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Steamboat Saga.

View of river in Cariboo region of B.C.

Text on sign: "Steamboat Saga. : Smooth rivers and great lakes once were the highways of travel. On them plied stately paddle-wheelers, helping exploration and settlement of the Interior. They speeded gold-seekers bound for the "Big Bend" rush of 1864-65. They freighted grain from the Okanagan. They were vital in building the C.P.R. - and doomed by the railway they helped to build. : Department of Recreation & Conservation."

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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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