Sentence examples for cariboo from inspiring English sources

Agriculture, forestry, and coal interests were by then replacing those of fur, but there were never more than several hundred residents until the discovery of gold in 1858 along the banks of the Fraser River and later in the interior Cariboo region, both in mainland British Columbia.

We were lucky to see some wild cariboo and had the opportunity to go inside an igloo.

Cariboo gold rush, Canadian gold rush that took place in the remote, isolated Cariboo Mountains region of British Columbia between 1860 and 1863.

The Cariboo gold rush, which began in 1858, took place in the Fraser River basin.

The 400-mile (650-kilometre) Cariboo Road from Yale at the head of navigation of the Fraser River to Barkerville was the major wagon route in the 1860s to the gold-mining region; it is now rebuilt and much extended.

The mountains comprise four distinct ranges (Cariboo, Monashee, Selkirk, and Purcell), each rising to over 10,000 feet (3,000 m).

"Helmets are not just for racers anymore, they are for everyone," said Harry Davison, a banker and avid skier, whose experiences have included helicopter skiing in the Cariboos in Canada and glacier skiing in Corvatsch, Switzerland.

From a base of 30 Cariboos in Paris, the company now has around 500 people worldwide in 100 destinations, from France, Spain and the UK, to India, Brazil and Mexico.

Now partly owned by the skiing conglomerate Intrawest Corporation, CMH runs its trips from 11 different sites scattered around the Cariboos, the Selkirks, the Monashees and the Purcells.

Since my teens, I had dreamed of piling out of a helicopter onto the peaks of exotic-sounding ranges like the Cariboos, the Bugaboos and the Monashees in Canada.

Mike Wiegele, another Austrian, came to Canada in the late 1950's and began leading helicopter trips in the Cariboos in the early 1970's.