Barkerville

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Barkerville

Coordinates53.07°, -121.52°

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Barkerville was the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada, and is preserved as a historic town. It is located on the north slope of the Cariboo Plateau near the Cariboo Mountains 80 kilometres (50 mi) east of Quesnel. BC Highway 26, which follows the route of the Cariboo Wagon Road, the original access to Barkerville, goes through it.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Bert Sincock

Canadian baseball player

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Ian Hagemoen

Canadian football player

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in British Columbia

• Keithley Creek
  22.3 mi away
• Likely
  31.2 mi away
• Goat River
  50.4 mi away
• Horsefly
  50.8 mi away
• ʔEsdilagh
  53.8 mi away
• Penny
  54.4 mi away
• Castle Rock
  54.6 mi away
• Miocene
  55.2 mi away
• Longworth
  58.7 mi away
• Sinclair Mills
  66.2 mi away
• 150 Mile House
  68 mi away
• Sugar Cane
  69.2 mi away

Browse all places in British Columbia →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Barkerville

Barkerville

Harris, Chris · 1999

Canada's gold rush church

Joan Weir · 1986

Placer and Vein Gold Deposits of Barkerville, Cariboo District, British Columbia

Geological Survey of Canada. · 1926

Historic Barkerville

Canada. British Columbia. Parks Branch.

Soils of the Barkerville Area, British Columbia

Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Research Branch · 1985

Barkerville Gold Belt, Cariboo District, British Columbia

Geological Survey of Canada. · 1935

Barkerville area, Cariboo District, British Columbia

Barkerville Gold belt, Cariboo District, British Columbia

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Steller's Jay

Cyanocitta stelleri

Seen 2026-09-12

Common Loon

Gavia immer

Seen 2026-08-28

American Black Bear

Ursus americanus

Seen 2026-08-28

White-spotted Sawyer

Monochamus scutellatus

Seen 2026-08-28

pineapple-weed

Matricaria discoidea

Seen 2026-08-28

fireweed

Chamaenerion angustifolium

Seen 2026-08-28

black crowberry

Empetrum nigrum

Seen 2026-08-09

Columbian Ground Squirrel

Urocitellus columbianus

Seen 2026-08-03

Inimical Northern Caddisfly

Nemotaulius hostilis

Seen 2026-07-27

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).