Mile Post 59 — Chilliwack, BC
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N 49° 07.952 W 122° 02.751
10U E 569603 N 5442627
In 1931 saw a major expansion of highway network in British Columbia with the construction of the Fraser Highway. Near Greendale is Mile Post 59, which is located 59 miles from the old main post office in Vancouver.
Waymark Code: WMA0HA
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 10/26/2010
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The 59 stamped in the side of this concrete post indicates you are fifty-nine miles from the old Main Post Office in Vancouver. This post office was located at Hastings and Granville streets. By following Hastings to Main, then Kingsway, meandering through New Westminster to the Pattullo Bridge, you then followed King George VI Highway to where the Fraser Highway veered off to the left.
This route supplanted the original Yale Wagon Road which started at Brownsville across from New Westminster. However, prior to the draining of Sumas Lake in today's Abbotsford in the 1920s the wagon road went south towards the United States border before following the base of Vedder Mountain to Chilliwack City.
In the case of Mile Post 59 about two-thirds of it is buried for no know reason, but the essential information remains to be seen.