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Historic Ashcroft
 
Ashcroft was given the breath-of-life when the Canadian Pacific Railway was finally pushed through to the far limits of 'the west' in 1885.
 

 
The town was 'born in a hurry' amid what seemed providential circumstances, for its setting was in the right place at the right time -- at the most northerly point of the railway before it swung east, and close to the lifeline to the interior, the Cariboo Wagon Road. In the midst of a quiet grainfield, in a bend in the Thompson River, Ashcroft burgeoned quickly into the 'Gateway to the Cariboo', supplanting the town of Yale, which had claimed this distinction over 20 prosperous years.

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The Village of Ashcroft contact information
 
P.O. Box 129
Ashcroft B.C. V0K 1A0
Ph: (250) 453-9161
Fax: (250) 453-9664
Email: admin@village.ashcroft.bc.ca