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Author : Garnet Basque
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1895811821
Annotation The lost communities that stretch from the Okanagan to West Kootenay come to life with 150 photographs, a dozen maps, and entertaining text.
Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1894974735
Many of BC's old mining towns are now abandoned ruins, disappearing into the wilderness. These once-thriving towns and the pioneers who built them are remembered in 10 fascinating stories of hard work and heroism. A mine rescue worker sadly recounts a tale of death underground at Coal Creek. Three eccentric old bachelors become the final residents of Phoenix, Canada's highest ghost town. Legends of Spanish treasure near a Vancouver Island gold-rush town persist to this day. Experience BC's colorful past in these entertaining stories from the province's vanished communities.
Author : Thomas W. Paterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:640077823
Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926936192
Many of BC's old mining towns are now abandoned ruins, disappearing into the wilderness. These once-thriving towns and the pioneers who built them are remembered in 10 fascinating stories of hard work and heroism. A mine rescue worker sadly recounts a tale of death underground at Coal Creek. Three eccentric old bachelors become the final residents of Phoenix. Legends of Spanish treasure near a Vancouver Island gold-rush town persist to this day. Experience BC's colourful past in these entertaining stories from the province's vanished communities.
Author : Cy Martin,Cynthia Jean Martin Keezer
Publisher : Corona del Mar, Calif. : Trans-Anglo Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UCSD:31822031034226
Author : F. Sneed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1492340782
A guide to the ghost towns and mining camp of Las Animas County. With photographs and maps.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780760343166
Ghost Towns of the Pacific Northwest is a guidebook to the best boomtowns of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Once thriving centers for mining, fishing, logging, and national defense, these abandoned camps and pioneer villages still ring with history. Ghost town expert Philip Varney equips you with everything you need to know to explore these remnants of the past. Featuring color maps, driving and walking directions, town histories, touring recommendations, and stunning color photography, Ghost Towns of the Pacific Northwest details famous sites such as Port Gamble (Washington), Fort Steele (British Columbia), and Jacksonville (Oregon) — in addition to out-of-the-way gems like Holden (Washington), Sandon (British Columbia), and Flora (Oregon). See the region as you have never seen it before with this essential guidebook to the glory days of the Pacific Northwest!
Author : John Sandlos,Arn Keeling
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781459413535
Mining has had a significant presence in every part of Canada — from the east to west coasts to the far north. This book tells the stories of those who built Canada’s mining industry. It highlights the experiences of the people who lived and worked in mining towns across the country, the rise of major mining companies, and the emergence of Toronto and Vancouver as centres of global mining finance. It also addresses the devastating effects mining has had on Indigenous communities and their land and documents several high-profile resistance efforts. Mining Country presents fascinating snapshots of Canadian mining past and present, from pre-contact Indigenous copper mining and trading networks to the famous Cariboo and Klondike Gold Rushes. Generously illustrated with more than 150 visuals drawn from every period of mining history, this book offers a thorough account of the story behind the industry.
Author : Fred Thirkell,Bob Scullion
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1894974638
Award-winning popular historians Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion have assembled an all-new collection of postcard views capturing different communities around British Columbia as they appeared at the turn of the 20th century. Collectively defining the state of affairs in BC a century ago, each one of these images has a story to tell. Once a thriving cannery town, Port Essington is now long gone, abandoned and then destroyed by forest fires. They may have mined millions of dollars in gold at Stout's Gulch, but you'll have trouble finding it on any maps today. Even Kelowna's main street is unrecognizable. With each passing year, it becomes more difficult to find rare and unusual black-and-white printed postcards from this period. Many of the ones Thirkell and Scullion have included in "Greetings from British Columbia" are themselves rare, borrowed from the collection of a pre-eminent postcard dealer without whose cooperation this new collection would not have been possible.
Author : Dan Langford
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781897522677
With over 15,000 copies sold, Cycling the Kettle Valley has proven to be a remarkable resource for anyone interested in the stunning abandoned railbed located in the southern interior of British Columbia. One of the premier rail trails in North America, it contains spectacular sections through impressive canyons requiring tunnels and trestles to carry the railbed through rock ridges and across mountain streams. Growing public interest in conservation of the railbed and its structures, along with government support, has resulted in many improvements in both access and safety. The Kettle Valley Railway and its many connectors offer the cyclist everything from easy day-riding to multi-day adventures through the magnificent scenery of southern British Columbia between Midway and Hope. This world-renowned guidebook includes detailed maps, safety tips, historic information, a listing of accommodations and a kilometre by kilometre guide to each of the Kettle Valley Railway subdivisions.
