Following the opening of an improved highway in 1927 Allen Gough and his family opened a tourist lodge at Siska, a few miles south of Lytton. The lodge burned down several times, but was replaced each time. In the spacious dining room the windows looked out at the spectacular scenery of the Fraser Canyon and the twin railway bridges. The last "Siska Lodge", built in the 1960s, stood beside the Cariboo Road. Today the district of Siska is being omitted from current history. Siska Flat and the first European (French) settlers there are noted on a map of a survey made by the Royal Engineers in 1861. (14T1 Roads and Trails, Legal Surveys, Victoria, B.C.)
Siska Lodge, built in the 1920s after road improvements (credit: Vancouver Public Library #10242)
The twin railway bridges near Siska Lodge (credit: BC Archives #HP-76940)
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for permission to quote information on the roadhouse communities.
Thanks to the Living Landscapes Project, the Royal British Columbia
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