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Category Archives: Ghost Towns

Exile: Vanishing Slocan City

July 12, 2013by Ana Ela 2 Comments

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. […]

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Ghost Towns, Interior, Road Trip, WWII

Silvery Sandon

July 9, 2013by Ana Ela 9 Comments

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, […]

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Ghost Towns, Interior, Nature, Road Trip, WWII

Internment: Greenwood, BC

July 5, 2013by Ana Ela 13 Comments

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 […]

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Ghost Towns, Gold Rush, Interior, Road Trip, WWII

The O’Keefe Ranch

June 21, 2013by Ana Ela 4 Comments

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 […]

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Ghost Towns, History, Interior, Nature, Road Trip

3 Valley Gap

June 17, 2013by Ana Ela 8 Comments

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 […]

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Ghost Towns, Gold Rush, Interior, Mountains, Road Trip

Howe Sound to Britannia Beach

May 6, 2013by Ana Ela 3 Comments

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 […]

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Abandoned Architecture, BC, Ghost Towns, History, Ocean, Road Trip

Boston Bar

April 15, 2013by Ana Ela 24 Comments

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, […]

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Abandoned Architecture, BC, Cemeteries, Ghost Towns, Gold Rush, Interior, Road Trip

Breaking in Wells

March 22, 2013by Ana Ela 7 Comments

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 […]

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BC, Ghost Towns, Gold Rush, Interior, Personal Blather, Road Trip

Hurdy Gurdy Girls

March 20, 2013by Ana Ela 2 Comments

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 […]

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BC, Ghost Towns, Gold Rush, Interior, Road Trip

Inside Barkerville

March 15, 2013by Ana Ela 6 Comments

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 […]

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BC, Ghost Towns, Gold Rush, Interior, Road Trip

Barkerville: History and New Gold

March 14, 2013by Ana Ela 6 Comments

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 […]

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BC, Ghost Towns, Gold Rush, Interior

Exploring Barkerville

March 12, 2013by Ana Ela 15 Comments

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 […]

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BC, Ghost Towns, Gold Rush, Interior, Road Trip

Up to Wells

March 11, 2013by Ana Ela 3 Comments

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 […]

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BC, Ghost Towns, History, Interior, Nature, Road Trip

Wild West – Serial Killers

March 7, 2013by Ana Ela 12 Comments

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 […]

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BC, Ghost Towns, Gold Rush, Interior

Ashcroft and the 108 Mile Ranch

March 6, 2013by Ana Ela 1 Comment

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 […]

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BC, Ghost Towns, Gold Rush, Interior, Road Trip

The Road to Barkerville

March 5, 2013by Ana Ela 9 Comments

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 […]

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Abandoned Architecture, Churches & Cathedrals, Ghost Towns, Gold Rush, Interior, Nature, Road Trip

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