- Cariboo
The Cariboo is an
intermontane region ofBritish Columbia along a plateau stretching from theFraser Canyon to theCariboo Mountains . The name is a reference to the woodlandcaribou that were once abundant in the region. The Cariboo was the first region of the Interior north of the lower Fraser and its canyon to be settled by non-indigenous people, and played an important part in the early history of the colony and province. The boundaries of the Cariboo proper in its historical sense are debatable, but its original meaning was the region north of the forks of theQuesnel River and the low mountainous basins between the mouth of that river on the Fraser at the city of Quesnel and the northward end of the Cariboo Mountains - an area that is mostly in theQuesnel Highland and focussed on several now-famous gold-bearing creeks near the head of theWillow River , the richest of them all,Williams Creek , the location ofBarkerville , which was the capital of theCariboo Gold Rush and also of government officialdom for decades afterwards (it is now a museum town). This area, the Cariboo goldfields, is underpopulated today but was once the most settled and most powerful of the regions of the province's Interior. As settlement spread southwards of this area, flanking the route of theCariboo Road and spreading out through the rolling plateaus and benchlands of theCariboo Plateau and lands adjoining it along the Fraser and Thompson, the meaning changed to include a wider area than the goldfields.Major towns
*Quesnel
*Wiliams Lake
*100 Mile House
*Likely
*Horsefly
*Barkerville
*Wells
*Bridge Lake
*Clinton
*Cache Creek
*Ashcroft
*Lillooet
*Lytton
*Spences Bridge
*Savona
*Kamloopsee also
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Cariboo Plateau External links
* [http://www.jnweb.com/british-columbia/south-cariboo-information.html Information on the South Cariboo]
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