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Lower Fraser River since European settlement in the Fraser Valley, the flood of 1894 is considered to be the "flood of record", but the flood of 1948...

The Fraser River (/ˈfreɪzər/) is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains...

The Fraser River flood of 1948 was the most devastating flooding to hit Greater Vancouver in living memory. That year's floods had more than 2,300 homes...

to flood risk. There have been two major region-wide floods in 1894 and 1948, both associated with an extreme spring freshet of the Fraser River. Other...

Sumas Lake. A freshet in 1894 caused this new course to become permanent, and compounded on the devastating 1894 Fraser basin flood. In the early 20th century...

The 1948 Columbia River flood (or Vanport Flood) was a regional flood that occurred in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada. Large portions...

floods were a series of floods that affected British Columbia, Canada, and parts of neighboring Washington state in the United States. The flooding and...

that lengthened to 70 feet (21 m) in the 1905 rebuild. During the 1894 Fraser flood, floating debris destroyed more than half the southern section, causing...

this section had become passable by the early 1900s. After the 1894 Fraser River flood had destroyed the Spuzzum Creek bridge, the 91-metre (300 ft) railway...

periodic flooding of adjacent lowlands. Similarly, the BC Electric Railway route skirted the south shore of the lake. After the devastating 1894 Fraser basin...

small area of lowland between the CPR mainline and the river. Following the great flood of 1894 a few years after the town's founding, the core was relocated...

The Sumas River is a river in the Fraser Lowland and a tributary of the Fraser River system, coursing across the international border between the Canadian...

periodically flooded during major spring freshets of the Fraser River, occurring in 1894, 1948, 1972, and 2007. The prairie has also flooded due to extreme...

snowmelt is rapid, flooding can be more intense. In areas where freshets dominate the hydrological regime, such as the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia...

1893, the first dyking district was organized; however, the Fraser River Flood of 1894 flooded many acres of land in Pitt Meadows. In 1914, Pitt Meadows...

across Nicomen Slough. Chilliwack Mountain lies to the south across the Fraser River. Adjacent to the northeast is Skumalasph Island. Dewdney, which by road...

road. Much of the Fraser Canyon wagon road was destroyed by the railway construction as well as by washouts and by the Great Flood of 1894 (interest in rebuilding...

This is a list of bridges, tunnels, and other crossings of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It includes both functional crossings...

flooding of the area by the Fraser River. The area continued to flood - notably in 1894 - but the most serious recorded flooding by the Fraser River was...

cross the Fraser River at Minto Landing to ride the train from Harrison Mills. In 1881, with little room for expansion and the threat of floods constantly...