Abandoned - Lost Channel Ghost Town - DJI Phantom 3 Pro Drone
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2015
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Revisited The Lost Channel after a 10 year absence and decided to do a tour of the old ghost town remains. We used to come here as a family annually to do vacationing and thought it was time to bring my family along to experience the north.
In 1917 the Lauder, Spears and Howland company built a large sawmill on Lake Kawigamog and intended on hauling out the lumber along a rough road to Pakesly where the mainline of the CPR exists about 10.5 miles to the west.
After the sawmill was constructed Mr. Howland persuaded his partners to build a rail link from the Lost Channel to the town of Pakesly to join the mainline. Before the railway could get completed however they ran into financial difficulties resulting in them losing their vision of the Lost Channel.
Schroeder Mills & Timber Co. resumed where the others left off and finished the railway and The Key Valley Railway was born. The town grew and built bunkhouses, a cookery, hospital, school and housing for the workers.
By 1927 the pine in this area was pretty well used up so they switched over to manufacturing hardwood under the new ownership of James Playfair & Co. (Pakesly Lumber Co.) The heat generated from the saws at a mill originally designed for softwood was to be blamed for the fire that broke out in 1928 which consumed the mill and spread to the engine house destroying two locomotives and a boiler.
A new smaller mill was constructed and continued operation until the depression started. The continued to operate through the market slump but it eventually caught up with them. They had over 40 million board feet stockpiled at Pakesly and had to shut down operations in 1933. The stock was sold off at less than wholesale prices and the mill was dismantled and sold and the rails of the Key Valley Railway were lifted in 1935 ending the life of The Lost Channel as a logging community.
Lost Channel
Lost Channel Inn & Marina
Pakesly
Key Valley Railway
Abandoned
Ghost Town
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Lake Kawigamog
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Funny to see the kawigamogers out and about, we are across from comfort island
my grandfather had the boat on this system that towed the logs to that mill, but I have never been to this site, it was very interesting for me Thank You
Thanks Kyle - Great shots - Reminds me of the many trips I made on Kings Highway #1 and the many areas to explore. My relatives in Tweed didn't get electricity until 1948, but enjoyed the wood stove kerosene lamps -- most, food was bartered -what wasn't produced on the turkey farm.--do you know if the old distillery is still in Corbyville? Don't know that this is the place for it but could tell you a very interesting story about it.
brilliant
The place where the mill was, was once a marina. I knew it as Lee's. There were lots of cabins there, the main house was pretty big. We parked our boat there until it closed, then we went to Lost Channel. On the right side (as looking at the marina building) is where all the docks were. There was lots of evidence of the railway. There was a boiler sitting in the water along with the tracks at the shallower end of the boat docks. The family has/had a cottage in the bay across from the third island from the marina. Cottage is still there, but I am not part of that family anymore. There used to be an old Mill at the end of that bay as well. I was always told not to go near it because there were wolves. I am sure there were wolves everywhere!
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Great nature video.
It is always amazing how nature will add beauty to the stark underground.
wow!
Nice video, Kyle. It's nice to share your childhood memories with your family, and with your UA-cam viewers. Thanks for posting this.
Are there Grizzly Bears in that area?
Oh yeah, sure is and black bears too. We had a water bomber dive down in the lake from the video and pick up water 3 times right in front of us. Wish I would have had THAT on video...
No grizzleys there...lots of black bears
P.S. Now that I know where you are I'll have to drop by =) I'm across from the Leautis* club.
I have a bunch of tools from that area on my cottage walls.
Dude my cottage is right across from there and me and my cousins go exploring over there all the time
Ours is as well, we are on the south shore of Kawigamog, right across from the old powerhouse building. The Mills Hideaway.
I went there all the time when i was a kid my grandfather ownd it till he passed he loved that place great thanks for the vid
was your grandfather named Irv? If that was him, you're right, he was a great guy!
yes .......
Very cool, he was the spirit of the Lost Channel and you're right, he loved it very much
Kyle Mills how old r u i may no u?????but maybe not......lol
Probably not but I'm 36, I don't remember your grandfather a lot but from what I do he was always happy and greeted us with a warm welcome