D'Arcy, British Columbia

Nequatque
Nequatque
	Nequatque Location of Nequatque in British Columbia
	Coordinates: 50°33′00″N 122°29′00″W / 50.55000°N 122.48333°W
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia

D'Arcy is an unincorporated community in the

St'at'imcets (Lillooet) language, is partly a recreational and resource community and also the territory and residential area of the N'Quatqua First Nation

.

History

The Lakes Route

D'Arcy was founded as a non-native community named Port Anderson during the

Pacific Great Eastern Railway, when non-native settlers once again took up land in the area, including a general store and a set of cabins by the lakeshore. The name D'Arcy comes from D'Arcy Tate, vice president of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, 1912-1918.^[1]

The longtime proprietress of the store at D'Arcy, Irene Edwards, wrote a history of the entire region surrounding D'Arcy, as well as the town and its native people, in her self-published Short Portage to Lillooet.

Japanese relocatees and Devine

Nearby

Second World War. D'Arcy at that time was just inside the 100-mile (160 km) "quarantine" zone from the Coast beyond which all Japanese had to be evacuated, but because the D'Arcy-Birken valley (known as the Gates Valley

or Birken Valley) and the Pemberton Valley in those times had no road access to the Coast, its physical isolation made regulations placed on the Japanese somewhat lax in comparison to the internment camps in the Kootenays. Because of this situation, D'Arcy local Frank Devine was able to hire the relocated Japanese men, and brought them to work at a logging camp and mill two miles (3 km) up the Gates River from D'Arcy, which has ever since been known as Devine.