NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Cariboo Road

The Cariboo Road (also called the Cariboo Wagon Road, the Great North Road or the Queen's Highway) was a project initiated in 1862 by the colonial Governor of British Columbia, James Douglas. It was a feat of engineering stretching from Fort Yale to Barkerville through extremely hazardous canyon territory in the Interior of B.C. Image File history File links 708px-South_BC-NW_USA-relief_CaribooRoad. ... Image File history File links 708px-South_BC-NW_USA-relief_CaribooRoad. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo - Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 36 - Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area Ranked 4th - Total 944,735 km... James Douglas Sir James Douglas, K.C.B, (August 15, 1803 â€“ August 2, 1877), was born of a Scottish father and Creole mother in Demerara. ... Front Street, Yale, British Columbia circa 1882 during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. ... â‰ˆÂ§ Barkervilles main street, taken in June 2004, showing the historic buildings and a small stream of water flowing down its sloped, unpaved, roads. ...

The road was a reaction to the high concentration of gold in the Cariboo region and the dangerous "mule trail", which was a rough-hewn cliff-side trail wide enough only for one mule that ran along the approximate route of the Cariboo Road. In order to lower supply costs to the settlers in the Cariboo region, Douglas ordered the construction of a more viable and safe form of transportation to the gold mining settlements. A portion of the Cariboo Road in British Columbia, circa 1867 – 1868. ... A portion of the Cariboo Road in British Columbia, circa 1867 – 1868. ... Cunt BAg Twat Fuk suck my penis ring 0778851865!!!!!!Year 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... The Cariboo is a region of British Columbia along a plateau stretching from the Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo Mountains. ...

Building the road cost nearly one and a quarter million dollars, but only created a debt of £112,780. It saw the transportation of over six and a half million dollars worth of gold. Originally Douglas wanted to stretch the Road to Edmonton, an early vision of the Trans-Canada Highway, but this plan was abandoned when Douglas retired. Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, situated in the north central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farm land on the prairies. ... The Trans-Canada Highway is a federal-provincial highway system that joins all ten provinces of Canada. ...

Along the Cariboo Gold Rush trail, the cost of food was astronomical. Gold rushers who ran out of money quickly found themselves on the verge of starvation. The jobs created by the building of the Cariboo Road provided money and food for the desperate, and saved many lives. The Cariboo Gold Rush is the most famous of the gold rushes in British Columbia and is erroneously sometimes mentioned as the reason for the creation of the Colony of British Columbia. ...

The "Old" Cariboo Road

The name Cariboo Road is also informally applied to a toll-road built by contractor Gustavus Blin-Wright from Lillooet to Alexandria, known also as the Old Cariboo Road, when the Lakes Route from Port Douglas to Lillooet had not yet been superseded by the Fraser Canyon route of the Cariboo Wagon Road proper. The mile-house names (e.g. 100 Mile House), in the Cariboo are derived from measurements taken from the Mile '0' of this road, which is in the bend in the Main Street of Lillooet and commemorated there by a cairn erected in the 1958 Centennial Year. It was along this route that an attempt was made to use Bactrian camels purchased from the U.S. Camel Corps for freight, and also a tractor-style Thomson Road Steamer known as a "road train", one of the earliest motorized vehicles. The Old Cariboo Road is a reference to the original wagon road to the Cariboo gold fields in what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. ... The saga of the Cariboo camels is one of the most interesting pages in the history of British Columbia. ... Gustavus Blin Wright 1870 Gustavus Blin Wright was a pioneer roadbuilder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada. ... Fort Alexandria (1910s) Alexandria or Fort Alexandria is a National historic site on the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada and was the end of the Old Cariboo Road and the Cariboo Wagon Road. ... The Old Cariboo Road is a reference to the original wagon road to the Cariboo gold fields in what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. ... Port Douglas, British Columbia is a remote community at the head of Harrison Lake, which is the head of river navigation from the Strait of Georgia. ... 100 Mile House is a town located in central British Columbia, Canada. ... Binomial name Linnaeus, 1758 Bactrian Camel range The Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus) is a large even-toed ungulate native to the steppes of eastern Asia. ... The U.S. Camel Corps was a mid-nineteenth century experiment by the United States Army in using camels as pack animals in the Southwest United States. ...

Most foot traffic from Lillooet to the Cariboo, however, went by the "River Trail", far below the wagon road, which departed the Fraser Canyon at Pavilion for the steep climb over Pavilion Mountain to Clinton, where it merged with the newer Cariboo Road via Yale and Ashcroft (once the latter route was completed, that is). The River Trail continued along the Fraser Canyon as far as Big Bar and various routes spread towards Quesnel and Barkerville from there. There are many uses for River Trail: The River Trail (Arizona) is a hiking trail in Grand Canyon National Park, located in the U.S. state of Arizona. ... Clinton is a village in central British Columbia, Canada. ...

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Categories: History of British Columbia | Gold rushes | Cariboo Country | Thompson Country | Fraser Canyon | Canada road stubs The Douglas Road, aka the Lillooet Trail, Harrison Trail or Lakes Route, was a goldrush-era transportation route from the British Columbia Coast to the Interior. ... The Gold Rush of British Columbia occurred after gold was discovered in the Fraser River Valley. ... The Old Cariboo Road is a reference to the original wagon road to the Cariboo gold fields in what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. ... The Cariboo Gold Rush is the most famous of the gold rushes in British Columbia and is erroneously sometimes mentioned as the reason for the creation of the Colony of British Columbia. ... Solid line is Whatcom Trail, dotted line is Skagit Trail Settlements extant in 1858 are shown only The Whatcom Trail was an overland trail from the Puget Sound area of Washington Territory during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858-60. ... Route of the Okanagan Trail. ... Trails, Roads and Water Routes in Colonial British Columbia. ... The Lillooet Cattle Trail, also known as the Lillooet-Burrard Cattle Trail, was an unusual public works undertaking by the Province of British Columbia in the 1887, and was the largest public works expenditure of that province in the 19th Century. ... British Columbia provincial highway 97 is the longest continuously-numbered route in the province, running 2,081 km from the Canada/U.S. border at Osoyoos in the south to the British Columbia/Yukon border in the north at Watson Lake, Yukon. ... The Old Cariboo Highway runs toward Prince George, British Columbia from the South. ... The River Trail was a main route for travel in the colonial era of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia, running northwards along the Fraser River from to present day Lillooet to Big Bar, British Columbia and points beyond in the Cariboo District. ...

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The "Old" Cariboo Road