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 ...

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.

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.

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.

When Stewart Cawood returned to British Columbia’s historic gold rush town of Barkerville earlier this week, he said the town looked almost like it had been “ransacked.” ...

The British Columbia gold rush town of Barkerville is drenched, both from overnight rains and sprinklers dousing its timber buildings, some more than 150 years old.

BARKERVILLE — The British Columbia gold rush town of Barkerville is drenched, both from overnight rains and sprinklers dousing its timber buildings, some more than 150 years old. It’s part of ...