Help On BC Cds On Jubilee Please - Cannot Find In Archives - Little Mystery

A quick search in the "Post Offices and Postmasters" online yielded no result. It is a longish town name definitely ending in ...LE FORKS.

The Library and Archives Canada website (archived now) is useful for most town names, but once in a while I find a missing one. I don't have the Campbell book handy, any of you BC collectors out there with an idea, thank you in advance.

Stumped me.
I only had Finlay Forks, Grand Forks, and Nelson Forks........
Hence I'd suggest a rename.

Could it be Quesnelle Forks? The town was later known as Quesnel Forks, and it is now a ghost town.

Nice work ½d yellow...
Grosvenor auctions

http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/...003_fall.pdf

Thank you, I think you may have it with Quesnelle Forks. Length is about right, and it looks similar to other Cariboo date stamps I have seen.

I too love how a simple cancel on a common stamp can draw one to a faraway place and time, thank you Rod, my compliments on your formidable research skills.

Thank you archerg,

More sugar to sweeten the taste..........
A map for you of Quesnelle Forks.

http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/...0_summer.pdf

I have a book called Barkerville, Quesnel & Caraboo gold rush.

Cheers, Bill

Nice cancel, and great responses! Love the history of philately - town cancels are fascinating

I like how rod222's map shows one of the smaller named lakes as Big Lake.

Big enough if you try swimming across it..

Robert

I winced at "Horsefly Lake"
If they are anything like the Horseflies in Australia, nasty fellows.
When I get bitten, takes a week to heal, along with lots of itching.

Definetly don't want to go swimming in Lighnting Creek! Could be a shocking experience. Then on the other hand, Soda Creek could be refreshing.

That's funny.

Had to research "Cariboo" (esp at Halloween)

Caribou /Cariboo
The word caribou is originally French Canadian, from the Micmac word kaleboo, "the one who paws," for the way caribou scratch the snow aside to find moss in the winter.

You may as well have a couple pictures of the place.
From the Book I mentioned earlier.

Cheers, Bill

Thanks Bill,
nice picture of "Barnard's Express" there......with buggy.

wiki
Barnard's Express, later known as the British Columbia Express Company or BX, was a pioneer transportation company that served the Cariboo and Fraser-Fort George regions in British Columbia, Canada from 1861 until 1921.

The company's beginnings date back to the peak of the Cariboo Gold Rush when hordes of adventurers were descending on the Cariboo region. There was a great demand for the transportation of passengers to and from the goldfields, as well as the delivery of mining equipment, food supplies and mail between Victoria and Barkerville.