Tête Jaune Cache, British Columbia

Tête Jaune Cache is a settlement in the province of British Columbia in western Canada.

Location

The scattered settlement is located on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in the valley of the Fraser River about 100 km west of Jasper ( Alberta ), 240 kilometers east of Prince George and 330 kilometers north of Kamloops. Here ends the southern section of the Yellowhead Highway, Highway 5 on the northern, Highway 16

The valley is surrounded by three mountain ranges, the Monashee, the Premier and the Rocky Mountains, the McLennan River flows into the Fraser River.

History

The name of the village derives from Pierre Hastination, one of the nation of the Iroquois belonging trapper and fur trader who was the Voyageurs due to his blond hair Tête Jaune (French for yellow head) called.

The construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway gave the village a short boom around 1910, when about 3,000 people settled here.

After the population had declined over the years to about 500, the development of tourism has stabilized in recent years this number.