Mission Ridge , also known as Mission Mountain , is a ridge in the Bridge River - Lillooet Country of the South-Central Interior of British Columbia , Canada , extending westward from the town of Lillooet along the north side of Seton Lake to Mission Pass , which is immediately above and to the north of the lakeside community of Shalalth . The road over the pass is also known as Mission Mountain, which is short for "Mission Mountain Road". Mission Creek lies on the north side of the pass, and is a tributary of the Bridge River , the lower reaches of which lie on the north side of the ridge, and which was the only road access into the upper Bridge River Country before the construction of a road through the Bridge River Canyon in the mid-1950s opened that region up to road access from the lower Bridge River valley and the town of Lillooet via the community of Moha . Most, or virtually all, of the ridge, is Indian Reserves, notably Slosh 1 , under the administration of the Seton Lake Indian Band , and Bridge River 1 , which is under the administration of the Bridge River Indian Band . Parts of the ridge's eastern end are in reserves controlled by the Lillooet Indian Band , including its final spires above Lillooet, which were dubbed St. Mary's Mount by the Reverend Lundin Brown in the 1860s, though that name never stuck and is ungazetted.
18-1020: Mission Ridge may refer to: Mission Ridge (British Columbia) , a ridge in British Columbia, Canada Mission Ridge Winter Park , a ski area in Saskatchewan, Canada Mission Ridge Ski Area , a ski resort near Wenatchee, Washington, United States Mission Ridge, South Dakota , an unincorporated community in South Dakota, United States Mission Ridge, California; consists of Mission Peak , Mount Allison , Monument Peak See also [ edit ] Mission Hills (disambiguation) Mission Mountain (disambiguation) Mission Peak , near Fremont, California Mission Peak (Washington) , near Wenatchee, Washington Mission Terrace , in San Francisco, California Topics referred to by
36-544: A barrier for salmon and places for people to fish. The location is the most important aboriginal fishing site in the British Columbia Interior and historically it and neighbouring sites along the stretch of river between Fountain and Lillooet attracted over 15,000 people at a time to fish at the site during key salmon runs from the many different peoples of the Interior. It was here early in
54-501: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mission Ridge (British Columbia) The name derives from the former Oblate Mission at Shalalth. Originally the ridge, which is about 20 km in length, was referred to as Mission Mountain but as another Mission Mountain was already recorded in British Columbia (on the Tsimpsean Peninsula near Prince Rupert ) and
72-523: Is in one of the high alpine basins of the ridge, which is mostly meadow or tundra, although its south face above Seton Lake is extremely steep and includes extremely high bluffs and debris chutes towering over the eastern end of the lake. The ridge's northwestern side forms the southeast rim of the Bridge River Canyon , which extends from the area of Terzaghi Dam (originally known as Mission Dam) to Moha. The ridge's very far eastern end forms
90-920: The Six Mile Rapids , the Lower Fountain , the Bridge River Fishing Grounds , and in the St'at'imcets language as Sat' or Setl , is a set of rapids on the Fraser River , located in the central Fraser Canyon at the mouth of the Bridge River six miles north of the confluence of Cayoosh Creek with the Fraser and on the northern outskirts of the District of Lillooet , British Columbia , Canada. The rapids are among
108-633: The 19th century, that an insult by the chief of the Lakes Lillooet to the chief of the Okanagan people , Pelkamulox, led to the death of the latter and an eventual war of revenge against the St'at'imc by his son, the famous Nicola in the late 1830s. During the Fraser Gold Rush the site was the location of a boomtown known as Bridge River . That name came from the toll-bridge built over
126-702: The Fraser salmon runs, was abandoned, along with another at Glen Fraser and an even larger dam at Moran Canyon , which would have backed the Fraser up to Williams Lake and beyond. Today located on an Indian reserve under the administration of the Bridge River Indian Band (Xwisten First Nation, Xwisten being the name of the Bridge River in St'at'imcets), the site is shared by the area's various Indian bands, with certain families having long-standing rights to certain rock platforms and campsites, though few come from other First Nations people in
