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The following sites are identified on the Bowman Map detailing Yanks Peak, The Snowshoe Creeks and Keithly Creek.
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"Shaft 45 Feet, No Bedrock"
These are photo's of a cabin site at a shaft on French Snowshoe Creek. This shaft is marked on Bowmans map. The cabin was originally built in the 1800's and then refurbished in the 1930's.
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Snowshoe Creek Cemetery
Restoration of this historical record was by the efforts of many people including Dave Falconer.
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More historical locations
Remains of the "Steel and Cunningham Tunnel on a Quartz Ledge 1878" . I would suspect that the tunnel is intact and only the entrance has caved in.
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Haphazard History: The Live Yank’s Hotel
Many people in the Cariboo have heard of Yank’s Peak, the 6,200-foot mountain to the north of Keithly Creek.
Some have even hiked, four wheeled, or biked over that area to Barkerville.
Late in 1860, by far the richest gold deposits of the Cariboo Gold Rush were discovered just a few miles further north at Antler Creek.
In 1861 and 1862, thousands of goldseekers travelled by way of Keithly Creek, Snowshoe Creek and up over the Snowshoe Plateau to Antler Creek and its tributaries.
Lying in the shadow of Yank’s Peak is Luce Creek, one of the small streams that feed into Snowshoe Creek.
Both the mountain and the creek are named after William “the Live Yank” Luce.
He was a native of Bangor, Maine, who arrived in the Cariboo in the early 1860s after having participated in the California gold rush.
Early in 1863 he staked a claim on Little Snowshoe Creek, where he prospected for signs of gold, did some placer mining and built a cabin beside the trail to Antler Creek.
It was a fairly good-sized cabin, about 16 by 20 feet.
Many travellers and packers on their way north would stop by this cabin and ask if they could stay the night and the place soon became known as the Live Yank’s Hotel.
Gradually, add-ons and lean-tos were constructed until the whole structure grew to be about 20 by 40 feet in size...Read More
Some have even hiked, four wheeled, or biked over that area to Barkerville.
Late in 1860, by far the richest gold deposits of the Cariboo Gold Rush were discovered just a few miles further north at Antler Creek.
In 1861 and 1862, thousands of goldseekers travelled by way of Keithly Creek, Snowshoe Creek and up over the Snowshoe Plateau to Antler Creek and its tributaries.
Lying in the shadow of Yank’s Peak is Luce Creek, one of the small streams that feed into Snowshoe Creek.
Both the mountain and the creek are named after William “the Live Yank” Luce.
He was a native of Bangor, Maine, who arrived in the Cariboo in the early 1860s after having participated in the California gold rush.
Early in 1863 he staked a claim on Little Snowshoe Creek, where he prospected for signs of gold, did some placer mining and built a cabin beside the trail to Antler Creek.
It was a fairly good-sized cabin, about 16 by 20 feet.
Many travellers and packers on their way north would stop by this cabin and ask if they could stay the night and the place soon became known as the Live Yank’s Hotel.
Gradually, add-ons and lean-tos were constructed until the whole structure grew to be about 20 by 40 feet in size...Read More
