Barkerville Schoolhouse

Barkerville Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located in Barkerville, British Columbia. Built during the Gold Rush era in the 1860s, it served as an educational hub for children in a developing frontier community. The school features period-appropriate furnishings and exhibits that illustrate early Canadian frontier education. Today, it functions as a museum and interpretive site, offering visitors insight into 19th-century schooling and daily life in a gold rush town. The schoolhouse is preserved to showcase the importance of education in shaping community development during that historical period.