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Why was the caribou road built?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Cariboo road was built for workers to have easy access to the CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway). It was very dangerous for workers to ride along in oxen-powered carts. Many lives were lost in the raging Fraser River. A lot of the white workers were racist to the Chinese workers (Navvies) and were always more worried about the oxen being lost, not the Navvies.

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13y ago

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