Cheakamus Lake is a

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

in Garibaldi Provincial Park on the southeastern outskirts of the resort municipality of

Whistler, British Columbia Whistler (, ; , ) is a resort municipality in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains, approximately north of Vancouver and south of Pemberton, Britis ...

. It has an area of 5.7 km² (2.2 mi²). It is an expansion of the upper Cheakamus River, with the river entering it at its east end and exiting at the west end. In 2005, 40,000 litres of

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were spilled into the Cheakamus River, well downstream of the lake, as a result of a CN train derailment.CN faulted for Squamish derailment
The Globe and Mail

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Lakes of British Columbia Sea-to-Sky Corridor New Westminster Land District {{SquamishLillooet-geo-stub

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