Fraser River Bridge
....as seen from a distance with the mountains in the background and the broad, expansive mighty Fraser River flowing swiftly below it.
The bridge was built in the 1910s as part of the Kettle Valley Railway. It had a rail line on the lower deck (no longer in use) and vehicle lanes above it which are now part of the Trans-Canada Highway.
This same scene (minus the bridge and modern houses) would have been the one indigenous peoples, explorers (including Simon Fraser himself in 1808), and early settlers would have viewed as they paddled down the Fraser River in canoes.
Heading south and just around the bend, where the bridge now is situated, was Fort Hope, a Hudson's Bay trading post established in 1848. Paddle wheelers from Vancouver would arrive here carrying gold mining prospectors and others seeking their fortunes. From the fort, they made their way north along the "gold rush trail" to Yale and beyond, to the Caribou region's frontier towns like Barkerville, to pan for gold from 1858 on.
For more on the history and development of the town of Hope, check out:
Fraser River Bridge
....as seen from a distance with the mountains in the background and the broad, expansive mighty Fraser River flowing swiftly below it.
The bridge was built in the 1910s as part of the Kettle Valley Railway. It had a rail line on the lower deck (no longer in use) and vehicle lanes above it which are now part of the Trans-Canada Highway.
This same scene (minus the bridge and modern houses) would have been the one indigenous peoples, explorers (including Simon Fraser himself in 1808), and early settlers would have viewed as they paddled down the Fraser River in canoes.
Heading south and just around the bend, where the bridge now is situated, was Fort Hope, a Hudson's Bay trading post established in 1848. Paddle wheelers from Vancouver would arrive here carrying gold mining prospectors and others seeking their fortunes. From the fort, they made their way north along the "gold rush trail" to Yale and beyond, to the Caribou region's frontier towns like Barkerville, to pan for gold from 1858 on.
For more on the history and development of the town of Hope, check out: