The town has had several booms and busts, relying on forestry since the mid-1970s although previous booms were connected with Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes, the building of the Lillooet Cattle Trail, another gold rush adjacent to town in the 1880s and another nearby in the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, and spinoffs from the development of the Bridge River goldfields from the 1910s onwards.

Walkem's government was re-elected with a reduced majority but he was also accused of plunging the province into debt by engaging in public works that it could ill afford ( see Lillooet Cattle Trail ).

* Lillooet Cattle Trail ( Lillooet Road, North Vancouver )

Beyond Ohin the roads peter out towards Lillooet, and travel to the foot of the lake is possible only by rail or water ( although fragments of the old cliffside catwalks of the Lillooet Cattle Trail remain in places ).

Since it was at the end of the Lillooet Trail, aka the Douglas Road or Lakes Route, and the Lil ' wat native people farther southwest along that route spoke the same language as the native bands near town, the governor was petitioned to change the name to Lillooet, with permission for use of the name granted by the chiefs of the Lower St ' at ' imc at Mount Currie ( Lil ' wat ) and agreed to by the bands of what is now the Upper St ' at ' imc.

The first Cariboo Wagon Road surveyed in 1861 and built in 1862 followed the original Hudson's Bay Company's Harrison Trail ( Port Douglas ) route from Lillooet to Clinton, 70 Mile House, 100 Mile House, Lac La Hache, 150 Mile House to the contract end around Soda Creek and Alexandria at the doorstep of the Cariboo Gold Fields.

The name Cariboo Road or Cariboo Trail is also informally applied to a toll road built by contractor Gustavus Blin-Wright in 1861 – 1862 from Lillooet to Williams Lake, Van Winkle and on to Williams Creek ( Richfield, Barkerville ).

The style of truss-bridge shown is typical of Royal Engineer design. Most foot traffic from Lillooet to the Cariboo however, went by the " River Trail ", far below the wagon road, which departed the Fraser Canyon at Pavilion for the steep climb over Pavilion Mountain to Clinton, where it merged with the newer Cariboo Road via Yale and Ashcroft ( once the latter route was completed, that is ).

Sections of the old Lillooet Trail catwalks still exist on the cliffs above the rail line but are not safe to use.

For the gold rush-era route from Harrison Lake via the Lakes Route to the Fraser at Lillooet, also known as the Lillooet Trail, see Douglas Road.

A continuing influx of newcomers replaced the disenchanted, with even more men storming the route of the Douglas Road to the upper part of Fraser Canyon around Lillooet ; others got to the upper canyon via the Okanagan Trail and Similkameen Trail, and to the lower Canyon via the Whatcom Trail and the Skagit Trail.

She also travelled to Friendly Cove and the northeast coast of Vancouver Island, and then up to Lillooet in 1933.

Lillooet has one high school, Lillooet Secondary, which also serves students from rural localities outside the town such as Shalalth, Seton Portage, Gold Bridge and Bralorne although those communities do offer students a Secondary School program.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church also operates Fountainview Academy, an international private school and organic farming experience about 24 km south of Lillooet on British Columbia Highway 12.

The railbus or the Kaoham Shuttle makes at least one round trip between Seton Portage and Lillooet daily, and also serves D ' Arcy if there is sufficient demand.

In addition, the railway also used a handful of gasoline cars, notably on a flatcar automobile ferry between Shalalth and Lillooet known simply as the Gas Car, once a vital lifeline for the communities of the upper Bridge River basin before the completion of a road from there to Lillooet.

* the St ' at ' imc people, also known as the Lillooet people

* The Lillooet language, also known under the names of its dialects St ' at ' imcets and Ucwalmícwts

Highway 99, also known as the Sea to Sky Highway, the Squamish Highway, Route 99, or Whistler Highway, is the major north-south artery running through the Greater Vancouver area of British Columbia from the U. S. border, up Howe Sound through the Sea to Sky Country to Lillooet, and connecting to Highway 97 just north of Cache Creek.

The St ' át ' imc ( also Lillooet, Stl ' atl ' imx, Stl ' atl ' imc, Sƛ ’ aƛ ’ imxǝc, St ' át ' imc, Stlatliumh and Slatlemuk ) are an Interior Salish people located in the southern Coast Mountains and Fraser Canyon region of the Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

* Lakes Lillooet ( Lexalexamux or Tsala ' lhmec-' Lake People '), a group only sporadically recognized, living between the territories of Upper St ' at ' imc and Lower St ' at ' imc around Seton Lake and Anderson Lake-whose descendants are today's N ' quatqua First Nation ( also known as Anderson Lake Indian Band ) and Seton Lake First Nation ( also known as Seton Lake Indian Band ), historically a group at the foot of Seton Lake, near Lillooet, known as the Skimka ' imx were also included in this group.

