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Submitted by TheDruid-3X3 on Sunday, 14 June 2020  Page Views: 2416

Natural PlacesSite Name: Sumas Lightning Rock Alternative Name: Lightning Rock
Country: Canada Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Abbotsford, BC  Nearest Village: Sumas, WA
Latitude: 49.063056N  Longitude: 122.176944W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Sumas Lightning Rock
Sumas Lightning Rock submitted by TheDruid-3X3 : The Sumas Lightning Rock. (Vote or comment on this photo)
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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Sumas Lightning Rock
Sumas Lightning Rock submitted by TheDruid-3X3 : Lightning Rock photographed from the road to the south of it. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sumas Lightning Rock
Sumas Lightning Rock submitted by TheDruid-3X3 : Sumas Lightning Rock. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sumas Lightning Rock
Sumas Lightning Rock submitted by TheDruid-3X3 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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