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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1950

At every stopping place a hotel sprang up, the rude but well-fed mile houses of the Cariboo road. . . .

1950

Starting first from Lillooet, as the jumping-off place of the Harrison route, and then from Ashcroft when Douglas's road was built, every stopping place along the way was called a "mile house." It had no name but its number. Even now you speak of stopping at the Seventy, or the Hundred, or the Hundred and Fifty.

1966

. . . several farms and ranches were established, mainly at way points along the Cariboo wagon-road, such as the well-known 70 Mile, 100 Mile, and 150 Mile Houses. These "mile houses" were spaced about a horse-team's change apart along the Cariboo Road and were numbered as distances from Lillooet.