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The Old
Cariboo Road started at Lillooet (or 0 Mile House) where it directly went to Alexandria. From there a steamboat service was provided to Quesnellemouthe (now Quesnel) where it ended. A trail from there then went east to Barkerville where gold was discovered. From Lillooet there was a trail
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that went south to Lytton. This was part of the Old
Cariboo Road that avoided the Fraser Canyon. By 1864 a new Cariboo road was built, which took a different route, although from Clinton to Alexandria much of the Old Cariboo Road was used for the newer Cariboo Road.
84:, a prominent British-Swedish entrepreneur in colonial British Columbia who also contracted to build roads and provide steamer services in the Kootenay region. Blin-Wright also operated the steamer which connected the end of the road at Alexandria with
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fur traders brigades followed this route up until 1847, when the Hudson's Bay
Company withdrew from the Northwest. Cattle drives were common along this trail to supply the gold miners, who arrived in British Columbia in the late 1850s.
95:, and followed the earlier road to Alexandria, but was extended up the Fraser from there to Quesnel (thereby eliminating the need for steamer travel on that stretch of the upper Fraser) and completed eastward from there to
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184:) to the gold mining regions of British Columbia was known as the "Cariboo Trail" or the "Wallula-Okanogan Road". Connecting to the
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From
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is a reference to the original wagon road to the
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known as a "road train", one of the earliest motorized vehicles.
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Building
Washington: A History of Washington State Public Works
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The
Development of Communications in Colonial British Columbia
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38:, which was built slightly later and used a different route.
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Gold Mining and the Early
Development of British Columbia
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It was along this route that an attempt was made to use
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346:Gold and the Early Settlement of British Columbia,
188:at Wallula, it ran north across Quincy Flats past
352:Halfway to the Goldfields - A History of Lillooet
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126:12 Mile Roadhouse, Fountain (burned down 1980s)
1226:Historic trails and roads in British Columbia
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200:. From there it turned north and crossed the
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305:Dorpat, Paul; Genevieve McCoy (1998).
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309:. Tartu Publications. p. 70.
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204:to reach the Columbia River near
146:and passed north through Eastern
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1174:highways with expressway and
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1211:British Columbia gold rushes
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1206:History of British Columbia
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981:International Selkirk Loop
868:Former provincial highways
267:Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail
230:Horsefly, British Columbia
132:Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail
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88:(then Quesnellemouthe).
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779:Columbia Valley Highway
1056:Sunshine Coast Highway
834:Pavilion Mountain Road
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1122:Lillooet Cattle Trail
976:Inland Island Highway
829:Omineca Resource Road
819:Mission Mountain Road
262:Lillooet Cattle Trail
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118:The Old Cariboo Trail
16:Further information:
1236:Hudson's Bay Company
1061:Trans-Canada Highway
1031:Patricia Bay Highway
854:Telegraph Creek Road
799:Highway 91 Connector
769:Chilliwack Lake Road
170:Washington Territory
162:Hudson's Bay Company
112:Thomson Road Steamer
82:Gustavus Blin-Wright
69:or Lakes Route from
53:that was built from
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794:Hemlock Valley Road
404:Provincial highways
277:Old Cariboo Highway
106:purchased from the
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1107:Dewdney Trunk Road
1066:Yellowhead Highway
1036:Sea to Sky Highway
1016:Okanagan Connector
956:Coquihalla Highway
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172:a wagon road from
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961:Crowsnest Highway
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1021:Okanagan Highway
1001:Mary Hill Bypass
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67:Douglas Road
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1148:River Trail
814:Likely Road
272:River Trail
198:Coulee City
182:Walla Walla
140:Wallula Gap
138:, near the
97:Barkerville
59:Cache Creek
1200:Categories
1168:expressway
1082:Atlin Road
824:Nazko Road
754:Atlin Road
289:References
190:Moses Lake
148:Washington
47:Alexandria
391:Roads of
1180:sections
1171:sections
245:See also
63:Ashcroft
43:Lillooet
1221:Cariboo
1177:freeway
174:Wallula
93:Clinton
86:Quesnel
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226:Likely
218:Savona
236:Route
180:near
311:ISBN
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55:Yale
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