SODA CREEK

The First Glimpse the Tourist Obtains of the Fraser River.

SODA CREEK

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SODA CREEK

ODA Creek is a village and Post Office on the Cariboo Road about 55
miles south of Quesnel. It is at the junction of Soda Creek and the
Fraser River, and it is here the tourist gets his first glimpse of the Fraser
after leaving Ashcroft. It was formerly the head of navigation on the Fraser,
and before the advent of the P. G. E. Railway was served by the B. C. Ex-

press steamers, and the Inland Express Company’s stage.

It has a Dominion Government Telegraph office, a flour mill, public
school, church and hotel.

Local resources are cattle, sheep and hog raising, wheat, oats, barley,
rye, alfalfa and timothy. Wheat grown here reaches forty bushels to the
acre.

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