High above the torrent the highway is flung.

smiling lands of Sumas and Chilliwack, and on to Hope, a former
stockaded fur-trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company, from
where the road leads to historic Yale, which in the days before the
gold-rush was also a fur-trading establishment. It has indeed seen
history in the making has old Yale, where the mighty Fraser breaks
through the granite walls of the Cascade Range.

Following as closely as possible the old road, the modern Cariboo
Road reaches through the canyons to Lytton—58 miles distant.

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