Bridge River - Citizendia

This article is about the river. For locations and other things named for the river, please see Bridge River (disambiguation).

East Wall of Bridge River Canyon, near Terzaghi Dam, from Road 40

The Bridge River is, or was, a major tributary of British Columbia's Fraser River, entering that stream about six miles upstream from the town of Lillooet. Terzaghi Dam located about 100 km NE of the resort of Whistler British Columbia in western Canada, is the key diversion dam in the Bridge River Power Project British Columbia (ˌbrɪtɨʃ kəˈlʌmbiə ( BC) ( (la Colombie-Britannique C For other uses of this name see Fraser River (disambiguation. Lillooet (formerly Cayoosh Flat) is a small but historic and highly scenic community on the Fraser River in western

1 Name
2 Location
3 Fishery
4 Tributaries
5 Spruce Lake Protected Area
6 Bridge River Gold
7 The Big Canyon
8 See also
9 External links

Name

Its name in the Lillooet language is Xwisten (pronounced Hwist'n), sometimes spelled Nxwisten or Nxo-isten). St'at'imcets (also Lillooet, Lilloet, St’át’imcets) is an Interior Salishan language spoken in southern British Columbia, Dubbed Riviere du Font by Simon Fraser's exploring party in 1808, it was for a while known by the English version of that name, Fountain River, and some old maps show it as Shaw's River, after the name of one of Fraser's men. Simon Fraser ( 20 May 1776 – 18 August 1862) was a Fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the Canadian

Location

Its confluence with the Fraser occurs at a double gorge formed by the two rivers, which are forced through narrow banks at this point and so reminiscent of a fountain (in another version of the name, the surname of one of Fraser's men was supposedly du Font, giving the location its name of the Lower Fountains (the Upper Fountains being another few miles upstream on the Fraser, today's community of Fountain The river came to be called the Bridge River due to the location of a bridge across the Fraser at this point, originally a pole-structure built by the native St'at'imc people but replaced at the time of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in 1858 by a white-run tollbridge. Fountain is an unincorporated rural area and Indian Reserve in the Fraser Canyon region of British Columbia, Canada, located at the ten-mile The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, (also Fraser Gold Rush) occurred in 1858 after Gold was discovered on the Thompson River in British Columbia

Fishery

Due to the force of the rivers at this point, the area of the confluence was for millennia, and remains today, the most important inland salmon-fishing site on the Fraser. For other uses of this name see Fraser River (disambiguation. The flow of the Bridge River, however, was near-completely diverted into Seton Lake with the completion of the Bridge River Power Project in 1961, with the water now entering the Fraser River just south of Lillooet as a result. Seton Lake is a freshwater Fjord draining into the Fraser River at the town of Lillooet British Columbia, about 22 km long and 243 m in elevation and 26 The Bridge River Power Project is a hydroelectric power development in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located in the Lillooet Country For other uses of this name see Fraser River (disambiguation. Lillooet (formerly Cayoosh Flat) is a small but historic and highly scenic community on the Fraser River in western The salmon fishery of the Bridge River was near-entirely destroyed by this diversion.

Tributaries

Because of the diversion of the river to Seton Lake by Terzaghi Dam and tunnels through Mission Mountain, which is in that area the south flank of the Bridge, what Bridge River water enters the Fraser now is largely the flow of one of the Bridge's tributaries, the Yalakom River. Seton Lake is a freshwater Fjord draining into the Fraser River at the town of Lillooet British Columbia, about 22 km long and 243 m in elevation and 26 Terzaghi Dam located about 100 km NE of the resort of Whistler British Columbia in western Canada, is the key diversion dam in the Bridge River Power Project The Yalakom River is a tributary of the Bridge River, which is one of the principal tributaries of the Fraser River, entering it near the town of Lillooet British The Yalakom, whose name means the ewe of the mountain sheep in the Chilcotin language, was in old times known as the North Fork of the Bridge. The argali, or the mountain sheep (species Ovis ammon) is the globally endangered wild sheep, which roams the highlands of Central Asia Chilcotin (also Tsilhqot’in, Tzilkotin) is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in British Columbia by the Tsilhqot’in people The South Fork of the Bridge River is many miles upstream, at the community of Gold Bridge, and is today known as the Hurley River (originally Hamilton's River). Gold Bridge is an unincorporated community in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District in British Columbia, Canada. The Hurley River is a major tributary of the Bridge River of west-central British Columbia, and was in fact earlier known as the South Fork of that larger river Several other large feeder streams contribute to the diverted flow of the Bridge, including Gun Creek, Tyaughton Creek, Marshall Creek, and Cadwallader Creek; the last-named is a tribuary of the Hurley, about 15 kilometres upstream from its confluence with the Bridge. Tyaughton Creek is a 50 kilometre tributary of British Columbia 's Bridge River, entering the main flow of that river about mid-way along the length of Carpenter Lake

