In the days of ‘‘ Golden Cariboo,” where the richest placer-
diggings in the world were found in the early sixties of the last cen-
tury, Yale—or, as it was originally known, Fort Yale—was the head
of navigation on the Fraser River. ‘To meet the requirements of
travel to the diggings of Cariboo, the Royal Engineers surveyed the
road through the rocky canyons of the Fraser, and brave and daunt-
less men carved it in places from the precipitous walls of the
mountains, or bridged yawning chasms and foaming torrents. Its
completion was a marvel of engineering skill and a tribute to the
courage of the people of the then infant British Columbia.

The ramparted road looks down upon the Fraser.

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