Talk:Douglas Road

Name discussion
The people of New Westminster journeyed over the Douglas Road to Brighton (subsequently Hastings), where swimming in the waters of the Inlet was a favourite pastime. History is repeating itself, in that the same spot to-day is the site of a supervised swimming-pool maintained by the City of Vancouver.

Were there TWO Douglas Roads or were they part of each other?

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I actually prefur to label this Douglas Road as Hastings Road. I live with-in sight of Douglas Road and Gilmore Avenue, in Burnaby. I have been collecting data on the history of this road. I know that in 1871 a Dr. Black died falling off a horse on Douglas Road not far from The Burnaby Village Museum. There was a Shaw Post Office at 4036 Douglas Road, near Gilmore Avenue, from 1924 to 1941. There was a Sutton gas station, in the same area.
 * Hastings Road was actually the road to Hastings, B.I. (New Brighton) from Gastown, it was a continuation of Powell.Skookum1 (talk) 04:22, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Hm maybe you're right, lately I was looking at some old maps of New West which had street-name/history info in the writeup; I'll try to find that again.Skookum1 (talk) 10:36, 21 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, there were two Douglas Roads; the article on the one you're talking about would be Douglas Road (Burnaby I suppose, even though a small chunk of it was in what's now Vancouver. This one, the one from Port Douglas to Lillooet, was the original one.  It gets more confusing when "Douglas Portage" comes into it (there were three.....).  There's an amazing picture in the VPL or BC Archives of some location along it, when it had new planking built; must be Holdom or somewhere because there's a big steep hill rising from this one little lonely store up a steep hill, with the sidewalk/road all just freshly built from newly-milled planks/beams.Skookum1 04:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)


 * The title Douglas Road is confusing. It is more often referred to as the Harrison-Lillooet Gold Rush Trail, and has been identified by the BC Heritage branch under that name.  We could avoid some of the confusion by simply changing the title (which likely also means changing many of the links - I'm  new here so don't know how to do that).

There is lots of this kind of confusion about naming throughout BC - at least 4 different locations referred to as Skookumchuck - one of which is the first nation community now referred to as Skatin First Nation, which is along this Harrison-Lillooet route. Also, the actual town of Lillooet is about 100 km from the Lillooet River, which passes through Mount Currie, home of teh original Lil'wat people that it is apparently named after. Must be really confusing for visitors trying to find their way around this area of southwestern BC. Heritagetrails 23:11, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Not those with maps LOL....Skatin First Nation is not a place, it is a government; the place is Skookumchuck Hot Springs, the Ucwalmicwts name for it is Skatin (means the same thing as "skookumchuck" - "rapids")....Douglas Road is the long-standing name of this route, and yes it's also known as the Harrison-Lillooet Gold Rush Trail, though that's a tourism-ism and not all that common; also known as the Lillooet Trail and also known as the Lakes Route; but historically and semi-officially known as the Douglas Road; there'd also be confusion with Lillooet Trail vs Lillooet Road, which is the paved part (today) of what had been the Lillooet Cattle Trail, which is another meaning of Lillooet Trail....again, for the Burnaby item, the proper dab - and it's much less important than the route from Port Douglas to Lillooet, is easily dabbed as Douglas Road (Burnaby) and yes, it was one of the earliest roads in that area; "Hastings Road" ran from Gastown, roughly along what today is Powell Street, to Hastings, B.I. aka New Brighton, the site of which is today's New Brighton Park.Skookum1 (talk) 03:01, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

New discussion
OK, one reason I never RM'd this is because of the many potential names. Harrison-Lillooet Trail, Douglas-Lillooet Road, Lakes Route are three of the options; not all. Just found some info on Douglas Road (Lower Mainland) (vs the original proposed dab "Burnaby" because it started in New Westminster and ended in Vancouver, though it now ends at Boundary Road and only exists by that name in certain sections in Burnaby, mostly from Halifax Ave to Boundary but also south of the freeway; Canada Way from Edmonds/8th to Willingdon, more or less, was the southeastern end of it, and Douglas Road was (p.74 on this document) the original name of 8th Street in New Westminster, from Columbia up. Historically that would be the primary use; as with "Cariboo Road" there are various meanings to it, likewise with Douglas Portage (of which there are three, the southern part of the Harrison-Lillooet route, the short montane "portage" from Yale to Spuzzum....and another somewhere. In modern use, "Douglas Road" is now the "branding" of the Anderson High Line Road from D'Arcy to Seton Portage, though that portion of the route was formerly entirely on Anderson Lake. So Douglas Road needs to be a dab, as does also Lillooet Trail. If BC Heritage is Harrison-Lillooet Trail, and I'd omit the "Gold Rush" part of their name because it's anachronistic, and they use "Gold Rush Trail" for other things, too.Skookum1 (talk) 09:16, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, though I've seen "Douglas Road" vs the Highline from D'Arcy to Seton, this news item uses "Douglas Trail".Skookum1 (talk) 09:23, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * This one uses "Douglas Trail Road".Skookum1 (talk) 09:24, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

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