Irene Stangoe’s Cariboo Trail Communities: From 70 Mile House to 100 Mile House and Williams Lake provides a localized historical survey tracing the evolution of civic settlements along the primary interior highway corridor. Stangoe documents how early stagecoach stops and cattle ranches expanded into organized rural municipalities, focusing on the development of Williams Lake from an agricultural crossroads and Pacific Great Eastern Railway stock shipping point into the primary commercial centre of the Cariboo-Chilcotin. The text chronicles prominent ranching families, early civic leaders, and the establishment of community institutions such as the Williams Lake Stampede. Stangoe also details the histories of neighboring settlements throughout the San Jose valley and surrounding plateaus, including 150 Mile House, Lac la Hache, 108 Mile Ranch, Glendale, and Enterprise.

108 Mile Ranch (B.C.), 150 Mile House (B.C.), British Columbia Williams Lake, Cariboo (B.C.), City of Williams Lake, Enterprise (B.C.), Frontier and pioneer life British Columbia Cariboo Region, Glendale (B.C.), History, Lac la Hache (B.C.), Local history, South Lakeside (B.C.), Williams Lake (B.C.) History

Heritage Journey Series, Vol. 1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Heritage Journey Series, Vol. 1. Includes bibliographical references and index.