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; Undoubtedly the credit for finding the first gold in the
“hills of the Cariboo by.a white man belongs to Peter Cur-
ran Dunlevey, who led a party of prospectors into. the
‘Horsefly country in the spring or early summer of 1859.

‘. It is a curious fact that while many accounts have been

written of the early gold rush
into the Cariboo, the full
story of Dunlevey’s trip has
never been written to.m-y
knowledge. Even Father
Morice gives but a bare men-
tion of it in his “History of
the Northern Interior of B.
C.”” And yet from the chron-
ological and historical point of
view and by right of priority,
it is the most important of
any of them, since the whole
Jabric of the story of tive
Cariboo and its bearing on the
of the province rests upon it.

Alex P. McInnis. Born at

Barkerville, April 11th, 1868. In preparing this booklet, I
Residence, Marguerite, am glad to acknowledge val-
B. C. uable assistance from Rev.

a ~~~ Father G. Forbes O.M.I. of St.
Joseph’s Mission, where Dunlevey was ‘buried and from
‘my old frionds Robert N. Campbell of Horsefly and Charles
‘Moffitt, son of the late Tom Meffitt af the story. But in
the main, I have to rely on my memory of the story as told.
ye in mv youth, and not once but many times, by Dunlevey
himseir, Begbie, Baptiste, the guide, and the late Thomas
Moffitt, who was one of the original partners.

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' Let us hope the reader will find so much of interest in
the story as not to pay too much attention to the manner
of its: writing.

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