Williams Lake is a lake in the city of the
same name in the
Cariboo region of the
Central Interior of British Columbia,
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
.
Williams Lake Indian Reserve No. 1
Williams Lake Indian Reserve, also called the Williams Lake First Nation or the Williams Lake Band Reservation and commonly referred to locally as the Sugarcane Reserve, aka Sugarcane or The Cane or SCB, is an Indian reserve in British Columbia, C ...
, a.k.a. "Sugarcane Reserve" is located around the east end of the lake.
British Columbia provincial highway 97, the Cariboo Highway, runs along the lake's northern side.
It is fed by the northwest-flowing
San Jose River and drained to the
Fraser River via the
Williams Lake River.
BC Names/GeoBC entry "Williams Lake (lake)"
/ref>
Climate and Hydrography
Williams Lake has relatively lower water temperatures, because of its lower elevation compared to other lakes on the Cariboo Plateau
The Cariboo Plateau is a volcanic plateau in south-central British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Fraser Plateau that itself is a northward extension of the North American Plateau. The southern limit of the plateau is the Bonaparte River alth ...
.
See also
*List of lakes of British Columbia
This is an incomplete list of lakes of British Columbia, a province of Canada.
Larger lake statistics
*
List of lakes
1
* 101 Mile Lake
* 103 Mile Lake
* 105 Mile Lake
* 108 Mile Lake
A
* Adams Lake
* Alouette Lake
* Alta Lake ( ...
References
{{reflist
Lakes of the Cariboo
Cariboo Land District