Cache Creek, British Columbia
- This page is about the town in the Thompson Country of British Columbia. For the creek that is its namesake, see Cache Creek (British Columbia). For other locations named Cache Creek see Cache Creek.
| Cache Creek, British Columbia | |
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| Coordinates: 50°48′50″N 121°19′36″W / 50.81389°N 121.32667°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | British Columbia |
| Region | Thompson Country |
| Regional District | Thompson-Nicola |
| Incorporated | 1959 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | P. A. John Ranta |
| • Governing body | Cache Creek Village Council |
| Area | |
| • Total | 10.25 km2 (3.96 sq mi) |
| Elevation[1] | 396 m (1,300 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 1,040 |
| • Density | 101.5/km2 (263/sq mi) |
| Time zone | PST (UTC−8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC−7) |
| Highways | Highway 97 Highway 97C Highway 1 |
| Website | Town website |
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Coordinates: 50°48′43″N 121°19′24″W / 50.81194°N 121.32333°W
Cache Creek is a junction community 220 miles (350 km) northeast of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is on the Trans-Canada Highway in the province of British Columbia at its junction with northbound Highway 97. The same intersection and the town that grew around it was at the point on the Cariboo Wagon Road where a branch road, and previously only a trail, led east to Savona's Ferry on Kamloops Lake.
Its name is derived, apparently, from a cache or buried and hidden supply and tradegoods depot used by the fur traders of either the Hudson's Bay Company or its rival the North West Company.[2]
Although still very active with traffic, Cache Creek was extremely busy for a few decades before the Trans-Canada Highway was superseded by the newer and shorter Coquihalla Highway, which bypasses the Fraser and Thompson Canyons between Hope and Kamloops via Merritt, about 60 miles (97 km) southeast.
The nearby fossil locality of McAbee is noted for the wide diversity of Eocene plants and animals preserved in the shale, including the extinct plants Dillhoffia[3] and Trochodendron drachuckii.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ http://bccommunities.ca/cachecreek/index.php
- ^ "Cache Creek (creek)". BC Geographical Names. http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/9342.html.
- ^ Manchester, S.; Pigg, K. (2008). "The Eocene mystery flower of McAbee, British Columbia". Botany 86: 1034–1038. doi:10.1139/B08-044.
- ^ Pigg, K.B.; Dillhoff, R.M. (2007). "New diversity among the Trochodendraceae from the Early/Middle Eocene Okanogan Highlands of British Columbia, Canada, and Northeastern Washington State, United States". International Journal of Plant Sciences 168 (4): 521–532. doi:1058-5893/2007/16804-0013.
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