Wednesday, July 9, 2008

FORT FRASER


FORT FRASER

Is a town located at the east end of Fraser Lake on Highway #16 (the Yellowhead Highway) about 140 kilometers west of Prince George in the heart of the Nechako Valley. The townsite was laid out in 1806 after Simon Fraser built a trading post for the Northwest Company. Hudson’s Bay Company bought the fort in 1821. Today pieces of rock foundation and some of British Columbia’s earliest agriculture took place is all of what is left of the fort. In 1914, the last spike of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was driven here and the community’s population boomed. Fort Fraser now relies on the forest industry as its main economic activity.


FORT FRASER’S POPULATION: 370


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