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Alexandria
1895 Directory


 This Directory was transcribed by Wanda Story. The original source for this information was the 1895 Williams Directory of BC.


In the Dominion Electoral District of Cariboo-Lillooet, and Provincial of Cariboo.   Post office on the Cariboo wagon road 85 miles from Quesnelle, mails once a week, nearest railway station, Ashcroft on the C.P.R., distance 185 miles. Telegraph and express office, Soda Creek, distance 18 miles. Banking town, Kamloops, 220 miles. Steamboat landing on the Fraser river, distance 1 mile.  It is reached by stage from Ashcroft, fare $33,  also by Fraser river steamers.  Farming and stock raising form the principal industries.

Adams, William - farmer and stock raiser and M.P.P. (Morrison & Adams)
Anders, William J. - hotel keeper
Ah Yot & Co - gold mining
Barrow, Thomas - labourer
Blair, Joseph - carpenter
Bobanon, Samuel H. - farmer and butcher
Bouchie, Cassimer - labourer
Bouchie, Charles - labourer
Clink, Alex - watchman
Crawford, Henry - farmer
Cariboo Cattle Co. - Alex P. McInnes and John J. McInnes, props
Cusson & Desormeault - farmers
Cusson, Lewis - of Cusson & Desormeault
Deschamps, Antonie - labourer
Desormeault, Peter - of Cusson & Desormeault
Doubriel, Isaac - labourer and herder
Downs & Olsten - farmers
Downs, Stephen - of Downs and Olsten
Ewing, William - labourer
Foyle, Charles J. - harness maker
Hodson, John - farmer
Lucas, Alonzo - carpenter
Mackin, Jno - farmer (Mackin & M)
Maders, William - herder
Marion, Telesphure - labourer
McArthur, Alex - labourer
McCornish, Matthew - labourer
McDonald, D.W. - carpenter
McInnes, Alex D. - J.P., postmaster, hotel keeper
McInnes, Alex P. - farmer and stock raiser
McLean, Robert - farmer
McLean, Jno - farmer
Middleton, Robert - farmer
Moffatt, Henry - farmer
Moffitt, Charles - farmer
Moffit, John - farmer
Moffitt, William - farmer
Morrison & Adams - farmers
Ore, Robert - labourer
Pickard, George - farmer
Twan, John - trapper
Webster, Williams - in firm of Morrison & Adams


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Posted 5 February 1999