Good Morning! Here is a quick shot of what we arrived to this morning in BC’s Gold Rush Town – 2 degrees Celsius, 10 centimeters of snow, and still falling! Looks like this winter may be as hearty as the last: we had a total of 29 feet of accumulated snowfall, requiring 465 dump truck loads of removal in order to open the park gates on schedule for May 11th. Wow! We do like extremes up here….
December 1, 2020 (Barkerville, BC) – For more than 60 years Barkerville Historic Town & Park has been sharing history and common humanity with its visitors to through live, interactive storytelling that is compassionate, personal, and compelling. With the resurgence of a COVID-19 risk in Canada, the National Historic Site’s planned on-site winter interpretive programs […]
September 30, 2020 (Barkerville, BC) – Barkerville Historic Town & Park is pleased to announce the re-launch of a ground-breaking Virtual Field Trip program that will again provide classrooms from across the province a unique opportunity to connect with Barkerville’s award-winning educators and historical interpreters… live and in real-time. For more than 60 years, the […]
We are deeply sorry for any hurt and confusion our recent newspaper advertisement has caused. We see now that our choice of words could be interpreted as Barkerville making light of one of the darkest chapters in the history of the indigenous peoples of British Columbia. This was not our intention – in fact quite […]
