Golden
Golden was once the loading point for Upper Columbia sternwheelers. Completion of the C.P.R. in 1886 heralded the steamboat era when colourful little craft like the 'Duchess' freighted to...
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Ashcroft Manor
In 1862 C.F. and H.P. Cornwall settled here and developed Ashcroft Manor. The ranch with its grist and saw mills supplied Cariboo miners. The manor house was destroyed by fire in 1943, but the...
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Steamboat Saga
Smooth rivers and great lakes once were the highways of travel. On them plied stately paddle- wheelers, helping exploration and settlement of the Interior. They speeded goldseekers bound for the...
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Irving House
Arriving in British Columbia from the United States in 1859, Scottish-born Capt. William Irving pioneered the riverboat trade of the lower Fraser River. In 1862-64, Royal Engineers built his...
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Kootenay River Lumber Mills
From BC's Stops of Interest
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Ginger Goodwin
From BC's Stops of Interest
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Canadian Northern Pacific's Last Spike
Canada's third trans-continental rail link was completed near Basque on January 23, 1915. In a simple ceremony the last spike was driven, witnessed by a small group of engineers and workmen. The...
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Thompson Canyon
Water, cutting deeply into the pre-glacial floor of this valley over countless centuries, has gradually eroded the almost vertical dykes of the mountain of solid rock. The awesome display of crags...
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Natal, Michel and Middletown (1898-1976)
From BC's Stops of Interest
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Golden Sikhs
The first Sikhs arrived in Golden in 1902 to work in the mill of the Columbia River Lumber Company. Their Gurdwara (temple), one of the earliest in BC, became a focus of cultural identity...
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Passage by Sail
On July 13, 1792, the sloop 'Discovery' commanded by Captain George Vancouver, R.N., skirted Cape Mudge and entered the narrow, tide-ripped channels leading northward to the open Pacific....
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Fernie Coal
From BC's Stops of Interest
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Incredible Forests
Spars cut for Capt. Cook's ships in 1778; logs skidded by oxen in 1860; whistles blown on 'steam- pots' and 'locies' in 1900; countless products made by complex machines; all recall the...
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Seymour Narrows
Treacherous currents, swirling eddies, and turbulent tide-rips still harass vessels despite the blasting away in 1958 of the twin peaks of Ripple Rock. Charted in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver,...
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Canal Flat
In 1808 David Thompson named this flat 'McGillivary's Portage' as he crossed from Columbia Lake to the Kootenay River. In 1889 W.A. Baillie-Grohman joined the two waterways by a canal with a...
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Ohlone at Ardenwood
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River of the West (Sign missing)
For 1200 miles, in two countries, the Columbia carves its way to the Pacific Ocean. Named after Robert Gray's ship the 'Columbia', it was first mapped in 1811 by David Thompson. This 'highway' for...
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A Dream Fulfilled
It was the dream, in the 1880's of W.A. Baillie- Grohman, British sportsman and financier to reclaim these fertile flats from the annual river floods. His canal at Canal flats diverted part of the...
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Sumas Lake Reclamation
In 1924, by a system of stream diversions, dams, dykes, canals and pumps, 33,000 acres of fertile land were reclaimed from Sumas Lake. Few areas in B.C. have such rich soil with transportation...
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Railway Surveyor (Sign missing)
In 1871, Walter Moberly, in charge of surveys for the mountain division of the projected Canadian trans-continental railway, built log cabins east of here for survey party "S". The...
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