Bridge of the Twenty-Three Camels
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Bridge of the Twenty-Three Camels is the official name of the highway bridge over the Fraser River at Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada, on BC Highway 99. It replaced the older 1913-vintage Lillooet Suspension Bridge, just upstream, which had no highway designation but connected the town to BC Highway 12, a designation which today only refers to the Lillooet-Lytton highway but, until the extension of the 99 designation from Pemberton, also included the Lillooet-Cache Creek highway.
As something of a joke on this name, the crossing of the Yalakom River at Moha, a small concrete truss span, sports the sign "Bridge of the Twenty-Three Chipmunks".
The bridge was opened on June 26, 1981 by Transportation and Highways Minister Alex Fraser and Thomas Waterland, Minister of Forests and the MLA for Yale-Lillooet.[2]
See also
- List of crossings of the Fraser River
- List of bridges in Canada
- Lytton Ferry
- Pavilion Ferry
- Low Bar Ferry
- Cariboo camels
References
- ^ British Columbia Ministry (1982). Minister of Transportation and Highways Report for the Fiscal Year 1981/82 (Report). Victoria: Government of British Columbia. p. 223. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
- ^ British Columbia Ministry (1982). Minister of Transportation and Highways Report for the Fiscal Year 1981/82 (Report). Victoria: Government of British Columbia. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
50°41′02″N 121°55′44″W / 50.6838°N 121.9289°W / 50.6838; -121.9289
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