Arrived in Quesnel – The Goldpan City

We arrived here today and will overnight in the Wal-Mart parking lot where we saw the most beautiful sunset.
Quesnel is at the confluence of the Fraser and Quesnel Rivers and is a city of bridges, flowers and logging trucks. Agriculture, mining, forestry and tourism are important drivers of a diverse economy. The main industry is Forestry with 2 pulp mills, plywood plant, lumber mills and many secondary manufacturers.
Forestry employs over 2200 families and this town has the largest concentration of wood product enterprises in all of North America.
Quesnel is named The Goldpan City because it was here that all the fortune seekers turned east to Barkerville when gold was discovered in the 1800’s.