Barkerville
Barkerville was the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada, and is preserved as a historic town. It is located on the north slope of the Cariboo Plateau near the Cariboo Mountains 80 kilometres east of Quesnel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Cariboo Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Barkerville, British Columbia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chee Kung Tong Building and St. Saviour’s Anglican Church.
Chee Kung Tong Building
Historic site
Photo: Mike, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Chee Kung Tong Building is a Canadian historic building in Barkerville, British Columbia. The building is a rare surviving example of Canadian Chinese benevolent society architecture.
St. Saviour’s Anglican Church
Church
St. Saviour's Anglican Church is an historic one-storey rustic Carpenter Gothic Anglican church building located in the National Historic Site of Barkerville, British Columbia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wells-Barkerville.
Wells-Barkerville
Photo: Mike, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wells is a small mining and tourist town in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. Barkerville is a ghost town 8 km east of Wells. It was the main centre of Cariboo Gold Rush, and the northern terminus of the Cariboo Wagon Road.
Barkerville
- Categories: ghost town, open-air museum, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Cariboo Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
53.06667° or 53° 4′ northLongitude
-121.51668° or 121° 31′ westElevation
1,340 metres (4,396 feet)Open location code
945W3F8M+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 52553541OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Barkerville” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “巴克维爾”
- Czech: “Barkerville”
- Dutch: “Barkerville, British Columbia”
- Dutch: “Barkerville”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باركرفيل”
- French: “Barkerville (Colombie-Britannique)”
- French: “Barkerville”
- German: “Barkerville”
- Irish: “Barkerville”
- Portuguese: “Barkerville”
- Slovak: “Barkerville”
- Spanish: “Barkerville”
- “Barkerville”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Barkerville”. Photo: JMEG, CC BY 2.0.