Talk:Douglas Road
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The people of New Westminster journeyed over the Douglas Road to Brighton (subsequently Hastings), where swimming in the waters of the Inlet was a favourite pastime. History is repeating itself, in that the same spot to-day is the site of a supervised swimming-pool maintained by the City of Vancouver.
Were there TWO Douglas Roads or were they part of each other?
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I actually prefur to label this Douglas Road as Hastings Road.
I live with-in sight of Douglas Road and Gilmore Avenue, in Burnaby. I have been collecting data on the history of this road. I know that in 1871 a Dr. Black died falling off a horse on Douglas Road not far from The Burnaby Village Museum. There was a Shaw Post Office at 4036 Douglas Road, near Gilmore Avenue, from 1924 to 1941. There was a Sutton gas station, in the same area.
- Yes, there were two Douglas Roads; the article on the one you're talking about would be Douglas Road (Burnaby I suppose, even though a small chunk of it was in what's now Vancouver. This one, the one from Port Douglas to Lillooet, was the original one. It gets more confusing when "Douglas Portage" comes into it (there were three.....). There's an amazing picture in the VPL or BC Archives of some location along it, when it had new planking built; must be Holdom or somewhere because there's a big steep hill rising from this one little lonely store up a steep hill, with the sidewalk/road all just freshly built from newly-milled planks/beams.Skookum1 04:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- The title Douglas Road is confusing. It is more often referred to as the Harrison-Lillooet Gold Rush Trail, and has been identified by the BC Heritage branch under that name. We could avoid some of the confusion by simply changing the title (which likely also means changing many of the links - I'm new here so don't know how to do that).
There is lots of this kind of confusion about naming throughout BC - at least 4 different locations referred to as Skookumchuck - one of which is the first nation community now referred to as Skatin First Nation, which is along this Harrison-Lillooet route. Also, the actual town of Lillooet is about 100 km from the Lillooet River, which passes through Mount Currie, home of teh original Lil'wat people that it is apparently named after. Must be really confusing for visitors trying to find their way around this area of southwestern BC. Heritagetrails 23:11, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
