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Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park with River Bridges and Othello Railway Tunnels, Coast Mountains, British Columbia Royalty Free Stock Photo

The Coquihalla River in Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park and at the Othello Tunnels near Hope in British Columbia Canada Royalty Free Stock Photo

Coquihalla Canyon with Othello Tunnels near Hope, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

In 1914, the Canadian Pacific Railway built a side-line to the Kootenay Mountains that required building a system of several bridges and tunnels just East of Hope to build the line straight through the one hundred metre deep gorge that the Coquihalla River had eroded into the granite rock of the mountains, Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park near Hope, British Columbia, Canada.