Roadhouses

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Introduction

Cariboo Road Sections

Yale to Spuzzum

Contracts for Road Builders

Spuzzum to Lytton

Lytton to the junction with road from Lillooet

Lillooet to Fort Alexandria

Quesnel to Barkerville

Bibliography

Lytton to the junction with road from Lillooet

About the same time Joseph Trutch was building the Alexandria Bridge, Thomas Spence was to place a bridge across the Thompson River at the site of Cook's Ferry which he named Spence's Bridge.
BC ARCHIVES A-03568
Spence's Bridge

Walter Moberly
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Walter Moberly

Walter Moberly, a successful civil engineer, Charles Oppenheimer, a partner in the firm of Oppenheimer Brothers, and Thomas B. Lewis accepted the contract to build the section from Lytton until the road joined a junction with the wagon road to be built by Gustavus Blin Wright.

Lillooet to Fort Alexandria



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