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The third Cariboo Road was the revised route following the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. The railway station at Ashcroft became the southern end of the wagon road. Much of the Fraser Canyon wagon road was destroyed by the railway construction as well as by washouts and by the Great Flood of 1894 (interest in rebuilding ...
In 1862, Alfred Waddington began lobbying the press and his political allies for support to build a wagon road from Bute Inlet to Fort Alexandria, where it would connect to the Cariboo Road and continue on to the goldfields at Barkerville. [3] He received approval for the construction early in 1863.
It is located on the north slope of the Cariboo 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 access to Barkerville, goes through it.
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 ...
The boom in the Cariboo goldfields was the impetus for the construction of the Cariboo Wagon Road by the Royal Engineers, which bypassed the older routes via the Fraser Canyon and the Lakes Route (Douglas Road) via Lillooet by using the canyon of the Thompson River to Ashcroft and from there via the valley of the Bonaparte River to join the ...
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 ...
Gustavus Blin Wright 1870. Gustavus Blin Wright (June 22, 1830 – April 8, 1898) [1] was a pioneer roadbuilder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada.His biggest achievement was building the Old Cariboo Road to the Cariboo gold fields, from Lillooet to Fort Alexandria, but he was also a partner in a freighting firm that operated on the Douglas Road, he ran a toll bridge at Bridge River ...
Construction begins on the Cariboo Wagon Road to link coastal shipping to Barkerville and the Cariboo goldfields. Arts and literature. This section is empty.