Siska, British Columbia

Siska, also known historically as Cisco,

pair of bridges, with the CNR bridge just upstream of the CPR's, and the CPR's bridge's west foot entering the Cantilever Bar Tunnel into the side of Cisco Bluff, remains one of the most famous images of the CPR's route through British Columbia today and is easily viewable from the adjacent Trans-Canada Highway

.

Siska is also home to the

benchland just below the CPR bridge, and has a general store, the museum and band office, plus other band services. One of the band's economic ventures, a project in applied ethnobotany intended to use traditional knowledge to help preserve the land against logging extraction through economic competition for forest leases, is the nurturing and harvesting of traditional food and other plant materials in the surrounding wilderness, made into health and bath products and teas and other products.^{[citation needed}

]

Siska is the northernmost point in the Fraser Canyon where

bigleaf maple is found.^[2] Other vegetation is noticeably denser than at Lytton, part of the transition from dry Interior to coast rainforest ecotypes that begins near Siska and is largely complete at Spuzzum

.

References

^ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Cisco (railway point)"
^ "The Ecology and Silviculture of Bigleaf Maple" (PDF). B.C. Ministry of Forests. March 1999. Retrieved March 28, 2022.

50°09′00″N 121°34′45″W / 50.14996°N 121.5792°W / 50.14996; -121.5792

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[1] BC Names/GeoBC entry "Cisco (railway point)"

[2] "The Ecology and Silviculture of Bigleaf Maple" (PDF). B.C. Ministry of Forests. March 1999. Retrieved March 28, 2022.

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