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. It should not be confused with the Cariboo Road, which was built slightly later and used a different route.
It was built from Lillooet to Alexandria, beginning in 1859, and was a precursor to the slightly later Cariboo Wagon Road that was built from Yale via Cache Creek-Ashcroft. Access to the start of the road at Lillooet was made by the Douglas Road or Lakes Route from Port Douglas, at the head of Harrison Lake.
It is the mileages from Lillooet on the Old Cariboo Road, properly known as the Lillooet-Alexandria Road, that the "road house" placenames of British Columbia, such as 100 Mile House, are measured. The road was a toll-route and built by private contractor Gustavus Blin-Wright, a prominent British-Swedish entrepreneur in colonial British Columbia who also contracted to build roads and provide steamer services in the Kootenay region. Blin-Wright also operated the steamer which connected the end of the road at Alexandria with Quesnel (then Quesnellemouthe).
When the Cariboo Road proper was built, it converged with the existing route of the Old Cariboo Road at Clinton, and followed the earlier road to Alexandria, but was extended up the Fraser from there to Quesnel (thereby eliminating the need for steamer travel on that stretch of the upper Fraser) and completed eastward from there to Barkerville.
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 OldCaribooRoad is a reference to the original wagon road to the Cariboo gold fields in what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. It...
The CaribooRoad (also called the Cariboo Wagon Road, the Great North Road or the Queen's Highway) was a project initiated in 1860 by the Governor of the...
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near Williams Creek. The story is set in 1862. Cariboo camels Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail OldCaribooRoad Omineca Gold Rush River Trail "Barkerville". Retrieved...
Road and the OldCaribooRoad in 1862 and 1863 to haul freight during the Cariboo Gold Rush. Although the experiment was a failure, the Cariboo camels retained...
the Cariboo Wagon Road during the Cariboo Gold Rush. Its name is derived from the distance from Lillooet, which was Mile 0 of the OldCaribooRoad. It...
in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada. Its name is derived from its distance from Lillooet, which was Mile 0 of the OldCaribooRoad. Other...
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Plateau near the Cariboo Mountains 80 kilometres (50 mi) east of Quesnel. BC Highway 26, which follows the route of the Cariboo Wagon Road, the original...
Cariboo Gold Rush, the portage-intensive Douglas Road from the south terminated at Lillooet. Across the Fraser, Parsonville was "Mile 0" of the Old Cariboo...
Columbia, Canada. His biggest achievement was building the OldCaribooRoad to the Cariboo gold fields, from Lillooet to Fort Alexandria, but he was also...
in the 1860s with the onset of the Cariboo Gold Rush and the building of the OldCaribooRoad. The OldCaribooRoad was built from Lillooet to Alexandria...
"Mile '0'" cairn marking the beginning point of the OldCaribooRoad to Alexandria in the Cariboo region. The Museum, which is also the town's official...
Columbia. Mile zero of the OldCaribooRoad is in Lillooet, British Columbia. This was the starting point of the Cariboo Gold Rush Trail, on which the...
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current name during the Cariboo Gold Rush where a roadhouse was constructed in 1862 at the 100 miles (160 km) mark up the OldCaribooRoad from Lillooet.: 198 ...
along McGill Road in September 1971. In May 1972, BC Premier W.A.C. Bennett officially opened the vocational wing. By provincial mandate, Cariboo amalgamated...
approximately the route of the original Cariboo Wagon Road, which was also known as the Queen's Highway. The Cariboo Wagon Road's lower stretches between Yale and...
Mile House. Both are named for their distance from Lillooet via the OldCaribooRoad. List of lakes of British Columbia http://www.topozone.com/map.asp...
prospectors was roadbuilder Gustavus Blin Wright, who had built part of the OldCaribooRoad. However, like many others, Wright would have no luck. Then in 1891...
region its name is derived from its distance from Lillooet via the OldCaribooRoad. 105 Mile House should not be confused with 105 Mile Post Indian Reserve...
highway between Lillooet and Pavilion was part of the route of the OldCaribooRoad, which was developed in the 1850s and 1860s during the Fraser Canyon...
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