Fort Fraser, British Columbia

It can be found near the geographical centre of British Columbia, Canada, 44 km (27 mi) west of Vanderhoof on the Yellowhead Highway.

Originally established in 1806 as a North West Company fur trading post by the explorer Simon Fraser, it is one of present-day British Columbia's oldest permanent European-founded settlements.

[1] The area around the community is also recorded as the site of the first land in British Columbia cultivated by non-First Nations people.

The original site of the fort is 4 km (2 mi) to the west, in Beaumont Provincial Park.

The present community is located at the site of the last spike of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, driven on April 7, 1914.