Cache Creek

Long before fur traders, Gold Rush Miners, ranchers and settlers arrived in this valley, people of the Shuswap Nation followed a nomadic lifestyle here for thousands of years. In the early 1860s, the Cariboo Gold Rush was in full swing, and the Cariboo Waggon Road was being built to handle the traffic of miners and supplies north to the goldfields and Barkerville.

Once a midway point on the Fraser Canyon route from the Lower Mainland to the Interior, and a good place for travellers to rest on the exhausting Gold Rush Trail, Cache Creek is named after the habit of travellers hiding their 'cache' in a nearby creek (Bonaparte River) while they rested before continuing on their journey. Other versions of the origin of the name tell of a robber who stole and 'cached' gold from a prospector along the Bonaparte River. To this day, this 'cache' has never been found.

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Cache Creek, BC