* Xa ' xtsa First Nation ( also known as Douglas First Nation ), Xa ’ xtsa ( pronounce: ‘ ha-htsa ’ or ‘ hahk-cha ’) is made up of two communities: Port Douglas at the northern end of Little Harrison Lake, about 90 km northeast of Vancouver, and their main community Tipella, on the west side of the Lillooet River, southernmost of the In-SHUCK-ch communities, and also of the entire St ’ atl ’ imx linguistic group ()

* T ' ít ' q ' et in Lillooet, also spelled Tl ' itl ' kt ( Lillooet Reserve )

* Tsk ' weylecw ( in an older spelling used in St ' at ' imcets called Tsk ' waylaxw, also known as the Pavilion Indian Band and located at Pavilion, which is between Lillooet and Cache Creek on the lip of the Fraser Canyon and at the outlet of the karst landscape forming Marble Canyon, beyond which are the territories of the Bonaparte Band of the Secwepemc ( Shuswap ) peoples, who are part of the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council.

The language of the Sťaťimc people is St ' at ' imcets ( also known as Lillooet ), a member of the Interior Salish group which includes the languages of the neighbouring Secwepemc ( Shuswap ) and Nlaka ' pamux ( Thompson ) peoples.

Various camps in the Lillooet area and in Christina Lake were formally " self-supporting projects " ( also called " relocation centres ") which housed selected middle-and upper-class families and others not deemed as much a threat to public safety.

The route via the lakes to Lillooet and up Blin Wright's wagon road to the Cariboo goldfields was outflanked within a few years by the now-better known Cariboo Wagon Road via a shorter and less portage-intensive route from Yale to Barkerville via Ashcroft a few years later.

Also known as the Anderson Lake Band and one of the original members of the breakaway In-SHUCK-ch Nation, although now on its own from that organization and from the Lillooet Tribal Council, despite close family ties to the various bands of that organization.

Historically the N ' Quatqua and Tsalalh bands were one group, the Lakes Lillooet or Lexalexamux, and included a group at the foot of Seton Lake, near Lillooet, known as the Skimka ' imx.

A series of hot springs adjacent to the Lillooet River valley, such as the Harrison, Sloquet, Clear Creek and Skookumchuck springs, are not known to occur near areas with recent volcanic activity.

* The native community and historic Catholic mission ghost town of Skookumchuck Hot Springs, also known as Skatin in the St ' at ' imcets ( Lillooet ) language, lies on the Lillooet River south of Pemberton, about 20 miles nearly due east of the resort of Whistler on the inland side of the Garibaldi Ranges.

This route was known also as the Old Cariboo Road, when the Lakes Route from Port Douglas to Lillooet had not yet been superseded by the Fraser Canyon route of the Cariboo Wagon Road proper.

Lillooet or Lilloet, also known as St ’ át ’ imcets (), is the Interior Salishan language of the St ’ át ’ imc, spoken in southern British Columbia, Canada around the middle Fraser and Lillooet rivers.

By the late 19th century, an Oblate mission had been established at Shalalth, which as a result became known as " the Mission ", a term which gaves its name to creek coming down from the high mountain pass above, and to that pass and the ridge from there to Lillooet along the north side of Seton Lake.

The primary use of " district " in combinations such as the Lillooet District or New Westminster District was a reference to the Land District, though sometimes to Mining Divisions.

Gordon Gibson Sr, nicknamed the " Bull of the Woods ," was elected for Lillooet as a Liberal.

He was elected in 1953 for the Lillooet riding.

It acquired its current name during the Cariboo Gold Rush where a roadhouse was constructed in 1862 at the 100 Mile mark () up the Old Cariboo Road from Lillooet.

In the late 19th century, a trail was cut through the valley, linking Lillooet via Pemberton with Burrard Inlet via a pass from Squamish to the Seymour River.

Lillooet was originally named Cayoosh Flat, a name that was felt to be unsavoury by the residents of the town at the time of its incorporation in 1860.

Until the discovery of even larger deposits of jade near Cassiar, the Lillooet area was the world's largest source of the nephrite form of jade.

The Golden Cache Mine located on Cayoosh Creek just West of Lillooet was believed to hold one of the richest ore bodies of gold until lack of results ended investment, though it started a local prospecting boom with various miners and companies continuing the search for rich veins around the region.

Service between Lillooet and Prince George was cut back to three times weekly in the 1960s.

The most famous of these was Rainbow Lodge at Whistler, then called Alta Lake, but others were at Birken Lake, Whispering Falls, D ' Arcy, Ponderosa, McGillivray Falls, Seton Portage, the Bridge River townsite ( where there was a first-class hotel serving mining and hydro executives and their guests ), Shalalth, Retaskit and at Craig Lodge near Lillooet.

Before his election to the House, he was a provincial magistrate in Lillooet.

Davie was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1875 from the riding of Lillooet and began as a supporter of the government of George Anthony Walkem but soon joined the Opposition.

** Lillooet was a historical provincial electoral district 1871-1890 and 1903-1966.

** Lillooet West was a historical provincial electoral district in the 1894, 1898 and 1890 British Columbia elections

** Lillooet East was a historical provincial electoral district in the 1894, 1898 and 1890 British Columbia elections

** NB the original federal district including the town and area of Lillooet was Cariboo ( electoral district ).