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    The document summarizes plans by Governor Douglas to build a new wagon road called the Cariboo Wagon Road to safely connect miners and travelers to goldfields in Barkerville, British Columbia. The 650 km road will be built over 3 years at an estimated cost of $750,000. It will follow an existing Hudson's Bay Company trail, beginning in Yale and running north along the Fraser Canyon to Lytton, then directly to Quesnel and eventually Barkerville. Miners hired along with royal engineers will construct a wide, smooth trail to allow safe crossing of rivers and hills with wagons.

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    The document summarizes plans by Governor Douglas to build a new wagon road called the Cariboo Wagon Road to safely connect miners and travelers to goldfields in Barkerville, British Columbia. The 650 km road will be built over 3 years at an estimated cost of $750,000. It will follow an existing Hudson's Bay Company trail, beginning in Yale and running north along the Fraser Canyon to Lytton, then directly to Quesnel and eventually Barkerville. Miners hired along with royal engineers will construct a wide, smooth trail to allow safe crossing of rivers and hills with wagons.

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    The document summarizes plans by Governor Douglas to build a new wagon road called the Cariboo Wagon Road to safely connect miners and travelers to goldfields in Barkerville, British Columbia. The 650 km road will be built over 3 years at an estimated cost of $750,000. It will follow an existing Hudson's Bay Company trail, beginning in Yale and running north along the Fraser Canyon to Lytton, then directly to Quesnel and eventually Barkerville. Miners hired along with royal engineers will construct a wide, smooth trail to allow safe crossing of rivers and hills with wagons.

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    The document summarizes plans by Governor Douglas to build a new wagon road called the Cariboo Wagon Road to safely connect miners and travelers to goldfields in Barkerville, British Columbia. The 650 km road will be built over 3 years at an estimated cost of $750,000. It will follow an existing Hudson's Bay Company trail, beginning in Yale and running north along the Fraser Canyon to Lytton, then directly to Quesnel and eventually Barkerville. Miners hired along with royal engineers will construct a wide, smooth trail to allow safe crossing of rivers and hills with wagons.

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    New Road!
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    Fort Langley Monday January 22, 1862 1 page


    two cents
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    Miners and travelers do
    not despair for Governor
    Douglas had come to you
    need. He has realised how
    dangerous the trails are for
    you travel to the mines by
    Barkerville so has decided to
    build a new road called the
    Cariboo Wagon Road.
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    Map of Wagon Road


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    The distance of the road
    will be approximately 650 km

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    Governor Douglas has
    hired miners as well as a
    detachment of the royal
    engineers to build this road.
    The Road will be able to
    easily fit two wagons
    travelling side-by-side.
    Douglas has estimated this
    road will take only 3 years to
    build at a cost of 750,000
    dollars. The real question is
    How will we pay for this road?
    Will taxes be raised? Budgets
    cut?(More on page 2)

    The Route

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    Hudson Bay Company trail
    that ran ran from the head of
    Harrison Lake to Lillooet Lake
    and by passing the Fraser
    River Rapids. The new wagon
    road will begin at Yale then
    will be running northwards
    along the steep walls of the
    Fraser Canyon all the way to
    the town Lytton. It will then
    go directly overland to
    Quesnel and then eventually
    reach Barkerville, leading the
    miners directly to the
    goldfields.

    long. The trail will enable


    miners to safely cross rivers
    and hills without having to
    make alternative routes.
    Miners will also be able to
    easily be able to bring
    wagons and carts with them
    on the smooth trail.

    The route for the road


    was originally surveyed in
    1858 but the plans were not
    made public until yesterday.
    The Royal Engineers shall
    widen an old

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