Barkerville is a small historical town in British Columbia’s central interior. Although little known, it nevertheless marked the glorious era of the Gold Rush in the early days of Canada's ...

Visitors to the historical town of Barkerville, British Columbia, can ride a stagecoach. Thousands flocked to the town during the Cariboo Gold Rush in the 19th century to look for the precious metal.

At one end of town is Barkerville’s Chinatown, since half of the estimated 5,000 residents at the height of the Cariboo Gold Rush were from China.

Barkerville was the centre of the 1860s gold stampede credited with forging British Columbia’s political identity, first as an embryonic British colony, then, eventually, a province.

British Columbia Residents fear losing historic Barkerville to wildfire. ... Lee Chong and Kim Wong, opened and operated the Lee Chong general store in Barkerville's Chinatown in the 1930s.

A monument will soon be erected near the entrance of a historic Chinatown archway in Barkerville, a living-history museum in British Columbia's Cariboo region.. The commemorative plaque, the fifth ...

1:49 B.C. wildfires: Antler fire growing away from community of Barkerville and Wells The British Columbia gold rush town of Barkerville is set to reopen Friday after a nearby wildfire forced ...