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ashcroft Historic Ashcroft is situated on a flat bench overlooking the Thompson River in a unique desert setting. Located off Hwy 1, it is 10 km southeast of Cache Creek and less than 100 km west of Kamloops. The Thompson-Shuswap natives first called the area Tuk Tuk Chin, but the town went through many names - Harper’s Mill, Barnes Station and still later St. Cloud - before settling on Ashcroft, adopting the name from the nearby ranch of the Clement brothers. The townsite was surveyed in 1883 using the
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property of John C. Barnes and E. William Brink. For many years, Ashcroft bustled with the business of transportation. The Canadian Pacific Railway arrived in 1884 and Ashcroft became the railhead for the north, and the third Mile “0” for the Cariboo Road (after Lillooet and Yale). Ashcroft quickly replaced Yale as the gateway to the Cariboo, and for the next 30 years it served as a major supply centre for the goldfields in the north. The Barnard Express (later British Columbia Express) carried supplies to Barkerville with heavy freight wagons drawn by teams of four to eight oxen, mules or horses, and stagecoaches carried mail and passengers north and gold south on the return trip. Ashcroft lost its position as the main supply centre for the north when mechanized transportation turned the Cariboo Road into a highway and the Pacific Great Eastern Railway pushed through from Vancouver to the Cariboo and from Alberta to Prince George in 1920. Pioneers and Politicians Ashcroft Manor was built in 1862 by brothers Clement and Henry Cornwall, who settled on 6,000 acres. They ran the
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Telephone: 250-453-2292 Fax: 250-453-9176 417 Railway Avenue, Ashcroft
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CHIROPRACTIC Dr. James Kendall, DC Ashcroft Office
250-453-9227
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570 Mesa Vista Drive Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada www.bbexpo.com/willow pdenis@telus.net Reservations are recommended
250-453-2266 250-256-3715 411 Brink St., 1st f lo or, front entrance, Ashcroft
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HIGH ON THE MESA above Ashcroft, Willow’N offers a spectacular panoramic view of the Thompson River valley. Our peaceful setting is truly a slice of romantic serenity.
Ashcroft, Cache Creek & Area Guide
2012