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Share of the Great Cariboo Gold Company, issued 1. May 1917. 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 ...
The Cariboo camels were a number of camels that arrived in British Columbia, Canada, as pack animals. The Bactrian camels were used on the Douglas Road and the Old Cariboo Road in 1862 and 1863 to haul freight during the Cariboo Gold Rush. Although the experiment was a failure, the Cariboo camels retained an almost legendary status in local ...
Peace River Gold Rush, 1861 (a.k.a. Finlay Gold Rush) Stikine Gold Rush, 1861 The Finlay and Peace-Finlay Gold Rushes prompted the declaration of the Stickeen Territories, which lay north of the colony's boundary, the line of the Nass and Finlay Rivers, extending to the 62nd parallel, west of the Rockies. Shuswap Gold Rush (Spallumcheen River)
The company's beginnings date back to the peak of the Cariboo Gold Rush when hordes of adventurers were descending on the Cariboo region. There was a great demand for the transportation of passengers to and from the goldfields, as well as the delivery of mining equipment, food supplies and mail between Victoria and Barkerville .
In 1863, he left the Cariboo and transported the coffin back by ship, crossing overland at the Isthmus of Panama, and eventually returned home where he had the coffin reburied. In 1865, he remarried and built a new residence at Fairfield at Summerstown, on property formerly owned by John Cameron, a distant relative. In 1873, he had his first ...
Barkerville was the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada, and is preserved as a historic town.It is located on the north slope of the Cariboo Plateau near the Cariboo Mountains 80 kilometres (50 mi) east of Quesnel.
Quesnel Forks was founded in 1860 and was a major supply center for the Cariboo Gold Rush.Between 1860 and 1862 it catered to 2,000 or more transient miners annually and a resident population of approximately 100.
As a boy, Sepass accompanied his tribe north into the Fraser Canyon which was experiencing the Cariboo Gold Rush. His father built and operated a cedar log freight canoe to transport miners and supplies across Chilliwack Lake near the US/Canada border. His maternal grandfather was a chief from further north on the Thompson River.