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 history.

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 ...

In September 1868, a saloon fire burned the town of Barkerville to the ground. More than 150 years later, another blaze is now threatening the place its website describes as the "largest living ...

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.” Barkerville and the ...

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 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.

2:19 Venables Valley residents take stock of wildfire damage The evacuation order for the Barkerville area has now been downgraded to an evacuation alert. The Cariboo Regional District Emergency ...

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.

Junior mine developer Barkerville Gold Mines (BGM) will start immediate development and mining of the Bonanza Ledge deposit, at Barkerville Mountain near Wells, British Columbia, after completing ...

Barkerville Brewing Co. has created a new beer celebrating B.C.’s first licensed dentist in honour of Black History Month. The beer is called Painless Jones Schwarzbier named after William Allen Jones ...

It has been “about some 10 years” since Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, and Sports (TACS), Spencer Chandra Herbert’s first visit to Barkerville, but the Minister says it won’t be that long until ...

British Columbia Mistreatment of Chinese pioneers during B.C.'s gold rush commemorated in historic ghost town Bronze plaque to stand beside Barkerville's historic Chinatown archway ...