Provides very unique gulf islands biking and gulf islands beachfront resort. The legacy of these prospectors can be found in the many Ghost Towns that dot the Interior today. In response to the frenzied discovery and mining of gold, the British Government quickly created the mainland colony of British Columbia in 1858. In 1866 the colony of Vancouver Island was combined with the colony of British Columbia, with Victoria becoming the provincial capital of British Columbia on April 2 1868. Provides very unique gulf islands biking and gulf islands beachfront resort.
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In 1871, with the promise of completing the Canadian Pacific Railway by 1885, British Columbia was lead into confederation, rather than join the United States to the south, with Victoria as the seat of Government. Provides very unique gulf islands biking and gulf islands beachfront resort. The Cariboo Wagon Road was constructed from the town of Yale to the boomtown of Barkerville, which in in its heyday was the largest city west of Chicago and north of San Fransisco. Completed in 1865, the Cariboo Wagon Road opened up the British Columbia Interior, with mule trains and stagecoaches plying the route, and roadhouses and boomtowns dotting the roadside. Gold was discovered further north, placing Dawson Creek on the brink of the huge Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. Provides very unique gulf islands biking and gulf islands beachfront resort.