Canada Tour/ Fraser River 1 xPiP

Along the Fraser River
Fraser River is the longest river in British Columbia with a length of 1,375 km. It originates on the west side of the Rocky Mountains in Mount Robson Provincial Park and ends in the Strait of Georgia near Vancouver. The river was a transportation route and a source of food for the indigenous people of the region. In 1858, gold was found on sandbars south of Yale , triggering the Fraser River gold rush.

The river initially flows slowly northwest in meandering channels along the flat valley floor of the Rocky Mountain Trench to Prince George, BC, where it makes a bend to the south,
south of Quesnel it enters Fraser Canyon. Here the river has cut 300-600 m deep into the bedrock. At Hell's Gate, south of Boston Bar, the river is narrowed to 35 m.
At Hope, the river turns west, and the gradient of the river becomes flatter. The valley becomes wide to a delta about 50 km wide, the river empties into the Strait of Georgia at Vancouver . The water that flows through the Fraser River comes mainly from the snowmelt, the largest flow from May to July and the smallest from January to March.