Cheekye is an unincorporated locality on the

Cheakamus River The Cheakamus River (pron. CHEEK-a-mus) is a tributary of the Squamish River, beginning on the west slopes of Outlier Peak in Garibaldi Provincial Park upstream from Cheakamus Lake on the southeastern outskirts of the resort area of Whistler. T ...

just upstream from its confluence with its parent stream, the Squamish, and just north of

Brackendale, British Columbia Brackendale is a small community in the Canadian province of British Columbia just north of Squamish town centre, but still within the District of Squamish. It is located near the confluence of the Squamish River and the Cheakamus River. It is ...

, which is part of the District of Squamish, British Columbia,

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. Formerly a passenger station on the

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and home to a fishing lodge and cabins, it is named for the

Cheekye River The Cheekye River is a river in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It flows west into the Cheakamus River and north of Squamish, British Columbia, Squamish. References

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and had a post office from October 16, 1924 to August 8, 1931. It is the location of the only bridge across the

below the abandoned settlement of Garibaldi, leading to two roads, one northeast to the Paradise Valley neighbourhood, which lies along the Cheakamus below its canyon, and also to the main road up the Squamish Valley, leading to various Indian Reserves of the

Squamish Nation The Squamish Nation, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw () in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Sníchim (Squamish language), is an Indian Act government originally imposed on the Squamish (''Sḵwx̱wú7mesh'') by the Federal Government of Canada in the late 19th cen ...

and beyond to the valleys of the Elaho and other tributaries of the Squamish.

References

BCGNIS "Cheekye" (locality)
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