Port Douglas (British Columbia)
Port Douglas is a town in British Columbia on Harrison Lake, the starting point of the Strait of Georgia.
Port Douglas or simply Douglas was during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush to Yale the second major settlement in the heartland of British Columbia.
From Port Douglas starting led the Douglas Road (also Lillooet Trail, Harrison Trail or Lakes Route ), a travel route over land and water, according to Lillooet. During its heyday the town had thousands of inhabitants. Many of the first companies on the continental part of British Columbia there had their origin, including BX Express, which settled after completion of the Cariboo Road in the 1860s at the Fraser Canyon.
When the Douglas Road was abandoned, the population declined rapidly and today the church is completely gone. Only the area is still so named, and the Douglas First Nation named thereafter.
Though the city had died long ago, to operate until the 1890s regularly steamships between the Strait of Georgia, New Westminster and Port Douglas over the Fraser River. In the 1970s, the last remnants of the settlement was eliminated in the wake of a great lumberjack action.
Port Douglas, the Douglas Road and the west of the lake located Douglas Ranges up to their name in honor of James Douglas, the first governor of British Columbia.
49.77089 - 122.164999Koordinaten: 49 ° 46 ' 15 " N, 122 ° 9' 54 " W
- Location in British Columbia
- Place in North America
- Fraser Valley Regional District