Talk:Cariboo Road
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[edit] Historical addenda
Not directly related to the road, but worth commenting on here:
- Originally Douglas wanted to stretch the Road to Edmonton, an early vision of the Trans-Canada Highway, but this plan was abandoned when Douglas retired.
Douglas' intention in this was for BC to be able to claim part of the Northwest Territory, i.e. what is now Alberta, more or less, to an expanded Colony of British Columbia.Skookum1 22:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Notes on route map
I've shown the route in its original form, with the water section from Alexandria to Quesnellemouthe - which I just noticed I left the first 'e' out of and will have to rebuild the whole map later, layering being what it is and that was one of the first names I placed on the map (grrr). The southern dotted line to Rock Creek and Wild Horse Creek is the Dewdney Trail (more or less; I'll have to re-inspect the route later) and the one west of Yale is the Douglas Road and from Lillooet to Clinton is Blin-Wright's road, which the Cariboo Road followed the older route for from Clinton to Alexandria; the dotted line north of Lillooet up the Fraser is the "river trail", which continued to the Omineca; a branch of it ran northeast from Big Bar Ferry as shown, towards the cutoff for Quesnel Forks. The dotted line approaching Barkerville from the south is the route via "The Forks" - Quesnel Forks, not to be confused with Quesnel, which in those days was known as Quesnellemouthe. I've also shown the water route via Kamloops Lake, the Thompson River and the Shuswap Lakes to the Big Bend, with that last little bit of red being the pass between the Seymour River and the goldfields; I didn't make a town marker there because I'm not sure where it would be. Okanagan Trail and Whatcom Trail also left off the map; partly because by the time the Cariboo Road was built they were more or less out-of-use, at least as far as their political/wartime heyday was involved. Old Yale Road to be added when I know its date (formerly the Grand Trunk, I think; later replaced by the Pacific Highway 1A).Skookum1 01:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
