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O'Keefe Ranch Christmas Special
The Okanagan's Very Own, CHBC
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Roberts on the Road - Pioneer Cowboys
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Roberts on the Road - Pioneer Cowboys
Kettle Valley Railway West
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Kettle Valley Railway West (#809): After more than 50 years of operation the railroad line was abandoned. While the rails no longer exist, the right-of-way is virtually intact with tunnels, bridges and trestles marking the historic route.
Kettle Valley Railway East
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Kettle Valley Railway East (#702): The Kettle Valley Railway (K.V.R.) tapped the resources of storied mining towns like Hedley, Carmi, Beaverdell and Copper Mountain, passing through scores of whistle stops, many of them with Shakespearean names like Romeo, Juliet, and Falstaff.
The Kettle Valley Railway
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - The Kettle Valley Railway (#21): One of the wonders of the Old West, under the sure hand of engineer Andrew McCulloch this unique railroad traversed some of the most difficult grades on the Pacific Slope. A branch line of the CPR, it outflanked the U.S. based Great Northern Railroad after a gargantuan struggle between the two companies.
Lost Golden Plate Ledge
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Lost Golden Plate Ledge (#22): Lost Golden Plate Ledge, located south of the Canadian-U.S. border near Grand Forks, B.C., was discovered by accident in the early 1900's. After leaving the area, it's founder was never able to relocate the mine.
Lost Gladstone Mine
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Lost Gladstone Mine (#901): Located somewhere near Christina Lake in southeastern British Columbia, the gold from this lost mine would be worth millions of dollars today.
Lost Slumach Mine
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Lost Slumach Mine (#505): One of the greatest treasure stories from Canada's Old West includes a murder, a hanging and a lost mine. Historian Bill Barlee, who researched this story for 20 years, believes the treasure is still there waiting to be rediscovered.
Sternwheelers of the Lower Fraser
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Sternwheelers of the Lower Fraser (#908): When gold was discovered in massive quantities in the Cariboo District in 1861, the stern wheelers leapt to the forefront along the Fraser River. The Canadian Pacific and Great Northern railways fought to control the waterways of British Columbia.
Sternwheelers of the West Kootenay
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Sternwheelers of the West Kootenay (#608): At one time dozens of stern wheelers plied the inland kales of the West Kootenay, and their captains were the lords of the lakes. Gracious vessels with names like Minto, Moyie, Nasookin, Kokanee, and International ruled the Kootenay, Slocan, and Arrow Lakes, stopping at every mining camp along the way.
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Prince George
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Prince George (#703): The history of the three Georges: Fort George, Prince George, and South Fort George, and how they all eventually became the town now called Prince George.
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Lytton
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Lytton (#402): Originally an Interior Salish Camp, this quiet place was changed forever in the 1850’s when thousands of men searching for gold streamed into the area.
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Yale
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Yale (#7): Once the metropolis of the Fraser River, at least two hundred miners lost their lives along the banks of this river in the rush to make their fortune around Yale.
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Bill Miner
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Bill Miner (#512): Billy Miner, the most notorious train robber in British Columbia history, was known as the "Hands Up" robber for using this infamous phrase on his victims.
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Rossland
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Rossland (#4): Rossland was the "Golden City" of British Columbia. From the depths of fabulous Red Mountain celebrated mines like the LeRoi, Centre Star, War Eagle, Sourdough Alley, to resplendent Columbia Avenue, there were few minings towns like it anywhere in B.C.
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - K & S Railway
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - K & S Railway
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Granite City
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Granite City
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Princeton
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Princeton
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Hedley
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Hedley
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Fort St. James
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Fort St. James
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Hudson's Bay Company
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Hudson's Bay Company
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Silverton
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Silverton
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Frank
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Frank
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Phoenix
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Phoenix
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Barkerville
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Barkerville
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Yukon 1896
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Yukon 1896
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Rock Creek
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Rock Creek
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Lightning Creek
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Lightning Creek
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Greenwood
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Greenwood
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Midway
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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns - Midway

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @aliensgotme
    @aliensgotme 3 дні тому

    Hard to see your pan colors if its cloudy 😊 sun definitely helps

  • @adriaannikken7519
    @adriaannikken7519 4 дні тому

    I grew up in Trail. I have heard stories of the ore body, and that there is lots of ore still there, but technology to work in that super heated water does not yet exist.

  • @nobodysdisciple
    @nobodysdisciple 5 днів тому

    Fascinating!

