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When the Cariboo Road proper was built, it converged with the existing route of the Old Cariboo Road at [[Clinton, British Columbia|Clinton]], and followed the earlier road to Alexandria, but was extended up the Fraser from there to Quesnel (thereby eliminating the need for steamer travel on that stretch of the upper Fraser) and completed eastward from there to [[Barkerville, British Columbia|Barkerville]].
It was along this route that an attempt was made to use [[Bactrian Camel|Bactrian camels]] purchased from the [[U.S. Camel Corps]] for freight, and also a tractor-style [[Thomson Road Steamer]] known as a "road train", one of the earliest motorized vehicles.
{{Main|Cariboo camels}}
==References and further reading==
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