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100 Mile House was originally known as Bridge Creek House, named after the creek running through the area.Its origins as a settlement go back to the time when Thomas Miller owned a collection of ramshackle buildings serving the traffic of the gold rush as a resting point for travellers moving between Kamloops and Fort Alexandria, which was 158 kilometres (98 mi) north of 100 Mile House farther ...
100 Mile House Regional Transit System provides transit services in the Cariboo of British Columbia to 100 Mile House and communities north of 100 Mile House. The system is served by community shuttle-type buses from Monday to Friday.
Lone Butte is located 13 km (8 mi) southeast of 100 Mile House and is immediately north of the recreational lake-community of Green Lake.The vertical structure of Lone Butte forms a prominent monument that rises more than 50 m (160 ft) above the surrounding lowlands of the Cariboo Plateau.
The Douglas DC-6B plane crashed near 100 Mile House, British Columbia, taking the lives of all 52 aboard. [1] [2] An inquest determined that the explosion was the result of a bomb, but the crime remains unsolved. [1]
Highway 97 is a major highway in the Canadian province of British Columbia.It is the longest continuously numbered route in the province, running 2,081 km (1,293 mi) and is the only route that runs the entire north–south length of British Columbia, connecting the Canada–United States border near Osoyoos in the south to the British Columbia–Yukon boundary in the north at Watson Lake, Yukon.
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Cariboo Regional District had a population of 62,931 living in 27,614 of its 32,395 total private dwellings, a change of 1.5% from its 2016 population of 61,988.
At first glance, it looks like the start of a futuristic dystopian movie, set on a far-off planet. But these are the plans for a state-of-the-art linear city, right here on earth.
Bridge Creek is a creek in the South Cariboo region of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada.Its meandering course across the Cariboo Plateau is approximately 85 kilometres in length, beginning at Bridge Lake and running roughly westwards to the town of 100 Mile House (originally named Bridge Creek House) and from there turning and running northeast to Canim Lake (British Columbia).