Upper Hat Creek is a rural locality and ranching community in
British Columbia, Canada, located roughly midway between the towns of
Cache Creek and
Lillooet, located near the headwaters of
Hat Creek.
Comprising the upper basin of
Hat Creek the area is home to some of the oldest ranches in British Columbia. At the area's northeastern edge, near
Marble Canyon, large
lignite
Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat. It has a carbon content around 25–35%, and is considered the lowest rank of coal due to its relatively low heat ...
deposits have spurred interest since first discovered by
prospectors during the
Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and are the basis of the aborted
Hat Creek coal-thermal proposal
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. During the gold rush, a trail from
Foster Bar
Foster Bar, originally known as Foster's Bar, is a gold-bearing sandbar in the Fraser Canyon of British Columbia, Canada as well as the name used for the surrounding locality, which includes Nesikep Indian Reserve 6 and Nesikep Indian Reserve 6A ...
led through Upper Hat Creek to the
Bonaparte River The Bonaparte River is a tributary of the Thompson River, joining it at the community of Ashcroft, British Columbia. The river is about long, including the length of Bonaparte Lake. Rising on the Silwhoiakun Plateau to the northwest of Kamloops, B ...
and then northwards via the
Brigade Trail.
References
See also
*
Blue Earth Lake
Blue Earth Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Upper Hat Creek area at the south end of the Cornwall Hills, just northwest of Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada.
See also
* Bedard Aspen Provincial Park
* Cornwall Hills Provincial P ...
Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia
Thompson Country
Lillooet Country
Populated places in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District
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