season. On an active logging road in BC's Fraser Canyon, Nik and the Mission Towing team race to finish a recovery and open...
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Hells Gate (British Columbia) (category Fraser Canyon)
Columbia's Fraser River, located immediately downstream of Boston Bar in the southern Fraser Canyon. The towering rock walls of the Fraser River plunge...
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the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in British Columbia drew large numbers of miners, many from Washington, Oregon, and California, culminating in the Fraser Canyon...
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as Cameron Bar 13 for census purposes, is an Indian reserve in the Fraser Canyon region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. As of 2001[update]...
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List of filming locations in the British Columbia Interior, arranged by location. The Andromeda Strain (2008) An Unfinished Life (2005) Harry Tracy, Desperado...
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Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) candidates in the 2006 Canadian federal election (section Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon: Dorothy Jean O'Donnell)
People's Front 136 6/6 David Chutter, Liberal 2004 federal Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon Marxist-Leninist 95 7/7 Chuck Strahl, Conservative 2005 provincial Yale—Lillooet...
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Fraser Canyon Hospital (FCH) is a publicly funded community hospital in the town of Hope, British Columbia, Canada. The hospital is both owned and operated...
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