Bridge of the Twenty-Three Camels is the official name of the highway bridge over the
Fraser River at
Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada, on
BC Highway 99. It replaced the older 1913-vintage
Lillooet Suspension Bridge, just upstream, which had no highway designation but connected the town to
BC Highway 12, a designation which today only refers to the Lillooet-Lytton highway but, until the extension of the 99 designation from
Pemberton, also included the Lillooet-Cache Creek highway.
As something of a joke on this name, the crossing of the
Yalakom River The Yalakom River is a tributary of the Bridge River, which is one of the principal tributaries of the Fraser River, entering it near the town of Lillooet, British Columbia. In frontier times it was also known as the North Fork of the Bridge Rive ...
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Moha, a small concrete truss span, sports the sign "Bridge of the Twenty-Three Chipmunks".
The bridge was opened on June 26, 1981 by Transportation and Highways Minister
Alex Fraser and
Thomas Waterland, Minister of Forests and the MLA for Yale-Lillooet.
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See also
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List of crossings of the Fraser River
This is a list of bridges, tunnels, and other crossings of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It includes both functional crossings and historic crossings which no longer exist, and lists them in sequence from the South ...
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List of bridges in Canada
This is a list of bridges and viaducts in Canada, including those for pedestrians and vehicular traffic.
Historical and architectural interest bridges
There are only a few covered bridges left in Canada compared to all those that were built in t ...
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Lytton Ferry
The Lytton Ferry is a cable ferry across the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada. It is situated about north of Lytton.
Technically, the ferry is a reaction ferry, which is propelled by the current of the water. An overhead cable is su ...
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Pavilion Ferry
In architecture, ''pavilion'' has several meanings:
* It may be a subsidiary building that is either positioned separately or as an attachment to a main building. Often it is associated with pleasure. In palaces and traditional mansions of Asia ...
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Low Bar Ferry
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Cariboo camels
References
Fraser Canyon
Bridges over the Fraser River
Lillooet Country
Road bridges in British Columbia
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