historically multi-ethnic in extraction, with a relatively high-rate of intermarriage between all groups. Education Lillooet has one high school, Lillooet Secondary, which also serves students from neighbouring rural localities such as Shalalth, Seton Portage, Gold Bridge and Bralorne, although those communities do offer students a secondary school program. Cayoosh Elementary School is in the Cayoosh Heights subdivision and George M. Murray Elementary serves North Lillooet. The Upper St'at'imc Culture, Language and Education Society (USCLES) operates education programs, but most St'at'imc children attend the public school system. Post-secondary programs are offered at a Thompson Rivers University campus. The Fountainview Academy, about south, is an international private school, which offers work-study experience that includes organic farming. Notable people Johnder Basran, first Indo-Canadian mayor in Canada Alexander E.B. Davie, member of the Legislative Assembly for Lillooet and 8th Premier of British Columbia Don Dickinson, Canadian writer and teacher. He was shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1991 Governor General's Awards for his short story collection Blue Husbands, and for the 1993 Books in Canada First Novel Award for his novel The Crew. Blue Husbands was also a winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1992. A.C. Elliott, magistrate in Lillooet and 4th Premier of British Columbia George Leach, actor and Juno award-winning songwriter/guitarist Bertha Hosang Mah, first Chinese woman to graduate from a Canadian university (McGill, 1917); born in Lillooet Masajiro Miyazaki, Japanese-Canadian internee and town coroner during WWII, founder of the local ambulance and hospital, Order of Canada awardee George Murray, MLA and publisher of the 'Bridge River-Lillooet News' Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray, editor of the Bridge River-Lillooet News, Order of Canada awardee Caspar Phair, Lillooet pioneer, Gold Commissioner and first Government Agent Climate Lillooet experiences a semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk). Situated at an intersection of deep gorges in the lee of the Coast Mountains, it has a dry climate with an average of of precipitation being recorded annually. The locality often vies with Lytton and Osoyoos for the title of "Canada's Hot Spot" on a daily basis in summer. Lillooet holds the record for the fourth-hottest temperature recorded in British Columbia and Canada (behind Lytton, Ashcroft and Kamloops). On 29 June 2021, during the 2021 Western North America heat wave which brought unprecedented heat to the Pacific Northwest, the temperature reached . Lillooet also holds the record for the hottest temperature recorded in the