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Overlander
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:Overlander of '62
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
one of a group of people from the Canadas who, in 1862, undertook a long and arduous journey overland from Ontario to the Cariboo goldfields in British Columbia.
See: Argonaut
Quotations
1916
. . . some of the Overlanders had narrowly escaped a massacre.
1950
The most remarkable immigrants of all deserve to be remembered--the Overlanders of '62, the men (and one pregnant woman) who walked to Cariboo across the Rocky Mountains and ran the Fraser on rafts in the strangest movement of those times.
1958
Starving, almost naked, penniless, the "Overlanders" settled down on small farms and millsites to found Kamloops' sawmilling, agricultural and other industries.
1963
Among those who heard the call of "Gold in the Cariboo!" were the Overlanders, a company that toiled across the prairies in covered wagons, and on foot through the Rockies at Yellowhead Pass.