Episode 410: In the final years of the Cariboo Gold Rush, between roughly 1875 and 1885, travellers moving along the Cariboo Wagon Road through British Columbia’s interior passed through a remote roadhouse known as the 108 Mile Hotel, about 108 miles from Lillooet on the route toward Barkerville. According to a long-told regional legend, the hotel was run by Agnus McVee, alongside her husband Jim McVee and her son-in-law Al Riley, who were accused of drugging, robbing, and murdering miners carrying gold through the region. The story claims that dozens of travellers disappeared after stopping at the inn, with some accounts later alleging that bodies were recovered from nearby lakes and that young women were held captive at the hotel.

Sources:

CARIBOO CALLING: The Legend of Agnus MacVee
The Cariboo Gold Rush Timeline
History - Gold Rush Trail - British Columbia Shaped by Nature
History and Timeline | Cariboo Gold Project
Agnus McVee – Habitual Runaway Tours
Sarah Leavitt's comic imagines the life of Agnes McVee | CBC Books
Agnus McVee | Wikipedia
Agnes, Murderess | Goodreads
108 Mile Heritage Site – Preserving the rich history of the Cariboo

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