Quesnel Lake

QUESNEL LAKE, 264 sq km, northeast of WILLIAMS LAKE, is the largest lake in the CARIBOO. Extending 100 km end to end with a 49-km-long North Arm reaching up into Cariboo Mountains Provincial Park between BOWRON LAKE and WELLS GRAY provincial PARKS, it drains northwest via the Quesnel R to the FRASER R at QUESNEL. It is the deepest lake in BC (530 m) and the second-deepest in Canada after Great Slave Lk. Placer mining for GOLD began in 1859 as part of the Cariboo GOLD RUSH and continued for many...

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