Larenzo Latora, an Italian emigrant preempted land on the sub-irrigated flats above the Fraser River in 1858. He started a vineyard, and served wine in his roadhouse there in the 1860s, and provided the miners with raisins. His roadhouse is mentioned in Bishop Hills Diary of July 2,1862. Credit Anglican Church Archives, U.B.C.Campus, Vancouver, and B.C. Today the area of the Fountaine Ranch is a Native Reserve. From here the road continues east through the Marble Canyon to the Cariboo Road (Highway 97) at Hat Creek.
The Cariboo Road in the Fountain area (credit: Branwen C. Patenaude, Quesnel)
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on the roadhouse communities. Thanks to the Living Landscapes Project,
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and Women's Services for their support of site development.
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