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Riverfront Trail Eagle River Scenes, Sicamous BC Canada |
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by Don Drews Fotofan4life |
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This 2.5 km flat loop trail, situated on a river meander |
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at the Eagle River delta, begins at the Sicamous public |
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beach parking lot where the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) |
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bridge (1962) and twin track Canadian Pacific Railway |
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(CPR) swing bridge (1982) cross the Sicamous Narrows |
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connecting Mara and Shuswap Lakes. The trail crosses the |
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public park and the Finlayson Street pedestrian bridge, |
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then continues along the water's edge to the River Front |
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Nature Park where it enters a cottonwood-dominated grove |
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with several lookouts over the Eagle River and Larch |
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Hills to the west. vThis lower stretch of the Eagle River |
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meanders through deposits of river silt and glacial lake |
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peat, some nearly 6 metres deep. The Eagle Valley is |
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comprised of Cambrian Period metamorphic rocks, which are |
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exposed as highway rock cuts at the CPR hill (Old |
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Spallumcheen Road). The TCH here (the Canoe Sicamous |
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road) was first built 1929-1934 with labour from a |
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Depression-era relief camp, then rebuilt in 1957; the 242 |
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metre (795 ft), two-lane R.W. Bruhn bridge is scheduled |
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for replacement with a four-lane raised structure in the |
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mid-2020s. The CPR main line, spanning Canada, was |
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completed on Nov. 5, 1885 at nearby Craigellachie. |
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Traditional home of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) First |
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Nations, the area contains evidence of indigenous |
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occupation over three millennia. A Hudson's Bay Company |
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outpost, located at the river's mouth, opened in the |
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1840s. A boom-town, called Eagle Pass Landing, briefly |
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existed during the 1865 Big Bend Gold Rush. For more |
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information, please see Jim Cooperman's Everything |
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Shuswap (Shuswap Press, 2017). |
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Date Published: 2023-08-07 04:23:36 |
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Identifier: 935-vs-230801-dd-riverfront-trail-eagle-river-scenes-sicam… |
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Item Size: 152961600 |
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Language: eng |
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Media Type: movies |
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# Topics |
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Riverfront Trail |
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Sicamous Narrows |
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Sicamous |
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RW Bruhn bridge |
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CSRD |
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Columbia Shuswap Regional District |
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Eagle River |
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Shuswap Lake |
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British Columbia |
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Canada |
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Ox-eye Daisy |
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Chrysanthemum leucanthemum |
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Rocky Mountain Iris |
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Iris missouriensis |
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Jack van Nordheim |
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Chris Haugen |
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