This Old Coal Town Is Making A Comeback
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2024
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Very enjoyable video! My Grandfather moved west with the GTP eventually settling in Edson. He spent most of his adult working life as an engineer with the GTP and later the CNR running trains in and out of the Coal Branch (retiring in 1945).
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Very well done, thank you.
You are very welcome. Thanks for watching.
A few thoughts. I live in NE BC and worked in the oil and gas industry.
First, there are coal mines on the eastern slopes of the Rockies in BC as well near Tumbler Ridge and Chetwynd.
Second, work has taken me through Robb in Alberta. Never made it to Cadomin. But another thought about Cadomin. One of the gas plants I worked at had a diagram on the wall of all the different layers of rock in the region and what all the oil and gas bearing ‘zones’ were called. There was a zone (layer) named Cadomin and we had gas wells producing that zone. Not really surprising when we know methane and coal are often found together.
Enjoyed the video.
Thanks for sharing your insights! I use to live in Fort Nelson myself. Thanks for watching. New video every Saturday.
In the mid 1970's I did a master's degree on the natural revegetation of the abandoned Mountain Park mines, just up the road from Cadomin. I spent two summers in and around this area. Later, I worked for the Alberta Forest Service and established some revegetation field trials at the abandoned Cadomin mine. I have fond memories of my time there. Thanks for doing this video.
Hey, thanks for watching and for sharing your experience! New video every Saturday!
Awesome town,2 years since I was there but I could live there easily. Take care.
Yes it would be a nice quite place to live. I really liked the area. Thanks for watching. New video every Saturday. Here is this weeks video: ua-cam.com/video/6vC5j6St-TA/v-deo.html
Great mining history! I look forward to your videos every Saturday!
Hey...thanks for watching.
That first picture at 1:18 was Yellowhead Coal and Coking ,just a mile north west of Coalspur. I worked 40yrs till 2020 at the Coal Valley mine and in that time we went back into the old area's like Lovett ,Reco , Sterco ,Coal Valley, Diss Mercoal, Coalspur and Yellowhead and remined them before doing extensive reclamation returning them to natural habitat. It was amazing learning and seeing the history of all these old mines and the hardships they must of faced.
Interesting information. Thanks for sharing that with the channel and thank you for watching. It's appreciated!
@@oldlostminer you're welcome , thanks for keeping the history of these old mines alive.
Love these saturday treats great photos/videos thanks
Thanks for the kind words. It's appreciated.
I worked constructing an exposives plant at the Cardinal River coal mine in 1977 or 78.
It was a winter that i think broke records for cold at the time. I can remember minus 60 at 6:00 some mornings.
We were working outside with the rules being 7 minutes out in the cold followed by 7 minutes taking shelter in a crew van. These were the mines safety rules that we had to follow. There was not enough room on the ledge that we blasted out of the side of the mountain to allow room for a construction trailer so we had the van drive up to the site ,dump 8 guys out and 8 guys would pile in, then the van would back down the "road" to a wide spot and do it again all day long. By the end of the week that van would have ice 4 inches thick lining the walls from condensation from our bodies and breath. We would knock as much off as we could and then park it inside the Danbo Building Supply garage in Hinton for the weekend to melt the rest.
At the same time i was doing double duty building the Garth Griffiths truck repair facility in Hinton.
I would spend roughly 1/2 of each day at each project so i had free reign to travel around the area.
Sometimes when i was at the mine and was suffering badly from the night before so had no lunch i would drive to Cadomin for a meal.
There was a house there along side the river where a lady would open her kitchen to the occasional hungry straggler who happened by.
I would sit in her kitchen and she would cook me whatever she had or was having that day. It was her choice of what she cooked. Whatever she had. I cant remember her name but she treated my hangovers with her cooking many times. That kitchen was a good refuge for a wayward young man at the time. Lol.
Lifesaver.
I cant rember any other occupied houses there at the time but it was a long, long time ago. There probably were a few but i cant remember because i am an old fart now.
