Older British Columbia Reports
 1980 -- October, several people traveling in the dome car of a train bound from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Calgary, Alberta, saw a 10-foot apelike creature standing 300 feet from the tracks. Later one of the witnesses said, "It was waving its arms as if trying to fly."
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Agassiz: An native Indian walking on a Canadian Pacific railway tracks near Agassiz in September of 1927, saw a sasquatch.
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1948 -- Harrison River British Columbia... a Chehalis First Nation fellow named Henry Charlie reported to J.W. Burns, a resident of the Frazer River Valley that a Sasquatch chased him a mile down a road. Charlie was riding a bicycle and the Sasquatch easily kept pace. According to him, the name Sasquatch was popularized by John W Burns, a Canadian government schoolteacher on the Chehalis Indian Reserve near Harrison Hot Springs in the 1920s,. Burns was a sometime magazine journalist and a lifetime Sasquatch enthusiast. The stories he wrote for several magazines published in the 1920s told of a terrible creature known to Pacific Coast Indians as the "wild man of the woods." Half human, half-monster, it was popular Chehalis culture to believe the Sasquatch possessed gifts of ventriloquism and hypnotism but no proof of such powers was established by Burns. Years later, a jealous newspaper-owner of a weekly tabloid newspaper in Harrison Hot Springs by the name of John Green would belittle the work Burns did in and around Morris Mountain with the Chehalis as well as the stories Burns collected from the Chehalis people including the Seraphine Long story.
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Alert Bay: In the 1930's, a local resident saw a strange creature that resembled the legendary Sasquatch walking along a nearby beach. She watched it until it disappeared into the trees.
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Allison Pass: In early September 1971, a local male resident saw a dark, eight-foot-tall creature with a small head, and long arms walking across a lighted highways Department yard near this location in Manning Park at 4 a.m. It is thought that the creature was the legendary Sasquatch.
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Anahim Lake: Near this lake, on October 25, 1969, a local game guide watched a brown, hairy, half-human, half-ape-like creature through telescopic sights for ten minutes. It sat by a snow hole (apparently its home) at the edge of a glacier at 6,000 ft.
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Anvil Island: It was reported that a large, hairy creature resembling the elusive Sasquatch stuck its head in tent of campers here.
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Athabasca Pass: In January 1891, David Thompson, the famous explorer, while crossing this pass found the tracks of a large mammal that was apparently following his party. The tracks were larger than any Grizzly tracks. Local Indians claimed that they were the footprints of giants, huge creatures, half man, half bear who live in the area.
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Bella Bella: In 1963, a local resident saw what he thought resembled the legendary Sasquatch on the shore of an island nearby.
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Bella Coola: In the winter of 1975, tracks, similar to those made by the mysterious Sasquatch, were found near the Tallheo Cannery in this community. The Boqs: Bella Coola Indians claim that a beast resembling a man, especially in its hands and eyes, lives in the area. It walks upright like man on two legs, in a stooping posture, with its long arms swinging below its knees. Its stature is larger than average man. With the exception of its face, the strange creature's entire body is covered with long hair, especially on its huge chest. The Boq is said to have great strength. Indians also believe it has supernatural powers and still lives in certain areas on outer coast where Indians refuse to go. Some of the Bella Coola believe the creature they call “Bog” is different from the Sasquatch.
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Bella Coola River: In April 1962, a woman and her two children saw what they thought was a female Sasquatch holding a smaller and younger creature by hand on bank of Bella Coola River. Other people claimed to have seen a Sasquatch in the village late at night.
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Bella Coola Valley: Two local hunters, in December of 1958, while out in the woods in this valley, saw a seven foot, hairy creature watching them. It ran off when they started to stare back at it. From their description of it, many people felt that it was a Sasquatch.
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Bishop's Cove: The crew of the steamer 'Capilano,' when they arrived at this fishing community, north of Vancouver, on March 7, 1907, saw the natives putting out from shore in canoes. The natives, in a state of terror, quickly clambered aboard and demanded to be taken away from the area. They claimed that a monkey-like wild man had been appearing on the beach every night, howling in an unearthly fashion between intervals of clam digging. It was covered in hair and stood about five feet high. The Indians had tried to shoot it but failed. Officers and crew of the vessel heard some animals howling along the shore that night.
