ALLISON DRUG
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C. H. ALLISON, Proprietor.

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QUESNEL BRITISH COLUMBIA

QUESNEL

PPROACHING the town from the south and for a distance of nine miles,
q a new motor highway has been built eliminating the notorious sliding
Mud Hill, which has baffled the road builders for thirty years. From
the top of Red Bluff one again sees the Fraser almost beneath them and the
picturesque town. This Red Bluff is composed of burnt shale in varied colors
of reds and yellows, similar to what the motorist runs over a few miles north
of Ashcroft. This material is admirably adapted for road building. At the
foot of Red Bluff is the Quesnel River bridge, which spans the river a short
distance above the point where it empties into the Fraser. Bridge is 580 feet
in length. The centre span is the longest wooden structure in B.C. (200 ft).
The Town of Quesnel is situated on a beautiful plateau at the junction
of the Quesnel and Fraser rivers. Quesnel Townsite is 1,500 feet-above sea
level. It was founded by Jules Maurice Quesnel, one of Simon Fraser’s
exploration party in the year 1818, but it came into existence as a town in
1859 at the time of the Cariboo gold rush.

The town is at present the northern terminus of the Pacific Great East-
ern Railway, at a distance of 390 miles from Vancouver; and from Prince
George south 82 miles. At this point of the Cariboo Road the mileage is 220
miles from Ashcroft, on the C.P.R. Here will be found three good garages
with modern equipment, gas, oil and free air service. The Cariboo Auto-
mobile Association are endeavoring to arrange a suitable camping site, and
tourists may rest assured that everything will be done for their comfort.
Quesnel has three churches, superior school, bank, post office, telegraph
office, and all lines of general business are well represented. The Provincial
Government operate a liquor store here. Quesnel has a good hospital with
a nursing staff of three graduate nurses, and a doctor, G. R. Baker, whose
surgical ability ranks very high in the Province. A new and modern hospital
is being built here this year which will have an X-Ray equipment.

At the Provincial Government building here is handled all matters per-
taining to public works, land, mining, timber, etc. There is a local news-
paper and printing plant, a local telephone service and a modern creamery
(now turning out 1,500 pounds of butter per week), and cement brick works.

TWENTY-THREE