City of Williams Lake
Location of Williams Lake in British Columbia
Coordinates: 52°07′46″N 122°08′18″W / 52.12944, -122.13833
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Region	Cariboo
Regional district	Cariboo Regional District
Incorporated	1929
Government
- Governing body	Williams Lake City Council
- Mayor	Scott Nelson
- City Manager	Alberto De Feo
Area
- City	33.03 km²  (12.8 sq mi)
Elevation	600 m (1,969 ft)
Population (2006)
- City	11,889
Time zone	PST (UTC-8)
Highways	20 97

Williams Lake also known as BC's Stampede Capital (and jokingly refered to as "Willie's Puddle") is a city in British Columbia, Canada. Located in the Cariboo District, it is the largest urban centre between Kamloops and Prince George. The population is 10,744.^[1] Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (713x698, 57 KB) Location of Williams Lake, Cariboo District, BC File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Williams Lake, British Columbia ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo - Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 36 - Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area  Ranked 4th - Total 944,735 km... Image File history File links Flag_of_Canada. ... Regions Political culture Foreign relations Other countriesAtlas  Politics Portal      Canada is a federation which consists of ten provinces that, with three territories, make up the worlds second largest country in total area. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_British_Columbia. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo - Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 36 - Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area  Ranked 4th - Total 944,735 km... This is a list of regions of Canada that are not provinces or counties. ... The Cariboo is a region of British Columbia along a plateau stretching from the Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo Mountains. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Cariboo Regional District, British Columbia The Cariboo Regional District spans the towns of Quesnel, Williams Lake, 100 Mile House, and Wells in the central interior of British Columbia. ... Scott Nelson (born September 6, 1985) is an American soccer player who currently plays for the Houston Dynamo team in Major League Soccer. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... The metre or meter is a measure of length. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... The Pacific Standard Time Zone is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ... −12 | −11 | −10 | −9:30 | −9 | −8 | −7 | −6 | −5 | −4 | −3:30 | −3 | −2:30 | −2 | −1 | −0:25 | UTC (0) | +0:20 | +0:30 | +1 | +2 | +3 | +3:30 | +4 | +4:30 | +4:51 | +5 | +5:30 | +5:40 | +5:45 | +6 | +6:30 | +7 | +7:20 | +7... This is a list of Albertas primary and secondary highways: Primary highways These are the main highways in Alberta. ... British Columbia provincial highway 20, known as the Chilcotin Highway or the Freedom Highway, is an east-west highway in a region of the province known as the Interior Plateau. ... British Columbia provincial highway 97 is the longest continuously-numbered route in the province, going for 2,081 km all the way from the Canada/U.S. border in the south to the British Columbia/Yukon border in the north. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo - Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 36 - Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area  Ranked 4th - Total 944,735 km... The Cariboo is a region of British Columbia along a plateau stretching from the Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo Mountains. ... Kamloops is a city in south central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River and near Kamloops Lake. ... These cutbanks on the Nechako River are Prince Georges signature natural landmark. ...

Williams Lake is the proud home of the famous annual Williams Lake Stampede, which takes place on the Canada Day long weekend. Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada) is Canadas national holiday, marking the establishment of Canada as a self-governing Dominion on July 1, 1867. ...

Williams Lake is the home town of Rick Hansen, the Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist for people with spinal cord injuries, who became famous during his fundraising Man in Motion world tour. // Born in Port Alberni, British Columbia, Hansen grew up in Williams Lake, British Columbia. ... Paraplegia is a condition where the lower half of a patients body is paralyzed and cannot move. ... Look up Athlete in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change. ... The Spinal cord nested in the vertebral column. ...

History

Williams Lake is named in honor of Chief William, whose counsel prevented the First Nations tribes of Shuswap and Dene from joining the Chilcotin in their uprising against the settlers.^[2] The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view. ... First Nations is a term of ethnicity used in Canada. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... The Dene are a group of First Nations that live in the Arctic regions of Canada. ... The Tsilhqot’in (also Chilcotin, Tsilqotin, Tŝinlhqot’in, Chilkhodin, Tsilkótin, Tsilkotin) are a Northern Athabaskan First Nations people that live in British Columbia, Canada. ...

Main article: Chilcotin War

The story of Williams Lake began in 1860 during the Cariboo Gold Rush when Gold Commissioner Philip Nind and Constable William Pinchbeck arrived from Victoria to organize a local government and maintain law and order. The Chilcotin War was a confrontation in 1864 between members of the Tsilhqotin (Chilcotin) First Nation in British Columbia and road construction workers. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... The Cariboo Gold Rush is the most famous of the gold rushes in British Columbia and is erroneously sometimes mentioned as the reason for the creation of the Colony of British Columbia. ... Gold Commissioner as the name of an important regional administrative post in the Colony of British Columbia. ... A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in law enforcement. ... William Pinchbeck was one of the original settlers in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada. ... Location of Victoria within the Capital Regional District in British Columbia, Canada Country Canada Province British Columbia Regional District Capital Incorporated 1862[1] Government  - Mayor Alan Lowe (past mayors)  - Governing body Victoria City Council  - MP Denise Savoie  - MLAs Carole James, Rob Fleming Area [2]  - City 19. ...

