Golden Country: On Sept. 3, 1926, long-awaited Cariboo Highway opens - The Ashcroft

Golden Country: On Sept. 3, 1926, long-awaited Cariboo Highway opens - The Ashcroft

By 1922, momentum had been building for the creation of an automobile route connecting the Lower Mainland with the rest of the province. The 1862 Cariboo Wagon Road from Yale through the Fraser and Thompson Canyons had been severed in 1894, when flooding destroyed the bridge across the Fraser River at Spuzzum. The bridge had not been rebuilt, meaning there was no easy way to travel to the Interior except by train. As motor cars became less expen…