Clinton, on the road through Cariboo.

Quesnel is an important and very picturesque place. It is the
present end of steel of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway that
operates from Squamish, 41 miles from Vancouver. The P.G.E.
traverses a country of wondrous scenic attractions, and touches en
route such points as Lillooet, Clinton, and Williams Lake. On the
motor-highway between Soda Creek and Quesnel are many points
of interest, and particularly so is the locality around Alexandria, for
it was in this neighbourhood that Sir Alexander Mackenzie in 1793
turned westward from the Fraser to make his way overland to the
Pacific at Bella Coola, completing the first transcontinental trip of
a white man North of the Spanish possessions.

From Quesnel a road branches 60 miles to old meee the
centre of activity in the gold-mining days. Barkerville is unique, for
here the atmosphere of the past and the present mingle in an
unforgettable manner.

The road beyond Quesnel is modern, for it did not extend much
farther in the days of the gold-rush. Due north 79 miles, over the
plateau, via the settlements at Cinema, Strathnaver, and Woodpecker,
the great highway reaches Prince George, a populous and progressive
city on the Canadian National Railway. Once a famous Hudson’s
Bay fort overlooking the junction of the Fraser and Nechako Rivers,
it is growing in importance year by year. An interesting trip out
of Prince George is to Summit Lake on the continental divide. Its
waters find their way to the Arctic Ocean via the Crooked, Pack,
Parsnip, and Peace to Lake Athabaska and on to the Mackenzie and
the Frozen Sea.

West by Nor’west the highway now trends into the Land of the
Golden Twilight. A run of 69 miles over plateau lands and through
park-like forests of the wide Nechako Valley brings the motorist to
Vanderhoof, near the geographical centre of British Columbia, which
is at Sinkut Lake. From Vanderhoof a branch road, 43 miles,

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