144-621: The actually-highest of the pair being officially unnamed because it is invisible from the lake and other viewpoints for the ridge (the highest summit is only visible from the Fountain-Pavilion stretch of BC Highway 99 ), and from Moha. Mount McLean is named for Donald McLean of the Hudson's Bay Company and a casualty of the Chilcotin War . At the western end of the ridge, on a knoll immediately above Shalalth and just east of
162-531: The fiercest on the Fraser and are generally considered impassable to canoes and river-rafting expeditions and are formed by the narrowing of the Fraser's banks by rock ledges at this point. However the diversion of the Bridge River in 1958 with the Bridge River Power Project severely curtailed the flow of the Bridge River, and the combined flows of the river no longer produce the "fountain" of combined waters during spring freshet which led to
180-632: The location's frontier-era name of the Lower Fountain. (The Upper Fountain was a longer but equally difficult but not as narrow gauntlet of whitewater a few more miles upstream, below the community of Fountain, which was formerly known as the Upper Fountain; those rapids today are the Upper Fountain Rapids). The narrows in aboriginal legend were formed by Coyote leaping back and forth from bank to bank so as to make
198-470: The main north-facing basin of the ridge, which includes lower benchlands near Moha, and connects to a steep descent of the powerline through the basin of Ama Creek to the confluence of the Bridge River with the Fraser at the Bridge River Rapids (the summit viewable from that point is the lower of the two Mount McLeans). There are numerous small ponds on the ridge, including Moon Lake which
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#1732781060495216-656: The north wall of the short canyon connecting the foot of Seton Lake and merging with the canyon of Cayoosh Creek known historically as Nkoomptch, or the Nkoomptch ("water crossing over"). An extension of the ridge west of the pass ends at Nosebag Mountain . To the west of Nosebag and Whitecap Creek, which runs south of it to join the Seton River in Seton Portage, is the Bendor Range . In some references
234-414: The rest of the Interior anymore. Pole-built fishing platforms jut out over the narrows of the rapids, which form a small waterfall, especially during spring run-off, and fish-drying racks are scattered around the surrounding area (wind-dried salmon is a local specialty, the area being so subject to dry winds pouring down the canyon no smoking is required). A modern pictograph created by Saul Terry , showing
252-711: The ridge is referred to as being part of the "Chilcotin Mountains", but these end at the Bridge River, despite a common geological alignment with the Shulaps Range , which is the most easterly of the Chilcotin Ranges . The ridge is properly part of the Pacific Ranges . 50°44′26″N 122°05′58″W / 50.74056°N 122.09944°W / 50.74056; -122.09944 Bridge River Rapids The Bridge River Rapids , also known as
270-478: The river at this point in 1859 to replace a native-built pole bridge. The town only lasted a few years, as an easier crossing to the Old Cariboo Road was Miller's Ferry , closer to today's Lillooet, at the site of a 1913-built suspension bridge. A 1950s era proposal to build a dam at Lillooet Canyon, just above the site of today's suspension bridge, which would have inundated the fishing spot and ended
288-423: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mission Ridge . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mission_Ridge&oldid=1249013734 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
306-422: The summit of the pass, a microwave station is located, with road access from the pass. A powerline road continues along the ridge, running along its north side from Mission Peak eastwards, but is blocked to through traffic by a landslide in that area. A network of roads extending up from a bridge-crossing of the lower Bridge River between Applespring Creek and Moha ranges up the basin of Camoo Creek , which forms
324-447: The term refers really more to a small mountain range than to any one specific summit, the term Mission Ridge was coined in 1931 for official purposes. The British Columbia Geographic Names Information System places the coordinates of the ridge on Mission Peak , which is the westerly of the ridge's three main summits and is labelled on the provincial basemap as such. The other two summits are conjointly referred to as Mount McLean , with
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