Additional Resources

Listed below are resources where you can obtain further information about the history of the Horsefly area; Print, Video, Web, Audio.
These links will take you outside of this site. Some are linked to commercial websites which are intended as additional resources only and not for promotion.


Print Resources

  • Dunlevey - A story of the First Cariboo Gold Strike - Edith Hewson
  • Soils of the Horsefly area, British Columbia - T.M. Lord
  • Gold & Grand Dreams: Cariboo East in the Early Years - Marie Elliot
  • Barkerville, Quesnel & the Cariboo gold rush - Gordon Raymond Elliott
  • Golden Nuggets: Roadhouse Portraits Along the Cariboo's Gold Rush Trail - Bertrand M. Patenaude, Branwen C. Patenaude
  • The Cariboo Gold Rush Story - D. Waite
  • Overland to Cariboo: an eventful journey of Canadian pioneers to the gold fields of British Columbia in 1862 - Margaret McNaughton
  • Packers, pans, and paydirt : prospecting to the Cariboo - Noel George Duclos
  • Cariboo: The Newly Discovered Gold Fields of British Columbia - publisher: Glen Adams
  • Cariboo Gold: The Story of the British Columbia Gold Rush - Marian Place
  • From California to North 52 Degrees: Cariboo Experiences - Todd Lee, Eldon Lee
  • Chiwid (Transmontanus series) - Sage Birchwater
  • Looking back at the Cariboo-Chilcotin with Irene Stangoe - Irene Stangoe
  • Histories Happenings In the Cariboo Chilcotin - Irene Stangoe
  • Cariboo-Chilcotin: Pioneer People - Irene Stangoe
  • Tie Hackers to Timber Harvesters: The History of Logging in British Columbia's Interior - Ken Drushka
  • Land of Dreams: A History in Photographs of British Columbia Interior - Meredith Bain Woodward
  • Ghost Camps and Boom Towns - Joann Roe
  • Trails to gold - Branwen C. Patenaude
  • Overlanders - Richard Thomas Wright

Check your local Library for the availability of these books or
look for them through bcbooks.com or amazon.ca

Video Resources

CHBC's Video Collections for Sale including Gold Trails & Ghost Towns Volumes
http://www.chbc.com/feature/video/

Web Resources

BC Archives, Royal BC Museum
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/index.htm

Genealogy and Historical related links for the Cariboo & Chilcotin Regions
Look under Horsefly
http://www.rootsweb.com/~bccaribo/geolinks.html

Genealogy and Historical Record links for the Cariboo & Chilcotin Regions
http://www.rootsweb.com/~bccaribo/recrdlink.html

A Chronology of Horsefly
http://www.rootsweb.com/~bccaribo/horsefly.html

A Profile on the Patenaude Family
http://www.rootsweb.com/~bccaribo/patenaude.html

QUESNELLE FORKS - Cariboo ghost town is a B.C. nugget
The Vancouver Sun - June 12, 1999
http://www.huaren.org/diaspora/n_america/canada/doc/061299-01.html

Cariboo Chilcotin Coast Communities
including communities along the Cariboo Gold Rush Trail
http://www.landwithoutlimits.com/index.html?p=118

Gold Seal - Wild Salmon Education
Article discussing the Adams and Horsefly Rivers Sockeye Salmon
http://www.goldseal.ca/education/salmon_education.asp?article=5

Audio Resources

Rough But Honest Miner, a CD of reclaimed music of the 1860s, and published a companion volume, Castles in the Air: Music & Stories of British Columbia's 1860s gold rush.
http://goldrushbc.com/roughcd.htm

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