The Road Runs West: A Century Along the Bella Bella / Chilcotin Highway

This is the unusual story of a very unusual road: the 456-km Chilcotin Highway, which runs from Williams Lake to Bella Coola and is known as the 'loneliest road in BC." The highway took ninety years to build through some of the roughest terrain in Canada. Its history is served up here with plenty of photos and lots of anecdotes about the people who built the highway and the people who needed it.It all started during the Cariboo Gold Rush of the 1860s, when a Victoria promoter named Alfred W...