Alkali Lake, British Columbia
- Alkali Lake, British Columbia
Alkali Lake is an unincorporated community in the Cariboo region of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located 40 kilometres south of the city of Williams Lake en route to Dog Creek and the Gang Ranch. The settlement, and the adjoining reserves of the Alkali Lake Indian Band, get their name from Alkali Lake, which gets its name from an outcrop of alkali on the hillside above it; the lake itself is not an alkali lake. [ [http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=27787 BCGTNIS listing "Alkali Lake (community)"] ]
The economy of the area is based on cattle ranching and small scale tourism, although in the past it was important as a way station on one of the various trails to the Cariboo goldfields farther north.
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