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GOLD FEVER strikes everyone
“who visits the gold rush country of
south-central British Columbia and
there’s only one cure — finding the
yellow stuff.

There’s stilt plenty around. It’s
in the ground, where you can pan
it ounce by ounce.

The gold-rush fever of the 1860s
produced instant millionaires and
colorful towns in the province's
Cariboo-Chilcotin region.

Gold Fever was as large and
epidemic in British Columbia as in
California and Alaska, bringing
miners and settlers from North
America, Europe and Asia..

One of their settlements was
Barkerville —- 300 miles northeast

of Vancouver.

Now restored to its original
form, the town doesn’t just
recreate the past. The lifestyles and
fun of the 1860s in its 100
reconstructed buildings are every-
day life.

Barkerville is a special place in
which — for as long as you stay —
you’re transported back in time.
But it’s also a place where the past
and the present merge.

The ‘town is now a provincial
park. The drive from Quesnel, east
to Barkerville is along a well-
travelled paved highway that’s also
the entranceway into the Bowron
Lakes.

Once you’re in Barkerville and
you’ve parked your car or camper
outside the town, you walk into a

dirt-street, wooden-sidewalked liv-
ing museum.

The town’s saloon features a
long stand-up bar complete with a
magnificent brass foot railing.
Children love the rootbeer saloon.

You can get a shave and haircut,
enjoy a lunch, take a stagecoach
ride or pan for gold in the same
Streams that once brought in pros-
pectors from around the world.

But Barkerville doesn’t stand
alone as 2 gold-rush town that can
be enjoyed today. Throughout the
central interior of British Colum-
bia are towns that grew from the
criginal gold-rush fever and where
each celebrates those golden glory
days.

In Liltooet, Mile One of the

Discover thrill of Edinburgh Tattoo

WITH THE sound of the pipes
echoing off the walls and the hills,
the marching and countermarching
of the kilted highland regiments
beneath the ramparis of the cast'e,
the Edinburgh Military Tattoo is
an event to stir the heart of even
the most dour non-Scot.

There are few who are not mov-
ed by the massed pipe and drum
bands or by the solitary piper at
the end of the evening alone atop
the battlements of the ancient cas-
tle.

Even idiots

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ting with a two showing and I pass
to let her hit, she never misses.
Nines appear like magic.

And then, there’s roulette.

If ever a mindless game was
built with idiots in mind, roulette
is it. This mindless idiot hates the
game BUT. I can’t seem to lose. I
play only in desperation, or when
Brian looks at my dwindling stack
of chips and points three quick
jabs at the ‘‘ugly R.”

I have the perfect system. I let
my guardian angels take over, put
my intelligence on ‘hold’? and
scatter hunch-bets where they lead
me. It’s alinost psychic — I’ve
been known to accidentally drop a

CAD. AT PAR!
DISCOUNTS

The Tattoo is the best known
event of the month-long, wor!d-
famous Edinburgh Festival which
brings together theatre, dance and
music from all corners of the globe
each August.

This year, The Fraser Connec-
tion, a local tour company which.
specializes in Scotland and the
Celtic world, is offering a special
two-week journey for s:inall
groups, which will visit the Tattoo
after two weeks of wandering
through the highlands and the Isle

can play 21

chip on a number, leave it there,
and PAYDAY.

One night Brian was playing
**21.”? I was doing my usual game
of ‘*22” until I had $10 left. I
spotted a lonely roulette table, not
a soul playing and the croupier
checking his money for dust.

About a half-hour later, I had
enough chips in front of me to
relieve the day’s burden. Then
came the ‘relief?’ croupier. He
looked at my stack and asked, ‘‘Is
she playing a ‘system’?’’

“*Hell, no,’’ whispered the first
croupier. ‘I’ve never seen such a
mindless idiot in my life."

Two peopie can easily spend a
week in Reno at under $500 each.
Providing they don’t play ‘‘22.’’

ROSEWAY TRAVEL

& ROYAL CRUISE LINES

invite you to a GALA
GROISE NIGHT featuring
Mexican Riviera,
Pacific Hawaiian
& Panama cruises

of Skye.

In addition to the tour through
the special Tattoo and the
highlands tour, the Fraser Connec-
tion is also offering a unique
September journey through the
Celtic Kingdoms, a two-week od-
yssey through the romantic coun-
tryside and cities of the Republic
of Ireland as well as the rugged
beauty of Scotland. .

This tour features medieval
banquets, ceilidhs, excur-
sions, ard theatre outings along
with the outstanding beauty of the
two lands.

All tours leave from Vancouver
and seniors are entitled to a special
discount. -

For further information write
Andy Fraser at The Fraser Con-
nection, Box 1114, 1124 Lonsdale
Ave., North Van., B.C. V7M 2HI,
or telephone 980-3227.

original Cariboo gold-rush trail on
the way to Barkervilie, they hold
camel races because camels were
once used to pack supplies.

The Wiiliams Lake Stampede in
iate June is the largest rodeo next
to the world-famous Calgary
Stampede. In Quesnel, Billy
Barker Days feature goid panning,
gold prizes and river raft races.

As an added bonus, the region
has some of the finest fishing lakes
and resorts on the continent.

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