19th-century gold rush in British Columbia, Canada
Barkerville (1865), shown rebuilt after the Great Fire, with its new, straightened and wider, Main Street. The creek in the foreground is Williams Creek, which is paralleled by Main Street throughout.
The Cariboo Gold Rush was a gold rush in the Colony of British Columbia, which later became the Canadian province of British Columbia. The first gold discovery was made at Hills Bar in 1858, followed by more strikes in 1859 on the Horsefly River, and on Keithley Creek and Antler Creek in 1860. The actual rush did not begin until 1861, when these discoveries were widely publicized. By 1865, following the strikes along Williams Creek, the rush was in full swing.
Towns grew up, the most famous of these being Barkerville, now preserved as a heritage site and tourist attraction. Other important towns of the Cariboo gold rush era were Keithley Creek, Quesnel Forks or simply "the Forks", Antler, Richfield, Quesnellemouthe (which would later be shortened to Quesnel), Horsefly and, around the site of the Hudson's Bay Company's fort of the same name, Alexandria.
The CaribooGoldRush was a goldrush in the Colony of British Columbia, which later became the Canadian province of British Columbia. The first gold discovery...
into the gold fields, and gold out of it (see Francis Jones Barnard and B.X. Express). Among other events associated with the CaribooGoldRush was the...
the capital of the CaribooGoldRush and of government officialdom for decades afterwards (it is now a museum town). The Cariboo goldfields are underpopulated...
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and the Old Cariboo Road in 1862 and 1863 to haul freight during the CaribooGoldRush. Although the experiment was a failure, the Cariboo camels retained...
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there. The Cariboo Road was featured on the television historical series Gold Trails and Ghost Towns, season 2, episode 4. Fraser Canyon GoldRush Whatcom...
town of the CaribooGoldRush in British Columbia, Canada, and is preserved as a historic town. It is located on the north slope of the Cariboo Plateau near...
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on the Cariboo Wagon Road during the CaribooGoldRush. Its name is derived from the distance from Lillooet, which was Mile 0 of the Old Cariboo Road....
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Mile House, the community's origins date to the days of the CaribooGoldRush and the Cariboo Wagon Road, for which it provided an important roadhouse....
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