August 19, 1863:Visited my cousins. I have done a cleansing ritual and said more prayers for Dr. R. I do not know what to do…
MOUNT CURRIE HEART OF A PEOPLE
Mount Currie is the heart of the Mount Currie Reserve of the Lil’wat group of the Stl’atl’lmx Nation and has been home to the Lil’wat for thousands of years. Mount Currie was named after Scottish settler John Currie. Failing to make his fortune as a gold seeker in California and the Cariboo, he turned to ranching and finally settled near Pemberton with his First Nations Lillooet wife in 1885.
For more information about Mount Currie, please visit www.lilwat.ca.
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Three Fun Facts about Mount Currie
The area abounds with rock petroglyphs dating back 2,500 years ago. During a road construction project in 2001, a 7,400-year-old tool was discovered.
Some of the community’s houses were built around 1817 of dovetailed logs with the cracks between sealed with wattle – a construction so solid they've outlasted many of the modern homes.
Mount Currie is located on Highway 99, the Sea to Sky Highway, 40 minutes north of Whistler and 5 minutes east of Pemberton village.
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