Gustavus Blin Wright, the most famous of all the road builders of the colonial days, built the forty-seven miles (319 kilometres) from Lillooet over the Pavilion Mountains to Fort Alexandria.

B-00667 Gustavus Blinn Wright (1830-1898) Road contractor between Lillooet and Soda Creek

On August 16, 1862, the formal contract was made with Wright covering the construction of the wagon road from Lillooet to Alexandria. By July 1863, this section was completed to Soda Creek

The first nine miles between Cook's Ferry and Clinton on the Lillooet-Alexandria road were built by the Royal Engineers under Lieutenant Palmer.

BC ARCHIVES E-03336 Lillooet c.1870

The roads by way of Harrison-Lillooet and by Yale were built partially by the Royal Engineers and paid for by the Government of the Colony.

At the end of his section of road at Fort Alexandria, Gustavus Wright built a steamboat to ferry passengers and supplies up the Fraser River to Quesnel.