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Amber Stratton and her son, Bayley, stand outside the historic 153 Mile Store Friday. A third-generation Patenaude, Amber and the entire Patenaude family are working with the City of Williams Lake to preserve the building and its contents by possibly moving it to Williams Lake.
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Cariboo Gold Rush history on the move Nick Eagland Special to Tribune/Advisor A century-old Cariboo time capsule like no other is on the brink of being opened for all the world to see. In the early 1900s, Italian set-
tler Louis Crosina built a stopping house and store just outside of Williams Lake to serve pioneers trekking the Cariboo Wagon Road, a gold-seekers’ route that stretched all the way from Yale to Barkerville. But in 1914, when business out-
grew the store, Crosina and his family decided to expand with a second two-storey, tin-roofed log building known now as the 153 Mile Store. Joe and Peggy Patenaude bought that store — along with the rest of
the 153 Mile Ranch — in 1958 and the store still sits there today, packed with decades-old sundries and supplies seldom touched or seen. See PATENAUDE Page A3
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