At the time, two pack trails led to the goldfields, one from the Douglas Road and another trail through the Fraser Canyon. Both met at William's Lake, which made it a good choice for settlers and merchants. By 1861, Commissioner Nind had built a government house and had requested the funds to build a jail. With the center of local government being at Williams Lake, the miners and businessmen all had to travel there to conduct their business and soon the town had a post office, a courthouse, a roadhouse and the jail that Nind had requested. Meanwhile, William Pinchbeck had not been idle and had built his own roadhouse, saloon and store. Eventually he would own most of the valley.^[3] The Douglas Road, aka the Lillooet Trail, Harrison Trail or Lakes Route, was a goldrush-era transportation route from the British Columbia Coast to the Interior. ... View of Fraser Canyon near Fountain, BC View of Fraser Canyon looking upstream from Fountain, B.C. The Fraser Canyon is a stretch of the Fraser River where it descends rapidly through narrow rock gorges in the Coast Mountains enroute from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia to the Fraser... In most counties in the United States the local trial courts conduct their business in a centrally located courthouse which may also house the offices of the county treasurer, clerk and recorder and assessor. ... A roadhouse is a theatre building that does not house a producing company of its own, but instead rents its facility to production companies. ...

In 1863, the town was excited by the news of the construction of Cariboo Road, believing it would pass through their already established and important trading center. However, the roadbuilder Gustavus Blin Wright rerouted the original trail so that it bypassed Williams Lake and went through 150 Mile House instead.^[4] Route of the Cariboo Road in red. ... Gustavus Blin Wright 1870 Gustavus Blin Wright was a pioneer roadbuilder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada. ... 150 Mile House (also refered to as the 50)is an unincorporated settlement of nearly 1,300 in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. ...

The Williams Lake by-pass was the coming of doom for Williams Lake and accusations flew that Gustavus Blin Wright had changed the route for his own personal benefit as he owned a roadhouse at Deep Creek along the new route. Regardless of Wright's motives, Williams Lake was forgotten and wouldn't be reborn until nearly half a century later with the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, later BC Rail and now CN Rail. The British Columbia Railway (BCR; AAR reporting marks BCOL, BCIT), known as BC Rail since 1984, was a railway that operated in the Canadian province of British Columbia. ... BC Rail (AAR reporting marks BCOL and BCIT), known as the British Columbia Railway between 1972 and 1984 and as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE; AAR reporting marks PGE and PGER) before 1972, was a railway that operated in the Canadian province of British Columbia between 1912 and 2004. ... CN redirects here, as its the most common usage of the abbreviation in Canada; for more uses, see CN (disambiguation). ...

Geography

The City of Williams Lake has a total land area of 33.03 square kilometers or 2,486.6 hectares and its market area covers more than 12,000 square kilometers. The population of the city and market area is approximately 25,120. A hectare (symbol ha) is a metric unit of surface area, equal to 100 ares (the name is a contraction of the SI prefix hecto + are). ...

The city's elevation is 586 meters (1,993 feet), whereas the airport's elevation is 940 meters (3,085 feet),

Distances from Williams Lake to:

• 100 Mile House 90 km
• Prince George 240 km

• Kamloops 285 km
• Bella Coola 452 km
• Vancouver 540 km

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Economy

The primary industries in Williams Lake are forestry, logging, milling, mining and ranching. A decidous beech forest in Slovenia. ... Chuquicamata, the largest open pit copper mine in the world, Chile. ... Ranching is the raising of cattle or sheep on rangeland, although one might also speak of ranching with regard to less common livestock such as elk, bison or emu. ...

Education

Williams Lake is served by the Cariboo-Chilcotin School District 27 School District 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin is a school district in central British Columbia. ...

Elementary schools

• Cataline Elementary School
• Chilcotin Road Elementary School
• Glendale Elementary School
• Kwaleen Elementary School
• Marie Sharpe Elementary School
• Nesika Elementary School
• Mountview Elementary School
• Wildwood Elementary School

Cataline Elementary is a public elementary school in Williams Lake, British Columbia part of School District 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin. ... Chilcotin Road Elementary is a public elementary school in Williams Lake, British Columbia part of School District 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin. ... Glendale Elementary is a public elementary school in Williams Lake, British Columbia part of School District 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin. ... Kwaleen Elementary is a public elementary school in Williams Lake, British Columbia part of School District 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin. ... Marie Sharpe Elementary is a public elementary school in Williams Lake, British Columbia part of School District 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin. ... Nesika Elementary is a public elementary school in Williams Lake, British Columbia part of School District 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin. ... Mountview Elementary is a public elementary school in Williams Lake, British Columbia part of School District 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin. ... Wildwood Elementary School may refer to: Wildwood Elementary School (British Columbia), in British Columbia, [[Canada Wildwood Elementary School (California), in Piedmont, California, USA Category: ...

