Port Douglas, British Columbia

Port Douglas, sometimes referred to simply as Douglas, is a remote community in British Columbia, Canada at east of the mouth of the Lillooet River,[1] and at the head of Harrison Lake, which is the head of river navigation from the Strait of Georgia.

Port Douglas was the second major settlement of any size on the British Columbia mainland (after Yale) during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush.

Express and other freighting companies that relocated to the Fraser Canyon with the completion of the Cariboo Wagon Road in the mid-1860s.

Regular steamboat traffic to Port Douglas from Georgia Strait and New Westminster via the Fraser River ended in the 1890s, although the town was already in decline, only a handful of non-native residents remained.

The name Port Douglas today generally refers to that community and its location, as nothing remains of the frontier-era town.

Route of the Douglas Road (water portions in blue, land portions in red) and the Cariboo Road (green), location of Port Douglas is near centre of map