(Emcon Services Inc.) Hixon resident Carolyn Dobbs-Sutherland drives 60 kilometres every day south to Quesnel, in the Cariboo region of B.C.'s central Interior, via the Quesnel-Hixon Road.

In the late 1850s and early 1860s gold-seekers started to move up from the Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo ... the number of people who were there.” It was an impressive feat, given the road ...