Secondary schools

• Columneetza Secondary School
• Williams Lake Secondary School

Columneetza Secondary is a public high school in Williams Lake, British Columbia part of School District 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin. ... Williams Lake Secondary School is a public high school in Williams Lake, British Columbia part of School District 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin. ...

Colleges and Universities

The Thompson Rivers University has a campus in Williams Lake and offers a wide variety of programs and courses including university transfers, certificate and diploma programs, trades and technology, and university and career preparation. The Elder College is another local division of the Thompson Rivers University and offers programs and opportunities for people who are 50+ and are interested in participating in the programs, courses and special events. Prime Minister Paul Martin at the official opening Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada was formally inaugurated April 1, 2005 and is the result of the merger of the University College of the Cariboo and British Columbia Open University. ... The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campuses) is derived from the (identical) Latin word for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ...

Sports and Recreation

• The Williams Lake Timberwolves will take a leave of absence for the 2007-08 season and will resume play for the 2008-09 after their relocation to Wenatchee, Washington, USA.
• Williams Lake has facilities for curling, golf, tennis, swimming and baseball.
• Visitors can also enjoy skiing and snowboarding at the Mount Timothy Ski Area.
• For race enthusiaists, Thunder Mountain Speedway holds stock car races and the very popular, Crash-to-Pass races in the summer months.

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Arts and culture

• The Museum of the Cariboo-Chicotin offers a glimpse into the Central Cariboo's fascinating history and is home to the BC Cowboy Hall of Fame.
• Williams Lake Studio Theater Society has now operated for more than fifty years.

Transportation

Williams Lake is located on the junction of Highway 97 and Highway 20. British Columbia provincial highway 97 is the longest continuously-numbered route in the province, going for 2,081 km all the way from the Canada/U.S. border in the south to the British Columbia/Yukon border in the north. ... British Columbia provincial highway 20, known as the Chilcotin Highway or the Freedom Highway, is an east-west highway in a region of the province known as the Interior Plateau. ...

Greyhound Bus Lines provides bus service south to Vancouver and north to Prince George and west to Bella Coola. Greyhound Lines is the largest intercity common carrier of passengers by bus in North America, serving 2200 destinations in the United States. ... Vancouver (pronounced: ) is a city located in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. ... These cutbanks on the Nechako River are Prince Georges signature natural landmark. ... Bella Coola may refer to several things, all closely related to a geographic area within British Columbias Central Coast. ...

CN Rail offers freight service north and south of Williams Lake. CN redirects here, as its the most common usage of the abbreviation in Canada; for more uses, see CN (disambiguation). ...

The Williams Lake Regional Airport is located 14 kilometers north of the city and was opened in 1956 by Transport Canada and on January 1, 1997 the ownership of the airport was tranferred to the City of Williams Lake. Transport Canada is the department within the government of Canada which is responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of transportation in Canada. ...

Local public transportation consists of the BC Transit and Handy Dart bus service. BC Transit is a provincial crown agency responsible for coordinating the delivery of public transportation within British Columbia, Canada, outside of Greater Vancouver. ...

Local attractions

Held annually, on the Canada Day long weekend, the Williams Lake Stampede features Canadian Professional Rodeo Association action including bull riding, barrel racing, bareback riding and chuckwagon races. The Williams Lake Stampede plays host to many top cowboys and international rodeo competitors from Canada and the United States. Bull Riding in Del Rio, Texas Bull riding is a rodeo sport that involves a rider getting on a large male bovine, and attempting to stay mounted for at least 8 seconds. ... A professional barrel racer Barrel racing, is a rodeo event that features a horse or barrel racer and one rider, running a cloverleaf pattern around three barrels in a triangular arrangement. ... Bareback can refer to riding horses without a saddle Unprotected sexual activity, sexual activity in which a condom is not used. ... A chuckwagon was originally a wagon that carried food and cooking equipment on the prairies of the United States and perhaps Canada. ... This article is about race as an intraspecies classification. ... The classic vision of the American cowboy, as portrayed by Frederic Remington A cowboy (Spanish vaquero) tends cattle and horses on cattle ranches in North and South America. ... It has been suggested that History of rodeo be merged into this article or section. ...

Media

Radio

FM radio FM radio is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. ...

• CFFM FM 97.5 The Max

AM radio Mediumwave radio transmissions (sometimes called Medium frequency or MF) are those between the frequencies of 300 kHz and 3000 kHz. ...

• AM 570 The Wolf

Publications

• Williams Lake Tribune
• Cariboo Advisor

Bibliography

• Cariboo-Chilcotin Pioneer People and Places Irene Stangoe ISBN 1-895811-12-0

References

External links

• City of Williams Lake
• Williams Lake Stampede
• Williams Lake Campus of Thompson Rivers College
• Elder College
• CFFM 97.5 The Max
• AM 570 The Wolf
• William's Lake Tribune
• Museum of the Cariboo-Chilcotin
• Williams Lake Studio Theater Society
• Williams Lake Discussion Forums
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