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region and the dangerous "mule trail", which was a rough-hewn cliff-side trail - wide enough only for one mule - that ran along the approximate route of the
Cariboo Road. In order to lower supply-costs to the settlers in the Cariboo region, Douglas ordered the construction of a more viable and safe
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wagon road was destroyed by the railway construction as well as by washouts and by the Great Flood of 1894 (interest in rebuilding this portion of the road would not occur until the construction plans for the Fraser Canyon
Highway for automobiles in the 1920s).
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form of transportation to the gold-mining settlements. The colonial government employed locals as well as the
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known as a "road train", one of the earliest motorized vehicles.
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