Pemberton Meadows is an unincorporated community on the west shore of the Lillooet River in the Squamish-Lillooet region of southwestern British Columbia.

[2] Joseph Despard Pemberton, who was a surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company and Surveyor-General for the Colony of Vancouver Island in the 1850s,[3] probably never visited the area.

[9] Around 1904, preemptions were made by James Ryan on the local creek named after him and by Arthur Keirstead about 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Pemberton.

[12] Jack Ronayne also kept weather records for the government and was first to realize that the high livestock losses in the valley were due to goitre, which was treatable by administering iodine doses.

[13] Crops such as hay and potatoes, which had been grown mainly for local use, found new customers with the arrival of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) construction crews in 1913.

The formerly smaller subsistence operations soon planted greater acreages of wheat, oats and peas, and expanded dairy farming.

During the 1930s, professionals from the Department of Agriculture were judging the exhibits at the fall fairs held at the Pemberton Meadows school.

[19] The annual Slow Food Cycle Sunday is a 50-kilometre (31 mi) bicycle tour of Pemberton Meadows, which was founded in 2005 at Helmer's Organic Farm.

[20] This agri-tourism event provides cyclists with the opportunity to purchase or sample local produce at participating farms along the route.

[26] Cut poles were dragged overland or rafted downriver to Mile 60 (east of Pemberton) for loading onto railway cars.

At a camp on the upper end of Lillooet Lake, the company hauled using A-frame logging structures supplemented by crawler tractors.

[34] Christine Lanoville was the inaugural teacher when the Pemberton Meadows school opened in August 1915, but the schoolhouse was not completed until four months later.

[52] In fall 1940, heavy rains breached inadequate dykes causing serious crop and livestock losses and property damage.

In a tri-partite agreement with federal and provincial governments, the organization dyked and straightened the Lillooet River lowering the level by 4.6 metres (15 ft).

[57] The flood risk from the Lillooet River was increased by the 2010 Capricorn Creek landslide, the largest in recorded Canadian history.

The resulting sediment moving downstream has made the river shallower, reducing flow capacity and increasing vulnerability to floods.