our fleeting sojourn over the hills and byways to the
Land of the Golden Twilight .. . careening over the
ever-winding trail of the Cariboo.

From the seaboard the way lies through the fertile
fields of the Fraser Valley and the smiling lands of
Sumas and Chilliwack, on to Hope, a former stock-
aded fur-trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company,
from where the road leads to historic Yale, which in
the days before the gold-rush, was also a fur-trading
establishment. It has indeed seen history in the
making has old Yale, where the mighty Fraser river
breaks through the granite walls of the Cascade
Range.

Following as closely as possible the old road, the
modern “‘trail to Cariboo emerges from the canyon
at the confluence of the Fraser and Thompson rivers
at the head of which lies Lytton, an old historic town.
The awesome grandeur and majestic beauty of this
country must be travelled to be appreciated. In that
stretch of country along the Fraser, were many river-
bars where gold was panned and rockered. From
Lytton we travel along the road through the hills
and valley, passing en route such towns as Spence’s
Bridge, Ashcroft and Hat Creek up to Clinton which
is the entrance to a vast fertile region and rich in
mineral potentialities.

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