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Boat encampment monument plaque.

Text on plaque : "Erected by the government of Canada. : Boat Encampment. : A port of transhipment in fur- trading days. Here boats from Fort Vancouver (Now Vancouver, Washington), On the lower Columbia, waited for pack trains coming over the mountains from Jasper House. : First visited by David Thompson in 1811, this point was for almost half a century a meeting place for the fur brigades of the North West Company and later of the Hudson's Bay Company. : By-passed by the railways this historic spot was made accessible to visitors by the completion of the Big Bend Highway in June, 1940."

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Ghost of Walhachin roadside marker.

Message on marker: "Ghost of Walhachin : Here bloomed a "Garden of Eden"! The sagebrush desert changed to orchards through the imagination and industry of English settlers during 1907-14. Then the men left to fight- and die - for king and country. A storm ripped out the vital irrigation flume. Now only ghosts of flume, trees, and homes remain to mock this once thriving settlement. : Department of Recreation & Conservation."

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Lake of the Shuswap road sign with lake in background.

Text on sign reads: "Lake of the Shuswap. : This beautiful lake takes its name from the Shuswap Indians, northernmost of the great Salishan family and the larges tribe in Interior B.C.. Once numbering over 5,000 these people were fisherman and hunters. They roamed in bands through a vast land of lakes and forest stretching 150 miles to the west, north, and east. : Department of Recreation and Conservation."

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Frank Slide historical sign.

Sign reads: "Frank Slide April 29 1903. Disaster struck the town of Frank at 4:10 A.M. April 29thth 1903 when a gigantic wedge of limestone 2.100 feet high 3.000 feet wide and 500 feet thick crashed down from Turtle Mountain. Ninety million tons of rock swept over a mile of valley, destroying part of the town, taking 70 lives, and burying an entire mine plant and railway in approximately 100 seconds. The old town was located at the western edge of the slide where many cellars still are visible.".

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Monument in commemoration of the work of Her Majesty's Royal Engineers.

Plaque reads: "1859-1927 in commemoration of the work of Her Majesty's Royal Engineers and in respectful admiration of the skill and energy displayed by them from 1859 to 1863 in the construction of the original Cariboo highway through the Fraser Canyon . This tablet is erected and dedicated by The Engineering Institute of Canada and The Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia.".

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Fraser's River road sign with view of river.

Sign reads: " "...We could scarcely make our way even with our guns. We had to pass where no human being should venture ; yet in those places there is a regular... path ... indented upon the very rocks." So wrote Simon Fraser and fur-trader, in 1808, the first white man to descend the river which bears his name.".

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Historic Yale road sign with view of town.

Sign reads: "This was the head of navigation on the Fraser River. Founded in 1848 as a Hudson's Bay Company fur post, For Yale later became a roaring gold-rush town and for 20 years was the starting point of the famous Cariboo wagon Road. Yale faded with the gold-rush but boomed again in C.P.R construction days as a wide open western town. Department of Recreation & Conservation.".

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Fur, Gold, and Cattle roadside sign.

Text on sign : "Fur, Gold, and Cattle. : Founded in 1812, Fort Kamloops stood at a natural crossroads. For 50 years it remained the focus of an inland fur empire until the roaring mining boom of the 1860's. Ranchers, with cattle and horses, replaced the miners. They settled, and stayed, to see two railways bring prosperity anew to this land of sagebursh, sun and great rivers. : Department of Recreation & Conservation."

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