DCHP-3

Cariboo slum

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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thick slippery mud, or gumbo, found in the creek valleys of the B.C. interior.

See: slum

Quotations

1952
Ah Bau was a Chinese who panned for gold in that same slippery mud called Cariboo Slum that was to plague two generations of railroad builders who followed him.
1958
Despite the dread "Cariboo slum" which bedevilled miners on Lightning Creek, some $13,000,000 was taken from it.