You're looking in the wrong place." That's what Billy Barker's fellow miners told him as he sank a shaft fifty-two feet into ground everyone else had already given up on. On August 17, 1862, he struck the richest lead of the Cariboo Gold Rush — and built a town that, within three years, was being called the largest city west of the Rockies and north of San Francisco. But the real story starts three years earlier, with a Free Miner's Certificate issued in a town this show already knows well: Lillooet. This episode opens a new stretch of Canuckly in the Cariboo Land District, tracing the road, the judge, and the fortune that connects two of British Columbia's most legendary boomtowns.

🎙️ Canuckly Episode 20 — "You're Looking in the Wrong Place"

• Cold Open — The Shaft Nobody Else Would Dig
• The Land This Season Moves Into Now
• A Canal Worker's Bad Luck
• A Free Miner's Certificate, Issued in Lillooet
• Digging Where Nobody Else Would
• A City Grows Around One Hole in the Ground
• The Same Judge, a New Town
• Half the Town, Built by Migrants from Guangdong
• Ninety Minutes (The 1868 Fire)
• A Fortune That Didn't Stay
• The Road That Made All of This Possible
• From Boomtown to Preserved Town
• What's Actually There to See Today
• A Direct Answer to a Question From Last Season

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