Seton Portage is a community in British Columbia. The area was first discovered by Europeans in 1846 by explorer Alexander Caulfield Anderson. It is located between Seton Lake and Anderson Lake. In 1858 gold was discovered in British Columbia. Steamships started running on both Seton Lake and Anderson Lake, and Seton Portage became a transportation bottleneck, as prospectors would need to portage for two kilometres between the lakes. In 1861 Carl Dozer constructed British Columbia's first railway here to transport passengers and freight across Seton Portage. Most likely the railway was not used much after the colonial government built the Cariboo Road through the Fraser River canyon in 1864 and was likely abandoned shortly thereafter. In 1914, the Pacific Great Eastern Railway built through Seton Portage.
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