Golden Sikhs
The first Sikhs arrived in Golden in 1902 to work in the mill of the Columbia River Lumber Company. Their Gurdwara (temple), one of the earliest in BC, became a focus of cultural identity...
- british columbia
- canada
Passage by Sail
On July 13, 1792, the sloop 'Discovery' commanded by Captain George Vancouver, R.N., skirted Cape Mudge and entered the narrow, tide-ripped channels leading northward to the open Pacific....
- british columbia
- canada
Fernie Coal
From BC's Stops of Interest
- british columbia
- canada
Incredible Forests
Spars cut for Capt. Cook's ships in 1778; logs skidded by oxen in 1860; whistles blown on 'steam- pots' and 'locies' in 1900; countless products made by complex machines; all recall the...
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- canada
Seymour Narrows
Treacherous currents, swirling eddies, and turbulent tide-rips still harass vessels despite the blasting away in 1958 of the twin peaks of Ripple Rock. Charted in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver,...
- british columbia
- canada
Canal Flat
In 1808 David Thompson named this flat 'McGillivary's Portage' as he crossed from Columbia Lake to the Kootenay River. In 1889 W.A. Baillie-Grohman joined the two waterways by a canal with a...
- british columbia
- canada
Ohlone at Ardenwood
- union city
- california
- bay area
- ohlone
- ardenwood
- indian
River of the West (Sign missing)
For 1200 miles, in two countries, the Columbia carves its way to the Pacific Ocean. Named after Robert Gray's ship the 'Columbia', it was first mapped in 1811 by David Thompson. This 'highway' for...
- british columbia
- canada
- rewritebc
A Dream Fulfilled
It was the dream, in the 1880's of W.A. Baillie- Grohman, British sportsman and financier to reclaim these fertile flats from the annual river floods. His canal at Canal flats diverted part of the...
- british columbia
- canada
Sumas Lake Reclamation
In 1924, by a system of stream diversions, dams, dykes, canals and pumps, 33,000 acres of fertile land were reclaimed from Sumas Lake. Few areas in B.C. have such rich soil with transportation...
- british columbia
- canada
Railway Surveyor (Sign missing)
In 1871, Walter Moberly, in charge of surveys for the mountain division of the projected Canadian trans-continental railway, built log cabins east of here for survey party "S". The...
- british columbia
- canada
Campbell River Fire
On a hot day in July 1938, an ominous smoke pillar near Gosling Lake signalled a forest fire which was to ravage 115 square miles of logged and timbered land. Over 1500 firefighters battled grimly...
- british columbia
- canada
Royal Presidio Chapel
1794 ROYAL PRESIDIO CHAPEL The oldest building in Monterey, this is now the San Carlos Cathedral.
- monterey
- california
- 1794
- presidio
- cathedral
- chapel
Italian Fishermen
1875 Italian Fishermen Italian fishermen arrive in Monterey and joined the Chinese in harvesting fresh fish for shipment throughout California via the Monterey and Salinas Valley Railroad. This...
- monterey
- california
- 1875
- italian
- chinese
- fresh-fish
- fishing
The Slocan Mines
Silver was the key that opened the Slocan. Discovery in 1891 of the rich outcrops of the "Slocan Star" and "Payne" touched off the wildest lode excitement in our history. The silver-lead ore was...
- british columbia
- canada
West Kootenay Power
When hydro-electric power was first delivered from No. 1 plan to Rossland's mines in 1898, the 32 mile transmission lines were the longest on the continent. Utilizing the 360-foot drop...
- british columbia
- canada
Eagle Pass (Sign missing)
In 1865 Walter Moberly, government engineer, was searching for a railway route through these rugged Monashee Mountains. He shot at an eagle's nest, and observed the birds fly into a river...
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- canada
- rewritebc
Prospector to Premier (Sign missing)
Lured from Canada to the Fraser goldfields in 1859, John Robson started a radical newspaper in 1861 at New Westminster and was elected to the legislature in 1867. A fiery critic of colonial rule,...
- british columbia
- canada
The Last Spike
A nebulous dream was a reality: an iron ribbon across Canada from sea to sea. Often following the footsteps of early explorers, nearly 3,000 miles of steel rail pushed across vast prairies,...
- british columbia
- canada
Skinner Bluff
SKINNER BLUFF An interesting series of ridges and bluffs assoc-iated with the Niagara Escarpment are visible from this site. At the top is a massive dolostone bluff, an erosional feature flanked...
- ontario
- canada
- bluff