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British Columbia Tourism Region : Cariboo Chilcotin Coast
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Rider
- Holmes River - After A.W. Holmes, provincial forest ranger, who died in the 1920s.
- McBride - Began as one of the stations of the newly constructed Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (now part of the CNR).
- Named after Sir Richard McBride (1870-1917), who in 1903, at the age of thirty-three, became the youngest premier in the history of British Columbia.
- Knighted in 1912, McBride resigned as premier in 1915 and became the province's agent-general in London, where he died two years later. 'Dicky' McBride was a courtly, warm, outgoing person full of energy and ambitions for his province.
- Rider - This CNR station was named after Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925), a popular novelist who travelled along this line in 1916 when it was the old GTPR. Note also MOUNT RIDER and HAGGARD GLACIER in this area.
- With permission from G.P.V and Helen B. Akrigg 1997 British Columbia Place Names. UBC Press.
Address of this page: http://bc.ruralroutes.com/McBride