  • @robertsolomielke5134
    @robertsolomielke5134 6 днів тому

    Very Good ! The history is amazing , the men were somehow tougher , and today no one would attempt what they did as "normal" operations-TY for the glimpse back in time.

  • @LoganYeates-b8z
    @LoganYeates-b8z 9 днів тому

    I have been lucky to find some of the goldminer,s hiding,s that bill said had not been found bythe1990s and there is still so much out there that has not been found yet so don't think it,s all gone,not by a longshot.

  • @David-t4d7n
    @David-t4d7n 18 днів тому

    Great video.

  • @KenAustin-i4x
    @KenAustin-i4x 19 днів тому

    I've crawled all over this area on mountain bike and on foot, since about 1980. I started on bike in 1987. first guy mad enough ! it is always a magical place for me.

  • @rickzoethout3134
    @rickzoethout3134 22 дні тому

    Love all the episodes

  • @robertsolomielke5134
    @robertsolomielke5134 24 дні тому

    TY for these priceless history tales. I get that a lot of mineral wealth is still out there, but it involves a lot of hiking...

  • @robertsolomielke5134
    @robertsolomielke5134 25 днів тому

    Yep-TY to whoever posted these, I know some gold towns, but these guys go deep !

  • @albertafarmer8638
    @albertafarmer8638 Місяць тому

    18:25 This old hotel to the right still looks the same.

  • @jaaklucas1329
    @jaaklucas1329 Місяць тому

    Wow this is expert level analysis of the area and its mining history.

  • @vanlifethetravelinfranksho5611
    @vanlifethetravelinfranksho5611 Місяць тому

    My favourite place.❤

  • @colinmckenzie1373
    @colinmckenzie1373 2 місяці тому

    It's not the Pacific Northwest it's Pacific SOUTHWEST,depends which side of the border you're in.

  • @colinmckenzie1373
    @colinmckenzie1373 2 місяці тому

    Ducks is on the todays #1hwy.near todays Pritchard ,Duck Range mntns duck meadows south of Monte Lake.

  • @shawngale922
    @shawngale922 2 місяці тому

    I just discovered this series. I love it. This is on par if not better than contemporary historical documentaries.❤ I'd love to sit down with these two good old boys!

  • @Zman82
    @Zman82 3 місяці тому

    You know what's really sad is, in 2024 I don't know which is worse Canada or the United States.

  • @chrisbealey6478
    @chrisbealey6478 3 місяці тому

    Im pretty sure i watched every episode back in late 70s I actually have a couple books written by NL Barlee.

  • @jjkool48
    @jjkool48 3 місяці тому

    History channel is re-telling this story with Curse of Oak Island type story telling. I got more info here than that current show.

  • @johnmclaren7059
    @johnmclaren7059 3 місяці тому

    Iam still captivated each time when I watch these shows, as a young teenager in the 70’s my dad and I would watch every episode every Saturday! Now that I’ve taken up gold panning as a hobby, and reading books on the history of mining in BC I can only imagine how hard life was back in the gold rush hay day! Thank you for these priceless time capsules of BC history! Bill was a true story teller and is truly missed !

  • @judiklassen2793
    @judiklassen2793 4 місяці тому

    I vaguely recall travelling up the canyon as a 6 or 7 year old and being terrified of the cantilevered roadway perched over the roaring Fraser. This would have been during the mid 50’s or so. If Bill or Mike travelled it in 1956, then it must have been true. I always thought of it as part of a nightmare!

  • @jonasaurasrex
    @jonasaurasrex 4 місяці тому

    Good story! Miss that show . Mr.ballen just did an episode on this. Now Im scouring google earth . Found some interesting stuff. White creek, bedrock at the top,boxed in canyons and all. Fun stuff. Mike said it would be like this.

  • @Mascotal
    @Mascotal 4 місяці тому

    I met Mr. Barley at the celebrations in Hedley B.C. years ago.

  • @mark-dietz
    @mark-dietz 4 місяці тому

    I grew up in Penticton, and used to play on the SS Sicamous. It was just docked there for years and years, before the city fixed it up and turned it into a museum. I thinks it a restaurant now. Memories.

  • @markthomas3730
    @markthomas3730 4 місяці тому

    Bill should admonish the camerman behind him for filming his huge bald-spot

  • @degrootklyde6895
    @degrootklyde6895 5 місяців тому

    I remember watching this program on CBC back in the 80's while growing up in Golden BC . Living in Fernie BC now for nearly 30 years, I find so much value and cultural significands from programs like this .More - so as I grow older and continue to explore fascinating local history and appreciate the toll and turbulence of that era, craftsmanship and quality . I wish there was more of this content available on the internet these days.

