[BCMA] Go for gold while Chasing the Golden Butterfly down the Cariboo Waggon Road Barkerville

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Subject: 	Go for gold while Chasing the Golden Butterfly down the 
Cariboo Waggon Road Barkerville
Date: 	Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:44:09 -0700
From: 	James Douglas <JDouglas at barkerville.ca>
To: 	Barkerville Historic Town <barkerville at barkerville.ca>



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*Go for gold while /Chasing the/ /Golden Butterfly/ down the Cariboo 
Waggon Road to Barkerville *

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*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *

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*July 9, 2010*

 

Here's a revolutionary idea for Bastille Day: go for gold while /Chasing 
the/ /Golden Butterfly/ down the Cariboo Waggon Road in Barkerville.

 

The historic Cariboo Gold Rush town is setting up three new geocaches 
along the famed Waggon Road from Barkerville to Wells and beyond to 
Stanley. As part of the /Chasing the Golden Butterfly/ geocache/passport 
program, the caches will be activated during a "mega-event" on July 14.

 

And inside each cache will be a vial of 24 carat gold leaf as a special 
prize for the first person/persons to find it.

 

Events will also be held in Hope, Princeton and Klahowya Village, the 
First Nations village in Stanley Park.

 

A heritage initiative coordinated by the New Pathways to Gold Society 
(NPTGS), /Chasing the Golden Butterfly/ combines a traditional passport 
program like the one used during Expo 86 with the geocaching to 
encourage travelers to visit historic sites.

 

The Barkerville-Wells-Stanley event helps launch a whole new route for 
the program, one based on B.C.'s Heritage Trails system. A large crowd 
is expected to gather at 2 p.m. at the cairn commemorating the National 
Historic Site designation of the Cariboo Waggon Road (located at the top 
end of the final mile of the Waggon Road, just below the historic 
Richfield Courthouse). Judge Matthew Begbie will throw the ceremonial 
switch to activate the golden caches.

 

Barkerville Historic Town spokesperson James Douglas said geocaches are 
a fun and inexpensive way of keeping smaller historic sites like Stanley 
on the map.

 

"Stanley had a thriving community of Chinese miners that endured 
incredible hardships during the gold rush," said Douglas.

 

"Today it's the trailhead of a 20 kilometre section of intact Cariboo 
Waggon Road that leads to Rihfield and Barkerville."

 

Geocaching is a hi-tech treasure-hunting pastime that uses a Global 
Positioning System (GPS) device. Played all over the world, geocaching 
is a great way to explore B.C.'s historic sites and heritage trails.

 

Other new caches to be activated July 14 can be found near Klahowya 
Village and at the Peers Creek Trailhead near Hope, gateway to the 
restored the historic 1849 Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail.

 

The /Chasing the Golden Butterfly/ program is also adding existing 
caches from partner organizations and communities. The Princeton Visitor 
Centre and Chamber of Commerce is adding four of their existing caches. 
Existing caches from the Gold Country Communities Society (GCCS) 
GeoTourism Program are also being added.

 

/Chasing the Golden Butterfly/ is supported by a partnership between 
NPTGS, BC150, GCCS, ATBC, Vancouver Coast and Mountain Tourism 
Association, Cariboo Coast Chilcotin Tourism Association, B.C. 
Transmission Corporation and community sponsors.

 

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*For additional information, contact: *

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*James Douglas
*Marketing and Communications
Barkerville Historic Town
james.douglas at barkerville.ca
250-994-3302 ext. 41
888-994-3332 toll free*

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*OR:*

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*Don Hauka*

Communications Consultant

New Pathways to Gold Society

ddclauka at shaw.ca

Telephone:  604-787-9155

 

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