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The first established road was Cariboo Wagon Road surveyed in 1861 and built in 1862 followed the original Hudson's Bay Company's Harrison Trail (Port Douglas) route from Lillooet to Clinton, 70 Mile House, 100 Mile House, Lac La Hache, 150 Mile House to the contract end around Soda Creek and Alexandria at the doorstep of the Cariboo Gold ...
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.
Route of the Douglas Road (water portions of the Lakes Route in blue, land portions in red) and the Cariboo Road (green) The Lakes Route is an alternate name for the Douglas Road, which was the first formally designated "road" into the Interior of British Columbia, Canada, from the Lower Mainland area flanking the Lower Fraser River.
Route of the Douglas Road (water portions in blue, land portions in red) and the Cariboo Road (green) The Douglas Road, a.k.a. the Lillooet Trail, Harrison Trail or Lakes Route, was a goldrush-era transportation route from the British Columbia Coast to the Interior (NB another route known as the Lillooet Trail was the Lillooet Cattle Trail, which used some of the same route but was built 25 ...
This water-forward park has two locations to enjoy the fun including the Pleasant Hill location at 3431 Ohio 95 in Perrysville and the Atwood Lake location at 9500 Lakeview Road, Mineral City.
The Cariboo Wagon Road was an immense infrastructure burden for the colony but needed to be built to enable access and bring governmental authority to the Cariboo goldfields, which was necessary in order to maintain and assert control of the wealth, which might more easily have passed through the Interior to the United States.
As the years rolled on, complaints about Dug Road continued. The Times Recorder, on Jan. 13, 1900, argued: “Dug Road is almost bottomless. Unusual traffic makes it a regular morass and breeder ...
The River Trail at 40 Mile (i.e. North of Lillooet); area of French Bar Creek (1901 picture) 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 [1] and points beyond in the Cariboo District.