Spruce Lake Protected Area

Gun Creek and Tyaughton Creek jointly drain the south flank of the protected wilderness area known as the Spruce Lake Protected Area, popularly known as the South Chilcotin although the area is not actually in the Chilcotin, which lies north of it, but in the Chilcotin Ranges. Tyaughton Creek is a 50 kilometre tributary of British Columbia 's Bridge River, entering the main flow of that river about mid-way along the length of Carpenter Lake Spruce Lake Protected Area, formerly known variously as the Southern Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park or Southern Chilcotins, and also as South Chilcotin Provincial Chilcotin Ranges are a subdivision of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains (in some classifications they are a separate subdivision The official designation for the area has changed since it was first proposed for a park in the 1930s, due to the efforts of the prospecting and mining community in the goldfield towns. The protectionist vs. resource extraction battle over that area has raged since that time, and names used in debates for the area have included the Charlie Cunningham Wilderness, the Spruce Lake-Eldorado Study Area , the Spruce Lake-Eldorado Management Planning Unit (SLRMP), Southern Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park, and South Chilcotin Provincial Park. In 2007 the name was changed again to the Spruce Lake Protected Area, reflective of the government's downgrading of the area from park to mixed-use in certain areas.

Bridge River Gold

It is along Cadwallader Creek that the major mines of the Bridge River goldfields are located at Bralorne and Pioneer Mine. Cadwallader Creek is an important tributary of the Hurley River in the Bridge River Country of the British Columbia Interior, Canada, most notable Bralorne is an historic underground Gold mining community in the Bridge River District, some sixty dirt road miles west of the town of Lillooet. Other mining towns and camps built around mines in the Bridge River goldfields were Minto City, Wayside, Congress, Lajoie, Haylmore and Brexton (aka Fish Lake). Minto City, often called just Minto, sometimes Minto Mines or Minto Mine, was a gold mining town in the Bridge River Valley of British Columbia Around Bralorne other localities such as Ogden grew up along road right-of-ways and slips of land between the mineral claims which dominate the northwestern flank of the Bendor Range in this area, providing services not approved of by company towns, including "sporting houses", some of which were also in Gold Bridge until forced to move to Minto as Gold Bridge became larger. Bendor Range is a small but once-famous subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains, about It is approximately 7000 square kilometres (2700 mi² in area For the 2008 film of this name see The Brothel. For the television series of this name see Cathouse The Series. Other gold-mining activity is found throughout the river's basin. During the 19th Century, large hydraulic mining operations lined the banks of the river for the thirty kilometres between the community of Moha, at the confluence of the Yalakom and the Bridge. Hydraulic mining, or hydraulicking, is a form of Mining that employs Water to dislodge rock material or move sediment The Yalakom River is a tributary of the Bridge River, which is one of the principal tributaries of the Fraser River, entering it near the town of Lillooet British

The Big Canyon

Upstream from Moha the now-dry riverbed runs through the immense gorge of the Bridge River Canyon, which lies immediately downstream from Terzaghi Dam, the principal dam of the Bridge River Power Project. Terzaghi Dam located about 100 km NE of the resort of Whistler British Columbia in western Canada, is the key diversion dam in the Bridge River Power Project The Bridge River Power Project is a hydroelectric power development in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located in the Lillooet Country Terzaghi Dam forms Carpenter Lake, the longest and largest of the power project's reservoirs at about 40 kilometres. Terzaghi Dam located about 100 km NE of the resort of Whistler British Columbia in western Canada, is the key diversion dam in the Bridge River Power Project Carpenter Lake, officially Carpenter Lake Reservoir, is the largest of the three Reservoirs of the Bridge River Power Project, which is located in the mountains Just upstream from Gold Bridge, which is at the upper end of Carpenter Lake, is Lajoie Dam, which forms Downton Lake. Gold Bridge is an unincorporated community in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District in British Columbia, Canada. Lajoie Dam is the uppermost of the storage dams of the Bridge River Power Project, which is located in the southwestern Interior of British Columbia.

External links

The Bridge River Country is a historic geographic region and mining district in the Interior of British Columbia, Canada, lying between the Fraser Canyon The Bridge River Power Project is a hydroelectric power development in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located in the Lillooet Country Bridge River was used to describe three separate towns or localities in the Lillooet Country of the Interior of British Columbia connected with the river and valley The Bridge River Indian Band also known as the Nxwísten First Nation, the Xwisten First Nation, and the Bridge River Band, is a First Nations The Bridge River Cones is the name given to a Volcanic field located on the north flank of the upper Bridge River, about 40 kilometres west of the town of The Bridge River Ash is a large geologically recent Volcanic ash deposit that spans from southwestern British Columbia to central Alberta, Canada Chief Hunter Jack (d1905 was a 19th C chief of the Lakes Lillooet (today's N'quatqua and Seton Lake bands) Gold Bridge is an unincorporated community in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District in British Columbia, Canada. Bralorne is an historic underground Gold mining community in the Bridge River District, some sixty dirt road miles west of the town of Lillooet. Minto City, often called just Minto, sometimes Minto Mines or Minto Mine, was a gold mining town in the Bridge River Valley of British Columbia Tyaughton Creek is a 50 kilometre tributary of British Columbia 's Bridge River, entering the main flow of that river about mid-way along the length of Carpenter Lake

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