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Blueberry Paulson Pass: In October of 1992, a man was helping some friends spot deer near this pass when he saw a Sasquatch. He described it as being a black biped about half as high as a seventeen-foot tree. The creature was striding along as he watched it through binoculars. The man had been a non-believer before the sighting. When he went home that night, it was reported that his eyes were bulging right out of his head.
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Bridesville: In 1937, a Sasquatch was spotted sitting in an abandoned garden on a homestead near Bridesville.
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Burrard Inlet: A living Sasquatch was on display at the present site of Vancouver in 1884, at a cost of 25 cents. It was later taken up Burrard Inlet, where some unnamed people cut all its hair off to see what it was like underneath. The creature then reportedly died. Vancouver didn't exist at that time.
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Bute Inlet: On March 21, 1973, three herring fishermen watched a ten-foot Sasquatch walking on a beach on this inlet. When they returned to Vancouver, they were considerably excited.
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Butedale: An Indian village once existed near present day Butedale on Princess Royal Island. The story goes that the villagers were reported to have found a human-like animal with a newborn baby in a cave in the surrounding woods. They brought the baby back to the village and the mother followed. In time, she became semi-tame and would dig clams along with the Indians. She eats the clams raw. She and the child, however, did not live long. After they died, the villagers in memory of the creatures made masks resembling the creatures' faces. These masks are still passed on from generation to generation and used in dances at Kitimaat Village. There are facial descriptions on totems.
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In Butedale, BC in the 1920's, two workers for the Western Packers salmon cannery reportedly were followed home by a woman covered in hair who had a smaller hairy one she supported on her hipbone, it was crying. She spoke softly to it but the crying continued, neither was not properly attired, wore no shoes and was unclean about their person. The men tossed her a large salmon and she went away. The beastly woman was seen around the village often in the winter months, sometimes with one or two tiddlers tagging along.
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Butedale: In July, 1965, Jack Taylor, a local resident saw two of the legendary Sasquatch on the shore near this site and another swimming strongly in the waters of the inlet.
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Campbell River, Vancouver Island, British Columbia: In 1901, a well-known timber cruiser was alone in this area when he sighted a Sasquatch. His Indian packers had refused to accompany him into this area because of the monkey men of the forest. In the late afternoon, he saw a man-like beast bending over a water hole, washing some roots, which it placed in two neat piles. Suddenly aware of the man's presence, the creature gave a startled cry and ran up a hill, stopping at some distance and looking back. The timber cruiser kept it covered with his rifle. The Sasquatch was covered with reddish-brown hair and his arms were long and used freely in climbing and running in the bush. It left distinct human-like footprints but with very long and spreading toes. Then again on Dec.14, 1904, four unidentified men reported seeing a Sasquatch in this area. A similar report was filed in 1905 and again in the following year.
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In Castlegar BC about 1974, a young couple driving at night saw a Sasquatch standing beside the road.
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Cedar Creek, BC: In June of 1963, a local hunting guide and long-time resident of the area was walking up a logging road on the banks of this creek. His logging truck had broken down and he was forced to hike to the nearest camp for help. At one point where the road and the creek nearly meet, he saw a dark, furry creature scrambling among the rocks of a rockslide. The creature was quite large and at first he thought it was a bear. When it moved out into a clearing, he saw that it was definitely not a bear. It stood quite tall and was hunched over. He estimated its weight as three to four hundred pounds. Its body was covered with sparse, brown hair. Its hands resembled a human's while its arms hung almost to the ground. At first the creature moved among the rocks eating berries. Then it stopped and stared straight at the man. The guide clearly saw an open mouth with white teeth. The mysterious creature then set off up the rockslide in great leaps. All this time, the creature moved standing up on its hind legs like a human. It disappeared into the bush at the foot of a cliff about five hundred feet up the slope.
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Chapman Creek, 1960's, surveyors working near Sechelt came through an area of twisted deadfall and stopped short
when they heard a woman crying. It was prior to mid-day, afraid to move they sat back on fallen timber and watched helplessly as an enormous sasquatch gave birth, the creature sometimes hanging onto a log where she lay alone in dire straits. By late afternoon her wailing echoed for miles. They watched as she twisted the cord into a knot and bit the rest free from her body. She brushed the baby dry with moss and lichen. It cried like any other but was lacking the hair of its mother. (Cletus Moore, Duncan Vancouver Island)
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Chapman Creek: In June of 1973, at Mile Nine near Sechelt, timber workers saw a Sasquatch jumping up and down on the banks of this creek. It left humanlike footprints.
