Choate ( ) is a locality in the lower

Fraser Canyon The Fraser Canyon is a major landform of the Fraser River where it descends rapidly through narrow rock gorges in the Coast Mountains en route from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia to the Fraser Valley. Colloquially, the term "Fraser ...

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, approximately midway between the unincorporated town of

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(N) and the district municipality of Hope. A post office operated at Choate from 1923 to 1939. The designation of "flagstop" was changed to "locality" in 1984. Stullawheets Indian Reserve No. 8 of the

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is located at Choate, around its

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"station" (flagstop). Stulkawhits Creek, the namesake of the reserve, is at , flowing east out of the southern

Lillooet Ranges The Lillooet Ranges are the southeasternmost subdivision of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia. They are located between the drainage of the Lillooet River and Harrison Lake on the west and the canyon of the Fraser Rive ...

Name origin

Choate was named for

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bridge construction foreman

James Zacchaeus Choate James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat ...

, 1863–1930, who began work with the railway in 1888. He was born in

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and educated in that county and in Haldiman County. He had previously worked for the

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from 1880. His specialty was wooden bridge construction and resided in Vancouver, marrying a Miss Alice Crick in 1893 and had six children by her.BC Names/GeoBC entry "Choate"
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