Pemberton Trail

PEMBERTON TRAIL connected LILLOOET with BURRARD INLET via PEMBERTON and SQUAMISH. Completed in 1877 at a cost 4 times the original estimate, the trail was supposed to provide a route for Interior cattle raisers (see CATTLE INDUSTRY) to get their meat to markets around Burrard Inlet. The initial drive proved the trail to be impractical and it fell into disuse. It was resurrected in 1891, when it was made passable for pack horses, and was then used regularly. During WWI the Pacific Great Eastern...

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