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(83 MILE HOUSE) Snowmobilers and others using the Gold Rush Snowmobile Trail have a new place to warm up and stay dry thanks to the Jobs Creation Partnership (JCP) Project. The JCP Project marked another milestone Friday with the opening of a warming hut installed on the trail at 83 Mile House. Minister of [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (BRIDGE LAKE) The “Entrance to the Bear World” will be graced by a magnificent menagerie of First Nations animal artwork. The crowd at an event marking a milestone in the Ice Caves Project at Bridge Lake got a sneak peak of the beautiful Indigenous art that will greet visitors once work [...]

You can help save the salmon, catch a ground-breaking play about an abandoned boy and hike or bike like a Crazy Ant along the New Pathway to Gold this September. The Gold Rush/Spirit Trails corridor from Hope to Barkerville is popping with projects supported by the New Pathways to Gold Society (NPTGS). Powwows, plays, [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (XAT’SULL ) Cutting a new ribbon at the old Emporium Restaurant is the perfect way to open a new trail at Soda Creek that links ancient heritage routes dating back to the Gold Rush and beyond. The public is invited to the trail's Grand Opening on August 17, 3:00 p.m. at [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (100 MILE HOUSE) The Jobs Creation Partnership (JCP) Project is marking a milestone with the construction of a log building to be installed at Canim Lake. Chief Michael Archie (Canim Lake First Nation, Tsq'escenemc) and MLA Donna Barnett (Cariboo-Chilcotin) were among the dignitaries who inspected the structure today (July 21) at [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (100 MILE HOUSE) Local organizations and government are teaming up to provide new skills for workers, new amenities for heritage and recreation sites and a boost to the Cariboo’s economy under the Jobs Creation Partnership (JCP) program. Five participants will be hired to work on four separate phases of the $400,000 [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (LILLOOET) The Mile 0 cairn was a fitting spot for the New Pathways to Gold Society (NPTGS) to begin the next phase of its journey down the Gold Rush/Spirits Trails. Thanks to new funding from the provincial government, NPTGS will be able to continue to create economic development opportunities via heritage tourism [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The “Battle of the Birds” will take flight in February at the Talking Stick Festival in Vancouver. This ground-breaking community engagement theatre creation led by of Kevin Loring and his Savage Society theatre troupe is based on a traditional Nlakap’amux story. The production features an award-winning cast and is full of songs [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (SPUZZUM) They’ll be bridging the past and present as well as cultures this weekend at the Spuzzum First Nation First Fish Ceremony. For the second year in a row, the Spuzzum First Nation (SFN) will be holding this millennia-old ceremony of thanks and appreciation for abundance in their traditional territory at [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (CHILLIWACK) A Working Group has been formed to develop a strategy to save the historic 1926 Alexandra Bridge and develop the adjacent site’s heritage tourism potential. The group composed of members from First Nations, heritage tourism organizations and businesses, the Chinese Canadian community and representatives from the civic and provincial levels [...]