The Cadwallader Range, originally named the Cadwallader Mountains, is a sub-range of the

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of the

Coast Mountains The Coast Mountains (french: La chaîne Côtière) are a major mountain range in the Pacific Coast Ranges of western North America, extending from southwestern Yukon through the Alaska Panhandle and virtually all of the Coast of British Columbia ...

in the

Bridge River The Bridge River is an approximately long river in southern British Columbia. It flows south-east from the Coast Mountains. Until 1961, it was a major tributary of the Fraser River, entering that stream about six miles upstream from the town of ...

Lillooet Country The Lillooet Country, also referred to as the Lillooet District, is a region spanning from the central Fraser Canyon town of Lillooet west to the valley of the Lillooet River, and including the valleys in between, in the Southern Interior of Br ...

of the South-Central Interior of British Columbia,

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, located between the south end of Anderson Lake (E) and the

Hurley River The Hurley River is a major tributary of the Bridge River of west-central British Columbia that was earlier known as the South Fork of that larger river. It was for a while known as "Hamilton's River" after Danny Hamilton, an American who was amo ...

. According to the provincial basemap, the precise alpine boundaries of the range are McGilliray Pass, at its eastern extremity and beyond which is the

Bendor Range The Bendor Range is a small but once-famous subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains, about It is approximately 7,000 square kilometres (2,700 mi2) in area and about 40 km long (NW to SE) and about 18 km at its widest. ...

, and the pass between Noel and Sockeye Creeks on its west, which is immediately north of the lower end of

Birkenhead Lake Birkenhead Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located in the Lillooet Country region to the northeast of Pemberton, British Columbia, Pemberton and immediately northwest of Birkenhead Peak and Gates Lake (a.k.a ...

. The officially unnamed range west of that has been called the Noel Range, after its main peak

Mount Noel Mount Noel is a Miocene volcanic complex in the Chilcotin Group in British Columbia, Canada, located southwest of Bralorne and north of a tributary of Noel Creek. It is east of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt and is made up of flat-lying, columna ...

. At the foot of the range along its northeast flank is

Cadwallader Creek Cadwallader Creek is an important tributary of the Hurley River in the Bridge River Country of the British Columbia Interior, Canada, most notable for its role as the home of the Bralorne and Pioneer Mines and associated gold claims and workings. ...

, scene of the historic and once-rich

Bralorne Bralorne ( ) is a historic Canadian gold mining community in the Bridge River District of British Columbia, some 130 km on dirt roads west of the town of Lillooet. Background Gold has been the central element in the area's history going ba ...

and Pioneer Mines and the ghost town of Bralorne (a.k.a. Bralorne-Pioneer). The range was named Cadwallader Mountains in 1917, and was renamed the Cadwallader Range in 1951. The name is derived from that of the creek, which was named after a Welshman Evan Cadwallader, his surname ultimately derives from a medieval

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king

Cadwaladr Cadwaladr ap Cadwallon (also spelled Cadwalader or Cadwallader in English) was king of Gwynedd in Wales from around 655 to 682 AD. Two devastating plagues happened during his reign, one in 664 and the other in 682; he himself was a victim of t ...

c.655 – 682 AD. Evan was a prospector who visited the area in 1865 as a member of an exploration party of four, commissioned by Governor Seymour to investigate mining potentials in the area, and who lived afterwards at Moodyville. A post office named for him operated from 1900 to 1902 somewhere along the creek's course, but its exact location is unknown.

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Mountain ranges of British Columbia Lillooet Country Pacific Ranges {{cariboo-geo-stub

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