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NEW PRICE $249,000

Lot A PL KAP 65844; LD Yale Div of Yale (59) Sec 10, Town 7 Rge 26     PID 024-651-320

$654.38 (2009)

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Very private Fraser Riverfront acreage with easy access, several good building sites and many great spots for picnicking etc right on the river banks. Wonderful River swimming and great river boating for the adventuresome. The owner has seen sturgeon right off the beach. This is a perfect getaway, not far from anywhere in the lower mainland with beautiful property right on the MIGHTY FRASER.

NOTE – The property just to the west is also for sale, house, cabin etc.

30420 Trans Canada Highway – Same entrance as sign that reads 30370 Trans Canada Highway

Approximately 2 miles west of Yale, BC

Hydro at property line

Yale is an unincorporated though historically very important small town in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was founded in 1848 by the Hudson's Bay Company as Fort Yale by Ovid Allard, the appointed manager of the new post, who named it after his superior, James Murray Yale, then Chief Factor of the Columbia District. In its heyday at the peak of the gold rush, it was reputed to be the largest city west of Chicago and north of San Francisco. It also earned epithets such as "the wickedest little settlement in British Columbia" and "a veritable Sodom and Gomorrah" of vice and violence and lawlessness.

Yale played an important role in certain events of the gold rush period which threatened to throw B.C. over to American annexation, the Fraser Canyon War and McGowan's War, and it is to Yale that the Governor (on the first occasion) and the government officials (on the second) - Begbie, Brew and Moody came to address American miners and take control of matters that threatened the rule of the Crown over the Mainland (or "New Caledonia" as it was called before the creation of the mainland colony, although that term originally applied to the fur district northwest from present-day Prince George).

Yale is on the Fraser River and is generally considered to be on the dividing line between the Coast and the Interior. Immediately north of the village the Fraser Canyon begins, and the river is generally considered unnavigable past this point, although rough water is common on the Fraser anywhere upstream from Chilliwack, and even more so above Hope, about 20 miles south of Yale. But steamers could make it to Yale, good pilots and water conditions permitting, and the town had a busy dockside life as well as a variety of bars, restaurants, hotels, saloons and various services. Its maximum population during the gold rush was in the 15,000 range, although typically it housed 5-8,000. The higher figure relates to the evacuation of the Canyon during the Fraser Canyon War of 1858.

Being the head of river navigation also meant being the best location for the start of the Cariboo Wagon Road (as there were no usable roads between Yale and the settlements nearer the Fraser's mouth. The Cariboo Road ran from Yale to Barkerville via Lytton, Ashcroft and Quesnel, built in the early 1860s. By the start of the 1870s an overland route from New Westminster was finally built - the Yale Road, known today as Old Yale Road and still extant in sections from Surrey through Abbotsford and Chilliwack, though no longer entirely a continuous "highway". Its counterpart on the north side of the river was the Dewdney Trunk Road, built in the same period in advance of railway construction in the 1880s, but which ran only to Hatzic, just east of Mission City.

Because of its unique role as a transshipment point for the Cariboo Road, Yale prospered for another twenty years

Travelling north and east, travellers can definitely look upon Hope as a gateway to British Columbia's outdoor adventure. With so many sights and activities nearby, Hope is a recreation seekers paradise. From Hope you can gaze upon such diverse sites as towering mountain peaks, majestic Fraser River valleys, remote wilderness valleys and mountain slides as well as historical spots.

Fort Hope was founded in 1848 by the Hudson's Bay Co. as a fur brigade outpost. With the advent of the Fraser River gold rush in 1858, fur trading became a secondary industry. In June of that year, the first steamboat, the "Surprise" landed at Hope