Cache Creek is a historic transportation junction and incorporated

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northeast of

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, Canada. It is on the

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in the province of

at a junction with Highway 97. The same intersection and the town that grew around it was at the point on the

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where a branch road, and previously only a trail, led east to Savona's Ferry on

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. This community is also the point at which a small stream, once known as Riviere de la Cache, joins the Bonaparte River.Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973, p. 35 The name is derived, apparently, from a ''cache'' or buried and hidden supply and trade goods depot used by the fur traders of either the

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or its rival the North West Company. Although it was first incorporated as a Local District municipality with the name Cache Creek in 1959, the name has been associated with this community since long before incorporation. The Cache Creek post office was established in 1868. Although still very active with traffic, Cache Creek was extremely busy for a few decades before the

was superseded by the newer and shorter Coquihalla Highway, which bypasses the

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and Thompson Canyons between Hope and Kamloops via Merritt, about southeast. The nearby fossil locality, the McAbee fossil beds, is noted for the wide diversity of

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plants and animals preserved in the shale, including the extinct plants '' Dillhoffia'' and '' Trochodendron drachukii''. The town lends its name to significant geological features, dating back to the Carboniferous, whose rocks are exposed in the area,

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and Cache Creek Ocean. The village of Cache Creek is also served by a community television station (run by the Ash-Creek Television Society), CH4472 in the neighbouring town of Ashcroft on VHF channel 4 (with an effective radiated power of 74 watts at

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), with a repeater (CH4473 on VHF 8, with an effective radiated power of 49 watts at ) in Cache Creek, British Columbia. The town is also served by CFMA-FM 105.9, a

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station run by the Ash-Creek Television Society.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by Statistics Canada, Cache Creek had a population of 969 living in 471 of its 522 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 963. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

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