I also worked moving a building from some other abandoned town very close by to Robb (i think) to turn into a curling rink. We cut the building into 2 pieces and took it to Robb? and joined it back up again.
The guy i was working for was a shyster and ripped the customers off somehow and i remember it leaving some unhappy people including me.
I have never been back in that area since the 70s.
Hey thanks for that story. Your comment will be appreciated by me and other viewers of the channel. It's always great to hear from folks like you who have actually been to these places and lived or worked around them and have some knowledge of the history.
I upload a new video every Saturday morning. I'll be uploading the Diplomat mine around Forestburg Alberta in a few weeks so stay tuned. Thanks for watching!
Nice stories. Flood instead of fire disaster, that's new. You took nice pictures.
Yah first town that never burned down. Thanks for watching. See you next week.
Some of the old buildings of Lovetts are still there. Along with a few of the miner cemeteries. There isn't public access, though, as those areas are on Coal Valley's property. There are also some reclaimed pits that have been turned into lakes and stocked with trout.
That's good information to know. Thanks for posting that and thank you for watching.
I still have some photo's from when i was at the Cadomin mine in 2011.
Old photos are great. I wish I would have saved a lot of my old pictures. Hey.... thanks for watching. New video every Saturday.
if you grew up in the coal branch you can have your ashes scattered in the mountain park cemetery. my dad grew up in Luscar ( granddad & my great granddad called Geege by his grandkids & great grands were miners in the Luscar & Cadomin mines)
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my Grandfather and uncle worked in the mines in Michel/Natel BC(since immigrating to Can., I would guess around the late 1940's early 50's), which no longer exist. Now it has moved to Sparwood BC.
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My dad worked there underground near the end of WW II. coal spur, mercoal, luscar. His friend was killed right beside him when a chunk of coal fell on him, his eyes bulged out of his head. (I’m recalling dad’s recollection sorry) They brought the horses out from the bottom at christmas eve once a year at night as a christmas gift to them. all you had to say to them was “touch” and the horses knew automatically to move one coal car over for filling. my dad realized this was not a safe place for him and sat outside of the mine entrance for two weeks and they canned him. that probably saved his life.
Life was tough in the mines back then. Make no doubt about it. Actually it still can be a tough job. Thank you for sharing that little of of history. It's always appreciated and thank you for watching. New video every Saturday. BY the way.... I'll be uploading a video on the Diplomat mine out by Forestburg in a few weeks so stay tuned.
if my memory serves me correct, the mine was named the Bomber/ Bomer, mine. The opening is still visible to this day as you enter the old town. wish i could share a picture.
Thanks for sharing that information. May be helpful to others who maybe one day decide to take a tour of the area. Thanks for watching. It's appreciated!!
There's a lovely long and deep limestone cave on the slopes above Cadomin. I take my family there every once and a while. I think it's "protected" now due to some bat habitat conservation efforts.
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me and some friends went ' spalunking' in a cave at cadomin half way up a mountain and its the same one the canadian military use, or used to use, for training. This was in the early 90s. I heard that that cave stretches down to California. Unconfirmed of course.
Thanks for sharing that story! I know that there are caves somewhere around Canmore but was totally unaware of caves around Cadomin. Thank you for watching!
I’ve been in the cave twice, last I heard it was closed up with bars because of bats! 🙀
@@ProfessionalMusicPartners It is to protect the bats from White Nose fungus which has decimated the North American population of this species (Little Brown Bat, I believe). This was one of the few uncontaminated colonies (not sure if that is still true).
. As far as I know this is still true. I hiked up to near the cave entrance a couple years ago.
Don't worry about the glare. I'm sure if you want to use more dashcam footage you can use a dark cloth or something.
Good info there. Thanks for posting and thank you for watching.
I was born there in 1947 DR Melling Peters
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My family is from Cadomin My Grandfather died in the coal mine Family Name "Maddams"
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