North Bend, British Columbia
North Bend | |
|---|---|
Unincorporated place | |
 | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  British Columbia |
| Population (2016) | |
• Total | 93[1] |
| Time zone | PST |
North Bend is an unincorporated community in the Fraser Canyon region of British Columbia, Canada, located across the Fraser River[2] from the town of Boston Bar. North Bend was originally known as Boston Bar, but that name moved across the Fraser River when the site was renamed North Bend.
History
[edit]North Bend was founded during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s and was the site of various Canadian Pacific Railway company offices and housing. Equipped with a small railway hotel, Fraser Canyon House, aka the North Bend Hotel or the CPR Hotel, and another, larger hotel, the Mountain Hotel, and within a few hours' range of Vancouver by rail, the town prospered until the era of highway travel, when it became isolated. It was connected to Boston Bar and the Trans-Canada Highway for many years by the Boston Bar Ferry, an aerial cable ferry which has since been replaced by a bridge built to expedite logging operations on the east bank of the Fraser in that area. North Bend today is part of the general Boston Bar-area community and shares community services with it.
It was originally named Yankee Flats or Yankee Town.[3]: 192
References
[edit]- ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census - North Bend, Unincorporated place [Designated place], British Columbia and British Columbia [Province]". Statistics Canada. Government of Canada. February 8, 2017. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "North Bend" (Canada). Maplandia.com. Accessed May 2010.
- ^ Akrigg, G.P.V.; Akrigg, Helen B. (1986), British Columbia Place Names (3rd, 1997 ed.), Vancouver: UBC Press, ISBN 0-7748-0636-2