The Cariboo is an intermontane region of British Columbia , Canada, centered on a plateau stretching from Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo Mountains . The name is a reference to the caribou that were once abundant in the region.
5-830: The Horsefly River is a river in the Cariboo district of British Columbia , Canada . Originating near the Wells Gray Provincial Park , it flows into Quesnel Lake , the source of the Quesnel River which in turn is a major tributary of the Fraser River . The Horsefly River is the largest inflow for Quesnel Lake, draining 2750 km of the Interior Plateau. It is also a spawning ground for sockeye , chinook and coho salmon . Fossil insects, fish and plants have been collected from Eocene Epoch lake sediments exposed along
10-545: The Willow River . The richest of them all, Williams Creek , is the location of Barkerville , which was both the capital of the Cariboo Gold Rush and of government officialdom for decades afterwards (it is now a museum town). The Cariboo goldfields are underpopulated today but were once the most settled and most significant of the regions of interior British Columbia. As settlement spread southwards of this area, flanking
15-624: The Cariboo proper in its historical sense are debatable, but its original meaning was the region north of the forks of the Quesnel River and the low mountainous basins between the mouth of that river on the Fraser at the city of Quesnel and the northward end of the Cariboo Mountains, an area that is mostly in the Quesnel Highland and focused on several now-famous gold-bearing creeks near the head of
20-467: The river banks. This article related to a river in the Interior of British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cariboo The Cariboo was the first region of the interior north of the lower Fraser River and its canyon to be settled by non-indigenous people, and played an important part in the early history of the colony and province. The boundaries of
25-525: The route of the Cariboo Road and spreading out through the rolling plateaus and benchlands of the Cariboo Plateau and lands adjoining it along the Fraser and Thompson rivers, the meaning changed to include a wider area than just the goldfields. The grasslands of the Cariboo are home to the regionally endangered American badger ( Taxidea taxus jeffersonii ). As early as 1861, Governor Douglas used
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