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Cariboo Wagon Road—A User’s Perspective
The Cariboo Wagon Road was built by the Royal Engineers in the 1860s. The road linked Yale, the head of navigation on the Fraser River, with Barkerville, the center of the Cariboo gold rush. The Cariboo Road was the primary link between the Cariboo gold fields and the outside world for several decades. The Author’s Great Grandfather, the Reverend William V Sexsmith was the Wesleyan Methodist Minister in Barkerville from 1877 to 1881. In 1879 he traveled the length of the Cariboo Road from Barkerville to Yale and then by steamboat to Victoria to attend church meetings. He then traveled to Ontario by steam ship to San Francisco, CA, and railway to Napanee, ON. The purpose of the trip was to visit family (he was born in what is now Ontario) and more importantly to get married. He and his new bride then returned to Barkerville via the same route. Great Grandfather Sexsmith kept journals from time to time while he lived in British Columbia. One of those journals covers his 1879 trip from Barkerville to Victoria. During that trip, which took many days, he traveled by cutter, horseback, stage coach, steam boat, and on foot. Another journal covers the railway trip with his new bride from Napanee to San Francisco.
Cariboo Wagon Road—A User’s Perspective
The Cariboo Wagon Road was built by the Royal Engineers in the 1860s. The road linked Yale, the head of navigation on the Fraser River, with Barkerville, the center of the Cariboo gold rush. The Cariboo Road was the primary link between the Cariboo gold fields and the outside world for several decades. The Author’s Great Grandfather, the Reverend William V Sexsmith was the Wesleyan Methodist Minister in Barkerville from 1877 to 1881. In 1879 he traveled the length of the Cariboo Road from Barkerville to Yale and then by steamboat to Victoria to attend church meetings. He then traveled to Ontario by steam ship to San Francisco, CA, and railway to Napanee, ON. The purpose of the trip was to visit family (he was born in what is now Ontario) and more importantly to get married. He and his new bride then returned to Barkerville via the same route. Great Grandfather Sexsmith kept journals from time to time while he lived in British Columbia. One of those journals covers his 1879 trip from Barkerville to Victoria. During that trip, which took many days, he traveled by cutter, horseback, stage coach, steam boat, and on foot. Another journal covers the railway trip with his new bride from Napanee to San Francisco.
Cariboo Wagon Road—A User’s Perspective
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Gupta, Rishi (editor) / Sun, Min (editor) / Brzev, Svetlana (editor) / Alam, M. Shahria (editor) / Ng, Kelvin Tsun Wai (editor) / Li, Jianbing (editor) / El Damatty, Ashraf (editor) / Lim, Clark (editor) / Sexsmith, W. C. (author)
Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference ; 2022 ; Whistler, BC, BC, Canada
Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2022 ; Chapter: 53 ; 867-875
2023-08-17
9 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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