Seton Portage Historic Provincial Park

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Seton Road & Scott Road, Seton Portage, British Columbia V0N 3B0, Canada

Seton Portage is an historic rural community in British Columbia, Canada, that is about 25 km west of Lillooet, located between Seton Lake and Anderson Lake. The Portage was formed about 10,000 years ago when the flank of the Cayoosh Range, which is the south flank of the valley, let go and slid into the middle of what had been a single lake. The result is a location similar to Interlaken, Switzerland, with two fjord-style lakes flanking a narrow and very short strip of land between them. There are two First Nations communities, comprising several individual Indian reserves of the Seton Lake First Nation, at either end of the Portage, with the intervening area and some of the Anderson Lake shoreline taken up by a small non-native recreational community, including a couple of orchards and small farms. There are two motels, a store, a provincial park campground and heritage site, and a pub.
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[Wikipedia] Seton Portage Historic Provincial Park

Seton Portage Historic Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.

It was established to commemorate the location of the first railway in the province of British Columbia. The 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long railway was built in 1861 for transport of miners' goods on the route to the Fraser goldfields in which the Portage was an important link (then known as Short Portage). The railway was horse-drawn in the uphill direction - a difference of only 15m between the two lakes, and used gravity for its descent. Known as Dozier's Way after its proprietor, Carl Dozier, the roadbed of the route remains today as the route of most of Portage Road from Nkiat to the downtown of Seton Portage to Slosh, though part of its route is preserved by the historic park(Nkiat and Slosh are two First Nations villages which are where the one-time gold rush ports of Wapping and Flushing were located). Though the route was used for heavy transit again, the early railway operated only a few years, though some transport and passenger traveled through the route, despite its becoming a backwater relative to other areas of the province and the Douglas Road became forgotten. Seton Portage received its current name in 1858, the centennial of the gold rush and the colony's creation, until which time it was known as the Short Portage - but also, with Shalalth, as Seton. The Lillooet Cattle Trail was built through the same route as the Douglas Road but, despite an ingenious and fragile catwalk along the cliffs of eastern Seton Lake, was not usable in the long run and was abandoned and derelict by the time the Pacific Great Eastern connected the Seton communities to Lillooet in 1915.

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driving past seton portage

Blessing's Murder and the story behind BC's Smallest Historic Provincial Park

The Smallest Historic Provincial Park in British Columbia is just 40 Kilometers from down town Quesnel. If you have Google Earth just search, Pinegrove BC you will see the ski hill. Look down Hwy 26 to a small parking lot on the North side of the Hwy.

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Lillooet and area from a 1946 tourism promotion film called Rails to Romance

This is just the short part of the film that focuses on the Lillooet area.

You can find the whole film at this link:

Original film from the Royal BC Museum

Record: F1986:28/012.01 - 012.02
Materials: 16mm colour film
Date: ca. 1945 - 1947

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Please watch: Royal visit 1939 drive by on Kingsway at Marlborough in Burnaby May 29th

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