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Natural PlacesSite Name: Sumas Lightning Rock Alternative Name: Lightning RockCountry: Canada
NOTE: This site is 16.238 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Abbotsford, BC Nearest Village: Sumas, WA
Latitude: 49.063056N Longitude: 122.176944W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Canada
Lightning Rock is a sacred site to the Semá:th (Sumas) First Nation in the Fraser Valley. Thousands of people may be buried nearby, including victims of two smallpox epidemics that decimated First Nations in the 18th and 19th centuries.
But it isn’t designated a provincial heritage site, because it slips between the cracks of heritage regulations.
The name Lightning Rock comes from Semá:th oral tradition that the rock was a shaman who got into a conflict with Thunderbird, a powerful creature in First Nations lore that lived in a cave up Sumas Mountain. Thunderbird threw a lightning bolt at the shaman, who was split into the four pieces of Lightning Rock.
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