| Take a trip thru time and see British Columbia's roots!
The very fine folks at Barkerville are knowledgeable and eager to help your experience. From the first you set eyes on this place it's easy to feel a simpler time and it's more than a job to people that work here it's an obvious Passion! Here is the 1870's all over again! "GOD SAVE QUEEN VICTORIA" You'll have a Great time that someone may write about for the next 148 years... |
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| Barkerville days
By Fred W Ludditt. |
| Barkerville, Quesnel & the Cariboo gold rush by
Gordon Raymond Elliott |
| Barkerville, a Guide to The Fabulous Cariboo Gold Camp
By Bruce Ramsey |
| Discover Barkerville, A Gold Rush Adventure by
Richard Thomas Wright |
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| In Ross Bay Cemetery,
Victoria British Columbia. WILLIAM (Billy) BARKER A simple English sailor with the luck of the Irish. The Barker Claim was staggeringly RICH. But Billy blew the money "High Wide & Handsome" and in a few short years. Nuggets gone, he was found cooking for a road crew, building the New wagon road into Barkerville from Quesnelle Mouth, now "Quesnel". He died of lip Cancer in the Old Men's Home in Victoria in 1894. He was laid to rest in an unmarked pauper's Grave. He was 77. Many years later his Head Stone was laid by an original pioneer of Barkerville.... |
| Barkerville.ca |
| Friends of Barkerville |
| Barkerville.com |
| Wikipedia, Barkerville British Columbia |
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