  • @frankwood-sn5pu
    @frankwood-sn5pu 5 місяців тому

    B C Canada the great gold rush what a time to live in

  • @frankwood-sn5pu
    @frankwood-sn5pu 5 місяців тому

    I live here in BC right on the gold rush trail 60 feet from my front door so I enjoy these videos

  • @frankwood-sn5pu
    @frankwood-sn5pu 5 місяців тому

    You go to old digs and you can find gold were the white guys worked but were the Chinese worked it is cleaned out they did a good job they missed nothing they were very good miners I live in this area

  • @frankwood-sn5pu
    @frankwood-sn5pu 5 місяців тому

    Bill sure did know his stuff I have panned in some of the sites he talked about I did not hit it big but I did find some nice small nuggets and flakes Bill will be missed if you would like to try panning watch these videos Bill gave good info about were to look

  • @richiemarshall2755
    @richiemarshall2755 5 місяців тому

    I watch this history and wonder what the future history will play out as purple haired paracetamol and pro non pirates

  • @frankwood-sn5pu
    @frankwood-sn5pu 5 місяців тому

    Volcanic Brown sure got around in BC

  • @frankwood-sn5pu
    @frankwood-sn5pu 5 місяців тому

    Sounds like the great Canadian rail road war great story

  • @stevenlaxton3618
    @stevenlaxton3618 5 місяців тому

    What is that piano jingle called that they used for the intro music on this show?

  • @markthomas3730
    @markthomas3730 5 місяців тому

    Lytton totally destroyed by Wildfire on June 30, 2021. Lytton was destroyd by fires frequently.. 1931, 1937, 1949, ,,

  • @christondavis9641
    @christondavis9641 5 місяців тому

    Love these episodes.

    • @LonnieCWilliams-vu2lp
      @LonnieCWilliams-vu2lp 5 місяців тому

      Yeah the one guy really seems to know everything you really knows this stuff

  • @jamesfarmer3759
    @jamesfarmer3759 5 місяців тому

    Oilberta

  • @MarkWilliam-pl6qs
    @MarkWilliam-pl6qs 5 місяців тому

    It's sad that the millions of Americans who flooded in during the BC-Alberta gold rush sat by and let the British claim the territory for Canada! Fucking traitors! Now my Canadian coworkers, who are their descendants of these treasonous Americans, in N. Dakota say they wish their provinces were part of the US!

  • @deltaskyhawk
    @deltaskyhawk 5 місяців тому

    I remembering watching these when I was a kid. Great memories!

  • @CashMacGregor
    @CashMacGregor 5 місяців тому

    my great grandparents and grand parents along with a handful of aunts and uncles moved to kaslo in the mid 40's from the coast. i was born in 1949 in vancouver and i don't have a memory of it but in 1951 my mom brought me to kaslo for the family to meet me and we made the last leg of the trip on the moyie.

  • @alvincook8888
    @alvincook8888 5 місяців тому

    Must have been rough building in the winter months.

  • @alvincook8888
    @alvincook8888 6 місяців тому

    I have Pierre Burton's book! Fascinating!!

  • @alvincook8888
    @alvincook8888 6 місяців тому

    You can still find gold in Dawson city today.

  • @alvincook8888
    @alvincook8888 6 місяців тому

    A book named, KLONDIKE, written by Pierre Burton, Canadian author, confirms this story. Excellent book!! Yes, Jim Skookum, the Indigenous man, found the motherlode. Its all true.

  • @alvincook8888
    @alvincook8888 6 місяців тому

    There's a place Australia they discovered 7 times the amount of the Klondike.

  • @alvincook8888
    @alvincook8888 6 місяців тому

    Today's gold price is just over $2300 oz. American. Some say gold will be $5000. Oz. In 5 years. American dollars.

  • @hoboonwheels9289
    @hoboonwheels9289 6 місяців тому

    The highway past my farm in Alberta, highway 633 was the Great Northern railway till 1936. Its not unusual for families to continue with the profession the family knows, including women taking up their father or husband's profession.

  • @jimksa67
    @jimksa67 6 місяців тому

    Great storey . What untold history in BC! Great area! So long for now and remember- every day is a treasure!!

  • @plandemic8167
    @plandemic8167 6 місяців тому

    These are priceless stories, I say, driving out of Pentiction to Kelwona at 10.30pm

  • @jimksa67
    @jimksa67 7 місяців тому

    There are still immense treasures out there! The greatest being salvation through Christ! Don't neglect it- Hell is waiting and continually expanding her borders!