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. […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]