Author : Glen A. Mofford
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772034240
A fully illustrated social history profiling forty historic hotels spread over five regions of the southern interior of British Columbia, covering the time period of the 1890s to 1950s. Room at the Inn reveals the long-forgotten histories of British Columbia’s early hospitality industry, through the riveting stories of the men and women who built, ran, and frequented hotels, hostelries, resorts, and roadhouses in the southern Interior. From the Similkameen town of Keremeos to Spences Bridge at the confluence of the Thompson and Nicola Rivers, east to the Alberta border along the Trans-Canada Highway, and south to the Canada–US border, the history of these hotels mirrors the history of BC’s mining towns and boom-bust economy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as waves of prospectors, settlers, and eventually tourists shaped the culture of the province that we know today. Of the forty historic hotels profiled in this book, all contributed to their communities in various ways. They provided more than just a roof over the heads of weary travellers; they were often the sites of live entertainment, places where community members could meet and socialize. Some even doubled as makeshift hospitals during wildfires and floods. Through colourful anecdotes, meticulous research, and fascinating archival photography, Room at the Inn transports readers to a bygone era and pays tribute to the pioneers, entrepreneurs, and hard-work men and women who built and operated these historic accommodations.
Author : Beth Sagstetter,Bill Sagstetter
Publisher : Benchmark Publishing (Company)
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89066258898
A guide to appreciating and understanding the history of abandoned mining camps shows how to use the techniques of an historical sleuth to identify and interpret what one sees at a ghost town.
Author : Muriel Sibell Wolle
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789120516
THIS is the story of the men who sought for gold, from California to the eastern rim of the Rocky Mountains. Mrs. Wolle writes colorfully of the unbelievable privations the men endured in penetrating the fastnesses of the high Sierra and the Rockies and in crossing the desert wastes of Arizona, Utah and Nevada; of the mines first discovered in New Mexico by Coronado and his men four centuries ago; and the first great rush that hit California in 1849. She follows the miners who poured in successive waves into the golden gulches of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, climbed to the deeper mines high in the mountains of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, and dared at last to penetrate the Indian-infested Black Hills of South Dakota. It is doubtful if the vividness of this phase of history will ever fade for American readers. In personally following the trails of the pioneering prospectors, Mrs. Wolle finds her excitement continually renewed, as she stumbles upon mute evidence of past bloodshed, lust and struggle. It is this excitement which she conveys to her readers both in the text and in the more than one hundred on-the-spot drawings which show the towns and town sites with the eye of the nostalgic lover of this picturesque and courageous part of our national heritage. A guide book for the adventurous, THE BONANZA TRAIL will be attractive alike to travelers, American history enthusiasts and collectors of Americana. Nor will its pages soon be forgotten by the general reader. “THE BONANZA TRAIL is the fascinating and definitive book on the ghost and near-ghost towns of the Old West for which so many students and amateurs of Western Americana have been waiting. Like the once booming camps and diggings which are its subject, it is a repository of the wonderments, glories and pathos of pioneer times and romantic bonanzas....A book that, to the informed intelligence, is almost impossible to put down.”—LUCIUS BEEBE, The Territorial Enterprise
Author : Bob Sterne
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Coalmont (B.C.)
ISBN : 9780986676918
Author : Fred Thirkell,Bob Scullion
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1894384504
In an era when picture postcards became a unique new way to "call home," they quickly established a role in enticing an ongoing parade of tourists to British Columbia. This book features an impressive collection of black-and-white lithograph images that were sold to the public in the early twentieth century. Documenting life in British Columbia during this period of time, each image has a story to tell. Collectively they define the state of affairs in B.C. a century ago. The book is divided into geographic regions, with an introductory article and map for each. Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion's previous book of postcard images, Postcards From the Past (1996), won a City of Vancouver Heritage Award.