Siska, also known historically as Cisco,[1] is a locality in the Fraser Canyon, 9.4 kilometres south of the town of Lytton, British Columbia, Canada. It is at Siska that the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways switch from one side of the river to the other, because it is impossible for both rail lines to occupy the same bank of the Fraser, due to the narrow and steep terrain. The resulting pair of bridges, with the CNR bridge just upstream of the CPR's, and the CPR's bridge's west foot entering the Cantilever Bar Tunnel into the side of Cisco Bluff, remains one of the most famous images of the CPR's route through British Columbia today and is easily viewable from the adjacent Trans-Canada Highway.
The Cisco Bridges, the main landmark at Siska; CPR in foreground, CNR in background
Siska is also home to the Siska First Nation, a local government of the Nlaka'pamux peoples who have lived in the Fraser Canyon for thousands of years. The Siska First Nation rancherie - main residential area - is just off the highway on a broad benchland just below the CPR bridge, and has a general store, the museum and band office, plus other band services. One of the band's economic ventures, a project in applied ethnobotany intended to use traditional knowledge to help preserve the land against logging extraction through economic competition for forest leases, is the nurturing and harvesting of traditional food and other plant materials in the surrounding wilderness, made into health and bath products and teas and other products.[citation needed]
Siska is the northernmost point in the Fraser Canyon where bigleaf maple is found.[2] Other vegetation is noticeably denser than at Lytton, part of the transition from dry Interior to coast rainforest ecotypes that begins near Siska and is largely complete at Spuzzum.
siska, british, columbia, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, a. This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Siska British Columbia news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2008 Learn how and when to remove this message Siska also known historically as Cisco 1 is a locality in the Fraser Canyon 9 4 kilometres south of the town of Lytton British Columbia Canada It is at Siska that the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways switch from one side of the river to the other because it is impossible for both rail lines to occupy the same bank of the Fraser due to the narrow and steep terrain The resulting pair of bridges with the CNR bridge just upstream of the CPR s and the CPR s bridge s west foot entering the Cantilever Bar Tunnel into the side of Cisco Bluff remains one of the most famous images of the CPR s route through British Columbia today and is easily viewable from the adjacent Trans Canada Highway The Cisco Bridges the main landmark at Siska CPR in foreground CNR in background Siska is also home to the Siska First Nation a local government of the Nlaka pamux peoples who have lived in the Fraser Canyon for thousands of years The Siska First Nation rancherie main residential area is just off the highway on a broad benchland just below the CPR bridge and has a general store the museum and band office plus other band services One of the band s economic ventures a project in applied ethnobotany intended to use traditional knowledge to help preserve the land against logging extraction through economic competition for forest leases is the nurturing and harvesting of traditional food and other plant materials in the surrounding wilderness made into health and bath products and teas and other products citation needed Siska is the northernmost point in the Fraser Canyon where bigleaf maple is found 2 Other vegetation is noticeably denser than at Lytton part of the transition from dry Interior to coast rainforest ecotypes that begins near Siska and is largely complete at Spuzzum References edit BC Names GeoBC entry Cisco railway point The Ecology and Silviculture of Bigleaf Maple PDF B C Ministry of Forests March 1999 Retrieved March 28 2022 50 09 00 N 121 34 45 W 50 14996 N 121 5792 W 50 14996 121 5792 nbsp This First Nations in Canada related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article about a location in British Columbia Canada is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Siska British Columbia amp oldid 1181717235, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
