Mahood Falls is a waterfall in Wells Gray Provincial Park located on the Canim River between Canim Lake and Mahood Lake and northeast of 100 Mile House, British Columbia , Canada. The waterfall is 30 m (98 ft) high.
11-510: Mahood Falls is also a small community spread out along 5 km (3 mi) of road east of Roserim Lake and south of Canim Lake. The population is about 50 people. There was a post office there until 1990, but presently there are no stores or services. Nearby Mahood Lake and, later, the Mahood Falls community were named after James Adam Mahood who was in charge of a Canadian Pacific Railway survey in this area in 1872. Joan Uhrig (née McNeil)
22-545: Is a 10-minute walk to see Mahood Falls first, then 10 minutes further to see Canim Falls. Both are on the Canim River, downstream from Canim Lake, where there is a large island; the north channel goes over Mahood Falls and the south channel (which carries a lot more water) over Canim Falls. Like many other waterfalls in Wells Gray Provincial Park, Mahood Falls owes its formation to the deposits of volcanic rock in
33-635: The Trans-Canada Highway , over the Monashees. The line over the Eagle Pass was the last section of the CPR to be completed; the last spike was driven at a location known as Craigellachie in 1885. The pass was discovered by Walter Moberly in his role as Assistant Surveyor General of British Columbia in 1865. The nearest city to Eagle Pass is Revelstoke , 20 kilometres to the east. This article related to
44-761: The Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field . Layer upon layer of fresh lava created flat areas, over which enormous floods flowed at the end of the last ice age . These floods carved the canyons below Mahood Falls and Canim Falls. Erosion by wind and rain created a natural bridge in the cliffs beside the trail, one of only three in Wells Gray Park. 51°51′58″N 120°35′13″W / 51.86611°N 120.58694°W / 51.86611; -120.58694 Canadian Pacific Survey The Canadian Pacific Survey or Canadian Pacific Railway Survey comprised many distinct geographical surveys conducted during
55-597: The 1870s and 1880s, designed to determine the ideal route of the Canadian Pacific Railway . Although much of the survey's activity focused on locating suitable mountain passes through the Canadian Rockies , Selkirk Mountains , Monashee Mountains , Canadian Cascades and Coast Mountains of western Canada , locating the best route across the rugged terrain of the Canadian Shield north of Lake Superior
66-757: The bronze rush-era Waddington's Road via Bute Inlet and the eventual Lillooet-Squamish-Howe Sound routing of the Pacific Great Eastern , led by Stanley Smith , that attempted to investigate a potential route from the head of the Lillooet River via Ring Pass and the Lillooet Icefield to the coast via the Bishop River , resulted in the disappearance of Smith's party. Glaciers in the Lillooet Icecap are named for him and his brother, who had also been in
77-588: The first detailed mapping of much of southern British Columbia, including remote areas such as the Coast Mountains icefields and a range of potential pass and route combinations, including new discoveries - the most notable and crucial of which was Rogers Pass through the Selkirk Mountains , but also less famously but no less crucially Eagle Pass through the Monashees . Routes investigated included those of
88-818: The group. Eagle Pass, British Columbia Eagle Pass (elevation 550 metres or 1,804 feet) is a mountain pass through the Gold Range of the Monashee Mountains in British Columbia , Canada. It divides the Columbia River drainage basin from that of the Fraser River (via the Shuswap Lakes and the Thompson River ). Eagle Pass was chosen as the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), and later
99-583: The waterfall. Answering repeatedly that there was no waterfall became so tiresome that the McNeils selected this waterfall to which they could send the curious tourists. Only the community, not the waterfall, is an official name in the British Columbia Gazetteer. Access to Mahood Falls (the waterfall) is by a short trail off the Mahood Lake Road. Trail signage on the road says only 'Canim Falls'. It
110-536: Was also a primary goal. The survey played an important role in the exploration of Canada , especially in the mapping of hitherto-uncharted parts of British Columbia . In British Columbia, survey work was overseen by Walter Moberly , a former Colony of British Columbia land official and cabinet member , and involved steamboat support vessels on the Arrow Lakes and Columbia River , and on Kootenay Lake , Shuswap Lake , Seton Lake and others. The survey entailed
121-457: Was born in 1935 at Canim Lake and grew up on the McNeil Ranch, now operated by the third generation of McNeils. According to her, the waterfall was unnamed during the family's early years at Canim Lake and considered to be part of nearby Canim Falls . When the post office was established in the 1950s and named Mahood Falls, tourists on the new road to Mahood Lake began asking for directions to see
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