The Cariboo Gold Rush took place when news spread of a rich find in the remote, isolated Cariboo Mountains region of British Columbia, which later became a province of Canada. The town of Barkerville was built up almost overnight, named for Billy Barker from Cambridgeshire, England, who was among those who first struck gold at the location in 1862, and …
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