The Lillooet River is a major river of the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia . It begins at Silt Lake, on the southern edge of the Lillooet Crown Icecap about 80 kilometres northwest of Pemberton and about 85 kilometres northwest of Whistler . Its upper valley is about 95 kilometres in length, entering Lillooet Lake about 15 km downstream from Pemberton on the eastern outskirts of the Mount Currie reserve of the Lil'wat branch of the St'at'imc people. From Pemberton Meadows , about 40 km upstream from Pemberton, to Lillooet Lake, the flat bottomlands of the river form the Pemberton Valley farming region.
6-560: The Pemberton Valley is a valley flanking the Lillooet River upstream from Lillooet Lake , including the communities of Mount Currie , Pemberton, British Columbia and the agricultural district surrounding them and flanking the river as far upstream as the Pemberton Meadows area. The term is normally used only to refer to inhabited parts of the valley, not the unsettled areas to the north of Pemberton Meadows although
12-627: A location in the Cariboo Regional District , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lillooet River Below the 30 km (18.6 mi) length of Lillooet Lake , it resumes again just north of the native community and ghost town of Skookumchuck Hot Springs , which is known in the St'at'imcets language as Skatin . The lower stretch of the Lillooet River, from Lillooet Lake to Harrison Lake ,
18-760: Is approximately 55 km (c. 34 mi) in length. Its main tributaries are Meager Creek , the Ryan River , the Green River , and the Birkenhead River . Below Harrison Lake , the stream is renamed as the Harrison River , which enters the Fraser near the First Nations community of Chehalis . The lower Lillooet River and Lillooet Lake were part of a short-lived main route between
24-526: The Devonshire Moors. The river name was changed formally on March 31, 1915 with "Alouette" chosen because of its resemblance to the sound of "Lillooet". The Lillooet River was dammed with breccia from a Plinian style eruption of the Mount Meager massif 2,400 years ago. The breccia damming the Lillooet River was not very strong, and the water soon eroded the breccia that was damming
30-781: The Coast and the Interior in the days of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush . See the Douglas Road . Until the 1910s, the name Lillooet River also applied to what is now the Alouette River in Maple Ridge ; the neighbourhood that grew up on its south branch became known as South Lillooet, but to avoid confusion the new postmaster was requested to come up with a name, choosing Yennadon after his family manor on
36-638: The official definition extends from the head of Lillooet Lake all the way up to the confluence of Meager Creek . Historically the region was part of the Lillooet Country but due to re-orientation of the area's economy and society since the opening and expansion of BC Highway 99 the area is now more considered to be part of the Sea-to-Sky Corridor . 50°30′00″N 123°00′00″W / 50.50000°N 123.00000°W / 50.50000; -123.00000 This article about
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