Cariboo Wagon Road

Cariboo Wagon Road is a historic site in Fraser Valley Regional District, British Columbia. Cariboo Wagon Road is situated nearby to the historic building Ward House, as well as near the museum Yale Historic Site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yale.

Yale

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Yale is an unincorporated town in the Canadian province of British Columbia, which grew in importance during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Located on the Fraser River, it is generally considered to be on the dividing line between the British Columbia Coast and the Interior regions of the British Columbia Mainland.

Cariboo Wagon Road

Type: Sign
Inscription: “Constructed between 1862 and 1865 by the colony of British Columbia, this impressive 650 kilometre-long road greatly improved access to the Cariboo gold fields. It began at Yale, head of steam navigation on the Fraser, and was part of Governor Douglas’s p”
Categories: information, tourism, historic site, and monument
Location: Fraser Valley Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

49.56128° or 49° 33′ 41″ north

Longitude

-121.43177° or 121° 25′ 54″ west

Operator

Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada

Open location code

84XWHH69+G7

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6230776181

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=monument

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=information

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