Author: [British Columbia Department of Lands].
Title: [Original Folding Map]: British Columbia / East Cariboo Block / Scale 3 Miles to 1 Inch / 2,845,000 Acres.
Description: [Victoria, B.C.]: [B.C. Department of Lands, Victoria], [1920's]. [1920's]. [Victoria, B.C.]: [B.C. Department of Lands, Victoria], [1920's]. [1920's]. Very good. - An original 40-1/2 inch high by 37 inch wide map of the East Cariboo Block of British Columbia printed in white on blueprint stock. The large map is unevenly folded down to measure 10-3/4 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. The historic "Gang Ranch", one of the largest in Canada, is represented at bottom left of the map in the southwest section with "Dog Creek" north of the ranch. "150 Mile House" is also indicated. "Barkerville", once the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush is located at the Northern edge at the center top of the map. The map includes such lakes as "Mahood Lake", "McIntosh Lake", "Murphy (Eagle) Lake", "Spout Lake", "Hobson Lake", "Clearwater Lake", "Cariboo Lake", "Quesnel Lake", "Horsefly Lake", etc. A trail, with annotations, is penned in red crayon or grease pen. The trail, which is traced out in red, runs from just south of Boss Lake, passes by Hobson Lake to the east and then north of Ghost Lake. It then rounds Quesnel Lake east of a long telephone line. Annotations in red along the eastern portion of this trail indicate "Snow Mts", "High" and "Low Pass". Additional annotations penned in black identify 4 sets of waterfalls, indicted as "Falls", along the Horsefly River. "3200" degrees is penned at right of the last waterfall. There are several pictorial markings penned along the left section of the Horsefly River. At least 2 areas are identified by the word "burn". We could not read a few other annotations penned in black ink on the dark blue paper north of the river. There is a small tear to the bottom edge of the map near the lower right corner and a couple of tiny chips to the top edge of the map. Very good. RARE. WorldCat locates a map at the Simon Fraser University Library which is quite possibly the same map. There are no indications of the place or date of publication present on the map but the University attributes its publication to the B.C. Department of Lands, Victoria and dates it as 1929. An additional note in the library's listing indicates that "this is the block referred to in schedule A of the "P.G.E. Railway Aid Act 1925". Very good .

Keywords: CANADIANA; FOLDING MAP; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; CANADIAN PROVINCE; BRITISH COLUMBIA EAST CARIBOO BLOCK; TRAIL; ANNOTATED IN CRAYON; INK ANNOTATIONS; DOG CREEK; GANG RANCH; BARKERVILLE; MAHOOD LAKE; HOBSON LAKE; CARIBOO LAKE; HORSEFLY LAKE; QUESNEL LAKE;


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