All that glitters is not gold.

There were many faces of the booming Barkerville gold rush era. Billy Barker’s legendary gold strike on Williams Creek triggered a multi-billion dollar industrial revolution that literally built a province. Today, the extraordinary historic town of Barkerville stands as a living testament to BC’s golden beginnings. Here are a few re-creations of what we know to be some of the weary and determined individuals that did, or may have, made up the community of gold miners, merchants, families and immigrants trying to get a piece of the motherlode.