Port Douglas, British Columbia

Port Douglas is a parish in British Columbia on Harrison Lake , the starting point of the Georgia Strait .

Port Douglas, or simply Douglas, was the second significant settlement in the heartland of British Columbia after Yale during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush .

Starting from Port Douglas, the Douglas Road (also Lillooet Trail, Harrison Trail or Lakes Route ), a travel route over land and water, led to Lillooet . During its heyday, the community had thousands of residents. Many of the first companies on the mainland British Columbia originated there, including BX Express , which moved to Fraser Canyon after the Cariboo Road was completed in the 1860s .

When Douglas Road was abandoned, the population dropped rapidly and today the parish has completely disappeared. Only the area is still named, and the Douglas First Nation named itself after it.

Although the city had long since died out, steamboats regularly operated between the Strait of Georgia , New Westminster and Port Douglas across the Fraser River until the 1890s . In the 1970s, the last remnants of the settlement were removed in the course of a large logging campaign.

Port Douglas, Douglas Road and the Douglas Ranges to the west of the lake are named in honor of James Douglas , the first governor of British Columbia.

Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '15.2 "  N , 122 ° 9' 54"  W.