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A trail through the Williams Lake river valley Rick Hansen, pictured here in 2008, grew up in Williams Lake Williams Lake Visitor Centre Rugby player, Jake Ilnicki, was born in Williams Lake In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada , Williams Lake had a population of 23,608 living in 4,736 of its 5,066 total private dwellings ...
St. Joseph's Mission was a Roman Catholic mission established near Williams Lake, British Columbia in 1867. The mission was operated by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate . It is primarily known for the notorious [ 2 ] St. Joseph's Indian Residential School located on the property, a part of the Canadian Indian residential school system ...
Williams Lake Indian Reserve, also called the Williams Lake First Nation or the Williams Lake Band Reservation and commonly referred to locally as the Sugarcane Reserve, aka Sugarcane or The Cane or SCB, [1] is an Indian reserve in British Columbia, Canada, located at the east end of Williams Lake and 12 km (~7 miles) east of the city of the same name, on the right bank of the San Jose River.
The Williams Lake Band has eight reserve landsites in British Columbia. The total area of Williams Lake First Nation reserve land is 1,927 ha. Indian Reserve lands of the Williams Lake Band are: [ 2 ] As explained before, these reserves were unilaterally defined by the Government of British Columbia, and thus the Band has never retracted its ...
Williams Lake is a lake in the city of the same name in the Cariboo region of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Williams Lake Indian Reserve No. 1, a.k.a. "Sugarcane Reserve" is located around the east end of the lake. British Columbia provincial highway 97, the Cariboo Highway, runs along the lake's northern side.
In 1863, Pinchbeck began a common-law marriage with Chulminick, a local First Nations Shuswap woman, who may have been the daughter of Chief William, for whom Williams Lake is named. [4] Their home was located where the Williams Lake Stampede Grounds are today. They had two sons, William Felix, born in 1867 and James, born in 1872.
Williams Lake (British Columbia), namesake of the city Williams Lake (Cumberland), Cumberland County, Nova Scotia Williams Lake (Goffs), in Goffs, Nova Scotia Williams Lake (Halifax)
The San Jose River is a river in the Cariboo region of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada.It rises in the area just northwest of 100 Mile House and includes in its watershed Lac La Hache, flowing northwestwards from there to its mouth at the head of Williams Lake, at the city of the same name.