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    How the Bank of British North America Came to Fort George

    Sep 15, 2022 3 minutes

    It was April 5, 1910. Three men left Ashcroft at 5:00 a.m. in a four-wheeled, uncovered, buckboard-style wagon pulled by two horses. They followed the Cariboo Road, originally used by prospectors headed to the gold fields, to Quesnel. Hidden under their seat was a gunny sack containing $50,000 of currency [approximately $1.3 million in 2022] that was to be used to open the first bank in Fort George, an isolated community about 275 miles [443 kilometres] north of Ashcroft.

    One of the reasons to bring a bank to remote Fort George was that the Grand Trunk Pacific

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