North Bend is an unincorporated community in the

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region of

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, located across the

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"North Bend" (Canada).Maplandia.com
Accessed May 2010. from the town of

Boston Bar Boston Bar is an unincorporated community in the Fraser Canyon of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Name The name dates from the time of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush (1858–1861). A "bar" is a gold-bearing sandbar or sandy riverbank, and ...

. North Bend was originally known as Boston Bar, but that name moved across the Fraser River when the site was renamed North Bend.

History

North Bend was founded during the construction of the

Canadian Pacific Railway The Canadian Pacific Railway (french: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadi ...

in the 1880s and was the site of various Canadian Pacific Railway company offices and housing. Equipped with a small railway hotel,

House, aka the North Bend Hotel or the CPR Hotel, and another, larger hotel, the Mountain Hotel, and within a few hours' range of

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by rail, the town prospered until the era of highway travel, when it became isolated. It was connected to Boston Bar and the

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for many years by the Boston Bar Ferry, an

aerial cable An aerial cable or air cable is an insulated cable usually containing all conductors required for an electrical distribution system (typically using aerial bundled cables) or a telecommunication line, which is suspended between utility poles o ...

ferry which has since been replaced by a bridge built to expedite

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operations on the east bank of the Fraser in that area. North Bend today is part of the general Boston Bar-area community and shares community services with it. It was originally named Yankee Flats or Yankee Town.

References

External links

M. Kluckner's page on the North Bend General Store
{{authority control Canadian Pacific Railway Populated places in the Fraser Valley Regional District Fraser Canyon Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia Designated places in British Columbia Populated places on the Fraser River