Harrison Lake
The Harrison Lake is the largest lake in the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
Its area is 250 km ², it is 60 km long and up to nine miles wide.
The main tributary is the Lillooet River, at the entry point of the sea forms a bay called Little Harrison Lake. On the shore once was Port Douglas, one of the main ghost towns in British Columbia, the only reminder of the name today. The summit is due to the small settlement of Indians of the tribe of the In - Shuck -ch gone, now located at the north end of the lake. In their language, the name is however Xa'xtsa.
The southern end of the lake, at the Harrison Hot Springs is located, is located about 95 km east of downtown Vancouver. To the east of the lake are the Lillooet Ranges, west of the Douglas Ranges. Its valley is the last and largest of a chain of large, extending in a north-south direction glacial valleys in which run northern tributaries of the Fraser River.
In the surroundings of the lake originate numerous hot springs, except in Harrison Hot Springs, for example, in Twenty Mile Bay and Port Douglas.
Approximately in the middle of the eastern shore extends the valley of the Silver River, opposite the western shore is Twenty Mile Bay. Between the two is the northern end of one of the longest and largest islands of the lake, aptly called Long Iceland and is 9.5 km long and 2.6 km wide. The second largest island called Echo Iceland is located immediately east of the wooded gorge of the River Harrison and measures 4 x 2.2 km. The outlet of the lake, the Harrison River, flows near Chehalis in the Fraser.
The lake played an important role in access to the gold fields at the headwaters of the Fraser during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, the years 1858 to 1860 as part of the Douglas Road.
- Lake in North America
- Lake in British Columbia
- River Fraser River system
- Fraser Valley Regional District