Bendor Range

Bendor Range

on the north, with the gold-rich valley of Cadwallader Creek on its southwest.

The range's western flank is the site of a series of now-semi-abandoned mining towns. One of these, Bralorne, is among the deepest mines in Canada and in its heyday was the third-richest gold mine in the world; it has waned from a peak population of 8,000 to less than 300 today. Its shafts plunge a mile beneath sea level under the range, starting at 3500' above. The name "Bendor" is believed by some locally to be a Gaelic-French hybrid - "ben d'or" - "mountain of gold" (note Welsh: Pen d'awr means the same thing) - and while it does mean that, more or less, the name was conferred in honour of a famous racehorse of the 1890s.

but, as it is located near the heart of the range, invisible from the towns and lakes around its perimeter. At the northwest of the range, but mostly invisible from the towns below because of the terrain of its flanks, is Mount Truax 2870 m (9416 ft). East of it are Mount Williams 2775 m (9104 ft) and Mount Bobb 2821 m (9255 ft).

Note: some classification systems assign the Bendor to the Chilcotin Ranges subgrouping of the Pacific Ranges, but this is incorrect as it is on the south side of the Bridge River, which is the limit of the Chilcotin Ranges.

External links

* [http://www.cayoosh.net/ Bridge River-Lillooet Country Archive]
* [http://bivouac.com/ArxPg.asp?ArxId=149 Bendor Range entry in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.telemark.net/%7Erandallg/photos/20061010_Chilko_Lake/images/RIMG0184.jpgAerial view of Bendor Range] from [http://www.telemark.net/%7Erandallg/photos/20061010_Chilko_Lake/ Randall & Kat's Flying Photos] , gold mining ghost town of Bralorne in foreground.


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