Ashcroft, British Columbia
| Ashcroft | |
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| Village | |
| The Corporation of the Village of Ashcroft |
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 Ashcroft
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| Coordinates: 50°43′32″N 121°16′50″W / 50.72556°N 121.28056°WCoordinates: 50°43′32″N 121°16′50″W / 50.72556°N 121.28056°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province | British Columbia |
| Region | Thompson Country-South Cariboo |
| Regional District | Thompson-Nicola Regional District |
| Founded | 1880s |
| Incorporated as a Village | 1952 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Elected village council |
| • Mayor | Jack Jeyes |
| • Governing body | Ashcroft Village Council |
| • MP | Jati Sidhu (Liberal) |
| • MLA | Jackie Tegart (BC Liberals) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 51.45 km2 (19.86 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 335.2 m (1,099.7 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 1,628 |
| • Density | 32.3/km2 (84/sq mi) |
| Time zone | PST (UTC−8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC−7) |
| Postal Code | V0K 1A0 |
| Highway | Highway 97C |
| Waterways |
Kamloops Lake Bonaparte River Thompson River |
| Website | www |
Ashcroft (2011 population 1,628) is a village in the Thompson Country of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is 30 kilometres (19 mi) downstream from the west end of Kamloops Lake, at the confluence of the Bonaparte and Thompson Rivers, and is in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District.
Ashcroft's downtown is on the east side of the Thompson River, although the municipal boundaries straddle the river, with housing and the town's hospital and recreation complex on the west bank. It is something of a "twin" to nearby Cache Creek, which unlike Ashcroft is on the major highway.
Ashcroft was founded in the 1860s, during the Cariboo Gold Rush, by two English brothers named Clement Francis Cornwall and Henry Pennant Cornwall, founders of Ashcroft Ranch, who emigrated to Canada from Ashcroft, at Newington Bagpath in Gloucestershire. The brothers had originally come in search of gold; however, on hearing stories from failed gold searchers they decided to found the town to give future gold searchers a place to saddle their horses. They sold flour to packers and miners, helping to make the community.
In 2001, Ashcroft expanded its boundaries to include the Ashcroft Ranch, which had been bought in 2000 by the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) with the intent of using it as the site of a landfill to succeed the Cache Creek sanitary landfill. In 2011, however, the British Columbia government denied an environmental assessment certificate for the landfill, and Metro Vancouver expressed a desire to divest itself of the property.
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