Exile: Vanishing Slocan City
Slocan, developed in the 1890’s mining rush, is only about 1/2 hour from New Denver or 8 1/2 hours east of Vancouver, BC. It sits at the entry to Valhalla Provincial Park. […]
Category Archives: Ghost Towns
Silvery Sandon
Sandon is located in the interior of British Columbia in the Selkirk mountain range, in an area known as ‘The Valley of the Ghosts’. It lies an hour from Kaslo, […]
Internment: Greenwood, BC
Greenwood, British Columbia is known as Canada‘s smallest city. Given its status in the late 1800’s during a gold rush boom, though the population decreased to a current total of […]
The O’Keefe Ranch
Located just outside Vernon, the O’Keefe Historic Ranch has graced this land for a very long time – before Canada was even formed as a country. The future of the […]
3 Valley Gap
Located along the Trans Canada Highway, 23 km SW of Revelstoke, 3 Valley Gap is a place I have passed by (nearly) a thousand times – without stopping in. I […]
Howe Sound to Britannia Beach
Howe Sound, in my opinion, is one of the most incredibly beautiful places on the planet. As a subject, it has been painted, photographed and sketched countless times, and has […]
Boston Bar
Now, if anywhere has seen better days, it is Boston Bar in the Fraser Canyon. At one time a popular gold rush stop, the town now looks all but abandoned, […]
Breaking in Wells
We were ready now to make the 9 hour drive home – but not without a few stops. The route to and from the famous gold rush town is littered […]
Hurdy Gurdy Girls
In 1858, word of a big gold strike in the British colony hit San Francisco. Ten percent of the population of California would eventually head north hoping to fulfil their […]
Inside Barkerville
Many different types of people made it to Barkerville. It wasn’t just the miners. Eventually their loved ones came as well. Wives and children, siblings and sometimes even parents would […]
Barkerville: History and New Gold
Barkerville started out like every other gold rush town – a ramshackle selection of tents and thrown together, bow over cabins. As more people struck gold in the area and […]
Exploring Barkerville
As soon as we pulled into the Barkerville parking lot, we knew it was going to be a good tour…the General Lee was there to greet us…yeehaw! Now there are […]
Up to Wells
There is a lot to look at on the road to Barkerville. Not just abandoned, derelict homesteads, farms and gold rush businesses, but the natural landscape as well. In Northern […]
Wild West – Serial Killers
Murderess Agnes McVee It should come as no surprise to you that the gold rush trails are full of tales (true and legend), involving gold, greed and murder. There are […]
Ashcroft and the 108 Mile Ranch
We still had 5 1/2 hours or so to go from Ashcroft to Barkerville, but we were hungry and it was getting late. We decided to dine in one of […]
The Road to Barkerville
I always knew I was fond of all things abandoned – old isolated farm houses were the most popular playgrounds of my childhood. I didn’t know then (or even until […]
