Wednesday, April 30, 2014

LAC LA HACHE


LAC LA HACHE


Is a small ranching and retirement community along Highway #97, 26 kilometers north of 100 Mile House in the Cariboo region. Known as the “longest town in the Cariboo”, this community began as a stopping place on the Cariboo Wagon Road on the way to Barkerville, during the Cariboo Gold Rush days of the 1860s. The community is named after a fur trader who dropping his axe into the lake and is known in French translation as “Axe Lake” There area several lodges around the vicinity of the area including Kokanee Bay, Lac La Hache Provincial Park, Fircrest Resort, Crystal Springs, as well as Mount Timothy Ski Resort.


LAC LA HACHE’S POPULATION: 245



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