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The Cariboo Regional District spans the Cities and Districts of Quesnel, Williams Lake, 100 Mile House, and Wells in the Central Interior of British Columbia. Geography [ edit ]
Williams Lake is a lake in the city of the same name in the Cariboo region of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Williams Lake Indian Reserve No. 1, a.k.a. "Sugarcane Reserve" is located around the east end of the lake. British Columbia provincial highway 97, the Cariboo Highway, runs along the lake's northern side.
Williams Lake is a city in the Central Interior of British Columbia, in the central part of a region known as the Cariboo. Williams Lake is one of the largest cites, by population of metropolitan area, in the Cariboo after neighbouring Quesnel . [ 3 ]
In 1985, the Williams Lake campus moved to the 55,000 square-foot Hodgeson Road facility, which would later close due to seismic instability. [ 6 ] In 1989, Cariboo College was one of three colleges chosen by the province to become a new entity, a "university college," to provide degrees in regional centres.
As of the 2020 provincial election, Cariboo-Chilcotin comprises the southern portion of the Cariboo Regional District. It is located in central British Columbia. Communities in the electoral district consist of Williams Lake and 100 Mile House. [1]
The richest of them all, Williams Creek, is the location of Barkerville, which was both the capital of the Cariboo Gold Rush and of government officialdom for decades afterwards (it is now a museum town). The Cariboo goldfields are underpopulated today but were once the most settled and most significant of the regions of interior British Columbia.
Note: This article is for features and facilities which are directly under the administration or jurisdiction of the government of the regional district. For geographic features, Indian Reserves and band governments, and provincial and federal parks in the area circumscribed by its boundary, see Category:Cariboo Country , and Category:Chilcotin ...
Originally a company town, [2] it was managed by Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine. Fred M. Wells, for whom the town was named, prospected in the area for 10 years before finding the minerals that built the company. [3]: 292 At its heyday of the 1930s, Wells sported 4500 people. [4] In 1942 it had a greater population than Quesnel or Prince George. [5]