Cheekye is an unincorporated locality on the

Cheakamus River The Cheakamus River (pron. CHEEK-a-mus) is a tributary of the Squamish River, beginning at the terminus of McBride Glacier on Mount Sir Richard in Garibaldi Provincial Park upstream from Cheakamus Lake on the southeastern outskirts of the res ...

just upstream from its confluence with its parent stream, the Squamish, and just north of Brackendale, British Columbia, which is part of the District of Squamish, British Columbia,

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. Formerly a passenger station on the

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and home to a fishing lodge and cabins, it was named for the

Cheekye River The Cheekye River is a river in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It flows west into the Cheakamus River and north of Squamish. See also *List of rivers of British Columbia The following is a partial list of rivers of British Columbia, orga ...

and had a post office from October 16, 1924 to August 8, 1931. It is the location of the only bridge across the

below the abandoned settlement of Garibaldi, leading to two roads, one northeast to the Paradise Valley neighbourhood, which lies along the Cheakamus below its canyon, and also to the main road up the Squamish Valley, leading to various Indian Reserves of the

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and beyond to the valleys of the Elaho and other tributaries of the Squamish.

References

BCGNIS "Cheekye" (locality)
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