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Cheakamus Canyon: On January 7, 1970, a road worker foreman saw a seven-foot Sasquatch cross the road in front of his car near the top of the canyon near Squamish. It was carrying a fish in its hand. The foreman described it as being seven feet tall, weighing about three hundred pounds, covered with reddish brown hair about three-four inches long. Its forehead sloped to the rear and its head came to a point in a twist of hair. It was monkey-like, but with human eyes.
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Chehalis Indian Reserve: Indians on this reserve near Harrison Lake tell about a race of creatures that lived on this continent ages ago. They called them Sasquatch or Hairy Mountain Men. Other names given to the creatures are SEEAHTIK, WAUK-WAUK, TE SAMI'ETL, SOQUWIAM and SASKAHEVIS. The Sasquatch is often encountered on the Harrison River and Chehalis Reserve. The Indians are very wary of them as the creatures are said to try and kidnap Indian children. In May 1909, a local resident was chased by a Sasquatch to his home where it pushed against the walls of the wooden house. In April 1924 a Chehalis woman was kidnapped by sasquatch and feared dead. One year later she returned to the reserve with tree pitch over her eyes and pregnant, frail and in very ill health. A son was born alive and died shortly there after. (This was also reported in the works of J.W. Burns...) In Summer 1925 Two Chehalis men watched a female sasquatch with very large breasts bath a baby sasquatch in Harrison Lake, cupping its large hand to gather water over the baby, which was being held in the other hand, it was very little and crying. In March 1934, another resident of the Reserve saw a hairy giant near his home, it was light colored.
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Chetwynd: On September 14, 1968, two game guides saw a Sasquatch near Chetwynd.
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Clio Bay: In the summer of 1965, a group of men saw a Sasquatch on a rock beside the sea at Clio Bay. It walked away upright.
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Conuma River: In 1928, a local Indian resident reported that he was kidnapped and kept prisoner by a Sasquatch near this area on Vancouver Island.
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Coombes: In the 1940's, a light gray Sasquatch ran across the road in front of a car near this community on Vancouver Island.
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Cooper Lake: One fall morning a number of years ago, three men were hunting in a basin just west of Cooper Lake at the headwaters of the Moyle River about twenty miles west of Cranbrook. Looking through their binoculars with the sun at their back, they were amazed to see roughly one mile away a strange creature. It was standing upright on a small rock bluff about ten feet high. The furry creature was poised on two legs. At first they thought it was a bear. But then the strange creature leaped down from the bluff and landed, unlike an animal but like a human, on its hind legs. It was definitely not a bear! The mysterious creature then disappeared into a thicket of trees, walking upright.
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Cougar Lake: In 1915, three local prospectors watched a Sasquatch eating berries before it disappeared into the woods at this lake near Holy Cross Mountain.
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Courtenay: In September 1953, at dusk, a local resident saw an eight-foot Sasquatch on the road ahead. After several minutes, it disappeared into the forest.
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Cranbrook: Two un-named men were driving from a town in Saskatchewan to the Okanagan District in BC, a number of years ago. At about 2 AM, they reached the junction of the Kimberley Highway and Fort Steele Highway just east of Cranbrook. As they came around a sharp curve, two furry, dark creatures dashed up the banks from the sewage lagoons and ran across the road right in front of their car. The creatures were so close that the driver had to brake the car hard to avoid hitting one of the creatures, even though the car was not traveling very fast. The men described the figures as both being about two hundred pounds, five feet tall with bodies covered in hair. The strange creatures' hands resembled human hands. Both of these amazing creatures walked on their hind legs upright.
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Cultus Lake: On July 4th, 1964, at about 2 AM, two local, unidentified youths saw two seven foot, shaggy white Sasquatch standing beside the road near Cultus Lake.
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Citation for this list...
From a website no longer online that was called: "Amazing BC" and from other collections no longer online called “Mysteries…” sent to Bigfoot Encounter by Joe Pritchard
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