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Every May, Clinton is home to the Annual Ball held on the Victoria Day weekend, where many people dress as the first settlers did. The Annual Ball kicks off the Village's Heritage week with the parade and the May rodeo and dance ending Heritage week. The Clinton Annual Ball is one of British
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country of British Columbia, although others consider Ashcroft-Cache Creek, Lillooet, Savona, Kamloops and even Lytton and Spences Bridge to be in the Cariboo. Clinton, however, does sit immediately below the southern edge of the
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for many decades. The Clinton Museum, built in 1892, has a number of historical artifacts on display that date back to the gold rush and founding of the area.
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can be accessed via a road which has its junction with the Pavilion Mountain Road at Kelly Lake, which is also the location of
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runs through the village north-south, meeting just south of downtown with the Pavilion Mountain Road, which connects from
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Columbia's oldest continual events having first been held in 1867 and was a highlight of the social calendar in the
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Originally known as Cut-Off Valley, "47 Mile House" or "47 Mile", Clinton was named in 1863 upon completion of the
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is accessed via the Loon Lake Road, which departs Highway 97 eastwards to the south of Clinton.
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although that route does not traverse Pavilion Mountain but comes via the Fraser Canyon via
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Also diverging from Highway 97 at Clinton is the route of the original
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It is considered by some to straddle the southern edge of the
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Populated places in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District
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Village
Clinton's welcome sign
Clinton is located in British Columbia
51°05′25″N 121°35′28″W / 51.09028°N 121.59111°W / 51.09028; -121.59111
British Columbia
Regional district
Thompson–Nicola
Time zone
UTC−08:00
PST
DST
UTC−07:00
Area code
97
http://www.village.clinton.bc.ca
village
British Columbia
Canada
Cache Creek
70 Mile House
Cariboo
Cariboo Plateau
British Columbia Interior
Cariboo Wagon Road
Henry Fiennes Pelham Clinton
Duke of Newcastle
colonial secretary
2021 Census of Population
Statistics Canada

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