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Quesnel (/ k w ɪ ˈ n ɛ l /; Kee-nel in French) is a city located in the Cariboo Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. Located nearly evenly between the cities of Prince George and Williams Lake, it is on the main route to northern British Columbia and the Yukon. Quesnel is located at the confluence of the Fraser River and Quesnel River.
Many of the homes in the district belonged to Burlington's most influential residents, including merchant Ephraim Perkins, the Meinhardt banking family, and Louis H. Rohr, owner of the Wisconsin Condensed Milk Company. The district includes examples of most of the popular American architectural styles of the nineteenth and early twentieth ...
The Burlington Downtown Historic District is a 15 acres (6.1 ha) historic district located in Burlington, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1] It includes 80 contributing buildings and 17 non-contributing ones, as well as a non-contributing site. Included are:
Inscription at the end of the Alexander Mackenzie's Canada crossing located at . The Alexander MacKenzie Heritage Trail (also Nuxalk-Carrier Route, [1] Blackwater Trail, or simply The Grease Trail) is a 420 km (260 mi) long historical overland route between Quesnel and Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada (53.269N,123.149W to 52.968N, 125.704W) Of the many grease trails connecting the Coast ...
Indian Reserves under the administration of the Red Bluff First Nation are: [2]. Dragon Lake Indian Reserve No. 3, 3 miles E of Quesnel, 14.80 ha. 3]; Quesnel Indian Reserve No. 1, on left (E) bank of the Fraser River, 1 mile S of Quesnel, 552.70 ha. 4]; Rich Bar Indian Reserve No. 4, on left (E) bank of the Fraser River, 3 miles S of Quesnel, 96.40 ha. 5]; Sinnce-tah-lah Indian Reserve No. 2 ...
Nazko / ˈ n æ z k oʊ / is a small ranching and logging community, including a historic First Nations community located 100 km west of Quesnel on the Nazko River in the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Nazko means, "river flowing from the south". [2] Nazko is the gateway to the Nuxalk Carrier Grease-Alexander Mackenzie Heritage ...
Burlington's first private school, the Burlington Academy, was founded in 1844 as a result of dissatisfaction with the other schools operating at the time. One of its early teachers was John F. Potter, later a Congressman from Wisconsin. [36] The Burlington Academy no longer operates. Private and parochial schools in Burlington include:
Stagecoach and Sternwheel Days in the Cariboo and Central BC. Heritage House. ISBN 0-919214-68-1. Leonard, Frank (1996). A Thousand Blunders: The History of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in Northern British Columbia. UBC Press. ISBN 0-7748-0552-8. West, Willis (1949). BX and the Rush to Fort George. BC Historical Quarterly. Koppel, Tom (1995).