Miners, Memories And Tales Of What Once Was | Hedley BC | Part 4
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Hello! Thank you for stopping by for part 4 and finale of our mini series! We visit the old foundation of the stamp mill in Hedley, two historic cemeteries and find our way to the abandoned upper tram station cabin. We will never be able to do this area the justice it deserves when telling its tale, this is simply a tiny piece of an amazing story that is, was and will always be Hedley BC.
A huge thank you to the patient and knowledgeable people at the Hedley museum and for all those who shared their tales of this amazing piece of history. We are currently speaking with the Hedley Cemetery, hoping to find out where Archie and Billie are buried, as their names did not show up on the most recent burial list for the Hedley Cemetery.
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1898, the gold rush begins in the Similkameen Valley, where hundreds of men and women came in search of fortunes, or a wage paying job and a touch of luck. Today the community continues with generational lineages that spanned not only the past hundred years, but those families whose earliest ancestors came to the Similkameen thousands of years before, the Upper Similkameen people. To grasp the tenacious character of those who built Hedley, one only needs to look thousands of feet above the town where Nickle Plate Mountain meets the ski, where wooden structures cling preciously to the mountain strata, a place where hard luck was won and lost at the Hedley Mascot Mine, and below in Hedley City where the dreams of riches and gold where matched by the reality of life in a geographically remote local and on lands that have been reputedly been cursed by a Similkameen medicine man. Community memories, including written history, shared stories, and photographic evidence, paint the inhabitants of Hedley as imaginative, tenacious and as tough as the mountain they were determined to triumph over in order to secure their riches. -Canadian Museum Of History/Hedley Heritage Museum.
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Thankyou for the respect you have shown to our cemetery. A small group of us formed the Hedley Cemetery Society. We get a small grant from the Regional District to help with the upkeep. A few years back, we had the radar people come in to find some sites that we knew nothing about. This property will never be a lush green oasis. We have no water, so the best we can do is try to keep the weeds down. One of the special things we like to do - every year after Remembrance Day, we take the wreathes from the Cenotaph up to the cemetery to lay at our veterans grave sites. Again - Thankyou!
Hello Ruth!! Thank you for watching and leaving a comment! Actually, I believe that was us that brought it to their attention. We were doing research about those who were buried there and were specifically looking for two miners that were killed while working and the Hedley Gazette said after a ceremony, they were buried there. When we did our research through the burial records, we couldn’t find their names and wrote the museum and they forwarded the information to those who run the cemetery. We later received a message from the museum letting us know they were looking into it and were hoping to secure some funding to get some equipment in to look into it!! It was great to hear and we’re very pleased that they were able to do so!!
Hello Beautiful views Very great video my dear friend Like👍😉🏆Greetings
Thanks for taking the time to watch! We really appreciate it.
What a lovely peaceful place thanks for showing it to us. It was nice to see you walking around the cemetery and paying your respect.
Thank you:). It was an eye opener again to a sad time in people’s lives, but an honour to tell their story. Thanks for stopping by n take care!
Wow awesome scenery!!! 👍👍 Spot on y’all!! 👍 Take Care. 👋👋
Absolutely fantastic video! Thank you for doing this. It helps to preserve the stories and history of the area.
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it😀
Awesome historic pictures of the mining town. It is neat to see the comparison. The cemeteries were pretty cool, especially the one up in the forest. Pretty sad about the babies, though. Cool adventure. Take care.
Thank you for sharing this video. Well done! I have added it to the Hedley Cemetery Society Facebook page. That home you were exploring up at the Nickle Plate looks eerily familiar. My dad was born in Hedley in 1917 and for a while they lived up at the Nickle Plate, where my grand dad was a tram operator. I remember as a kid my dad driving us up to the Nickle Plate and his old house, perched on a slope, was one of the few remaining. This was in the mid-1960s. My most vivid memory of the house was the unique wall paper. Need to dig out some old photos and see if my dad took one of the inside of the house.
Wow! Thank you for doing that, we really appreciate it. Glad you liked it and amazing that this may be a place you visited as a child. We were told that this was the upper tram station cabin, so that would make sense. Let us know if you do find any photos, it’d be neat to know if it was the same place :)
Great work guys! Nice to get the video in before the first snowfall.
Thank you very much, we really appreciate it!! Happy Holidays :)
Wow, great part 4, this has been a great series to watch. 😍. Impressive guys.
Thank you for such a great comment!! The history of some of these small towns are so incredible, so much interesting information, pictures and stories. We really appreciate your continued support Conan and Heidi, take care, stay safe and hope you enjoy the holidays!
Your best video yet. The cemetery part is important to show the sacrifices people made for us to get our country going. Great job
Thanks!! Chyanne did this series :)
@@AdventuresRUs awesome stuff. You can find out so much of a towns history by looking at the graveyards. We have an old canary on the river here and I have been there many times. The grave yard is mostly chinese babies from the time. Thanks for sharing your great adventures
oh wow, such a unique place!
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Well done documentary
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Thanks. Very interesting. I've passed by a number of times, by car and bicycle, but never taken time to stop in. Just minor tips: try to slow down pans and use more b-roll for things like details (headstones, etc. in this case). External mic/recorder would be good for audio and duck audio so you don't have two commentaries going on at same time. Otherwise, good stuff that kept us watching right through. Incidentally, I know that in many communities (in Kootenays for instance) typhoid, measles, and other epidemics killed many people in these communities.
Thank you so much for watching it and your comment, we really appreciate the feedback! We know the panning is really bad sometimes!! We get caught up in the moment and forget how important it is to keep it slow! We were using a gimbal and the weight of our microphone offsets the balance and it won’t work properly:(. The voiceovers were intentional over the audio, but I totally get why people may not like it lol. We were experimenting with something new! We love using b-rolls, but weren’t comfortable using them with closeups. I know this subject can be a sensitive one and we tried to be respectful in what material we used. These were hard times, the heartbreak of so many in these communities:( Thanks again for stopping by and leaving a comment! Take care:)
Merry Christmas to you and your family
You too! Merry Christmas.
Awesome video, a bit creepy but still awesome.
Thank you very much for watching and commenting! Yes, this video doesn’t leave you feeling very comforted :(
a lot of young people were victims of the flu in the early days
Yes:( We mention that and I think that tuberculosis was a problem then too, that we don’t. 1918-1920, were bad years for the flu and walking through this cemetery was eye opening for sure:(
That looks like the old nickel plate mine
It’s the Mascot:)