[BCMA] Fwd: Barkerville's Mid-Autumn Festival offers moon cakes, music, and magic to more than 1500 visitors, thanks to support from McElhanney Consulting Services, Ltd.

Fri Aug 31 08:50:50 PDT 2012

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Subject: 	Barkerville's Mid-Autumn Festival offers moon cakes, music, 
and magic to more than 1500 visitors, thanks to support from McElhanney 
Consulting Services, Ltd.
Date: 	Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:25:48 -0700

*_For Immediate Release_*

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*Barkerville’s Mid-Autumn Festival offers moon cakes, music, and magic 
to more than 1500 visitors, thanks to support from McElhanney Consulting 
Services, Ltd. *

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*August 29, 2012 (Barkerville, BC)*– More than 1500 visitors flocked to 
Barkerville, British Columbia’s annual Mid-Autumn Moon Festival last 
weekend, eager to help the National Historic Site of Canada celebrate 
its Chinese pioneers… and to sample the Festival’s traditional offering 
of tasty red-bean moon cakes, Chinese musical performances, magic shows, 
dance, and other cultural exhibitions.

This year’s Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, a part of Barkerville’s 150^th 
anniversary season of special events, was made possible by a gift from 
Community Sponsor, McElhanney Consulting Services, Ltd.

McElhanney Consulting Services, founded in 1910 by British Columbia land 
surveyor William G. McElhanney, is a now a major Canadian company 
specializing in engineering, surveying and mapping in the fields of 
transportation, structures, land development, drainage, water supply and 
treatment, sewage treatment and disposal, resource development and land 
administration. McElhanney‘s goal is to provide personalized services 
tailored to local needs and supported by a multi-disciplinary team of 
specialists and professionals, and the consulting company has completed 
projects throughout Canada and in over 70 other countries for 
government, the private sector and international financial institutions.

The funds donated by McElhanney went directly to the purchase of 
materials and supplies required to host the special event weekend, 
including moon cakes, lantern making supplies, prizes, and fireworks.

“McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. once again is proud to be a part of 
the Barkerville Mid-Autumn Moon Festival,” said Bill Cheung, Branch 
Manager at McElhanney Consulting & Services Ltd. “With McElhanney’s own 
involvement in the history of British Columbia over the past 100 years, 
we enjoy the opportunity to look back at our past and appreciate the 
difficulties and challenges that our early settlers and First Nations 
had to contend with in this part of the world.

“McElhanney also congratulates the Chinese community which played such a 
primary role in the history of Barkerville and BC.  During Barkerville’s 
150 year anniversary, this is a great time to celebrate the happy 
occasion of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival.”

This is McElhanney’s second gift to Barkerville and their second 
sponsorship of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Their inaugural gift was in 
2011.  In addition to McElhanney’s Community Sponsorship, the Community 
Support of both Barkerville Gold Mines Limited and Quesnel’s Sandman 
Hotel helped to make Barkerville’s sesquicentennial Mid-Autumn  Moon 
Festival a rousing success.

For more information about the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, or any of 
Barkerville’s 150^th anniversary events, please visit please visit 
www.barkerville.ca/special_events.htm 
<http://www.barkerville.ca/special_events.htm>.

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*ABOUT BARKERVILLE HISTORIC TOWN*

Barkerville Historic Town is the largest historic site in Western North 
America (www.barkerville.ca).  Barkerville is provincially, nationally 
and internationally recognized for its historic significance associated 
with its place in western Canada’s gold rush era and the role the gold 
rush played in BC joining Canada. Barkerville is widely known as a “must 
see” for travel itineraries in western Canada.  The historic town is 
also a significant contributor to the Cariboo regional economy and is 
widely regarded as a unique component of the regional identity.

The Barkerville Heritage Trust, as Barkerville’s operating and managing 
partner, works in conjunction with the Province of British Columbia, the 
owner and statutory guardian of Barkerville’s heritage resources, to 
ensure that Barkerville is efficiently managed, entertaining and 
educational to visitors, and financially stable as the premier heritage 
resource and tourism attraction for the Cariboo. The ultimate aim is to 
maintain and enhance Barkerville’s position as a nationally significant 
heritage resource and tourism attraction for British Columbia and Canada.

Barkerville is situated 80 km east of Quesnel, British Columbia in the 
foothills of the Cariboo Mountains, close to Troll Mountain Ski Resort 
and Bowron Lake Provincial Park. The nearby community of Wells (8 km 
from Barkerville) is the service and housing centre for the area 
(www.wellsbc.com) and is itself a dynamic cultural community, home of 
Island Mountain Arts, the acclaimed Toni Onley Artists’ Project, the 
International Celtic Harp School (www.imarts.com), the dynamic indie 
music festival ArtsWells (www.artswells.com), and the Sunset Theatre 
(www.sunset-theatre.com). Wells is also situated close to a wide variety 
of winter and summer outdoor activities.

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*MEDIA INQUIRIES*

James Douglas | Manager, Visitor Experiences

B  A  R  K  E  R  V  I  L  L  E     H  I  S  T  O  R   I  C     T  O  W  N

Box 19 | Barkerville, BC | V0K 1B0

250-994-3302 ext. 41 | 888-994-3332 toll free | 250-994-3435 fax

james.douglas at barkerville.ca

www.barkerville.ca <http://www.barkerville.ca/>

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