Cheekye is an unincorporated locality on the
Cheakamus River
The Cheakamus River (pron. CHEEK-a-mus) is a tributary of the Squamish River, beginning on the west slopes of Outlier Peak in Garibaldi Provincial Park upstream from Cheakamus Lake on the southeastern outskirts of the resort area of Whistler, Brit ...
just upstream from its confluence with its parent stream, the
Squamish, and just north of
Brackendale, British Columbia, which is part of the
District of Squamish, British Columbia,
Canada
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.
Formerly a passenger station on the
Pacific Great Eastern Railway
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and home to a fishing lodge and cabins, it is named for the
Cheekye River
The Cheekye River is a river in southwestern British Columbia, Canada
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and had a post office from October 16, 1924 to August 8, 1931. It is the location of the only bridge across the
Cheakamus River
The Cheakamus River (pron. CHEEK-a-mus) is a tributary of the Squamish River, beginning on the west slopes of Outlier Peak in Garibaldi Provincial Park upstream from Cheakamus Lake on the southeastern outskirts of the resort area of Whistler, Brit ...
below
the abandoned settlement of Garibaldi, leading to two roads, one northeast to the
Paradise Valley neighbourhood, which lies along the Cheakamus below its canyon, and also to the main road up the Squamish Valley, leading to various Indian Reserves of the
Squamish Nation
The Squamish Nation, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw () in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Sníchim (Squamish language), is an Indian Act government originally imposed on the Squamish (''Sḵwx̱wú7mesh'') by the Federal Government of Canada in the late 19th cen ...
and beyond to the valleys of the
Elaho and other tributaries of the Squamish.
References
BCGNIS "Cheekye" (locality)
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Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia