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Photographed: 2010
Original title: Tete jaune Cache aerial view.JPG
Tête Jaune Cache once connected railway construction, riverboats and trade. Its quieter landscape also holds the history of Simpcw displacement and return.
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Photographed: 2007
Original title: 07-04-07 1931 wellstheatre.jpg
Wells grew while much of Canada struggled for work. Follow the gold, town planning and community life behind its colourful Cariboo streets.
4 min readNear Fort Fraser in April 1914, the Grand Trunk Pacific’s rails met. The ceremony tells a northern railway story of ambition, work and complicated consequences.
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Photographed: 2022-08-23
Original title: Station
Giscome, Penny and other Upper Fraser settlements grew around mills and railway connections. Follow the machinery, community life and changes behind their names.
3 min readVisit Barkerville’s quieter winter season through its snowy streets, gold rush winter stories and the practical details of a self-guided visit.
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Photographed: 2012-06-19
Original title: downtown Prince George at night
A ghost walk turns familiar downtown blocks into places to stop, listen and notice the city’s overlapping lives.
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Photographed: 2006 spring
Original title: Barkerville BC Cemetery; Black & White.jpg
A theatre, a saloon keeper and a Halloween dog with a film credit: Barkerville’s ghost stories are woven through a town with a lively history of performance.
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Photographed: 2019-09-23
Original title: 108 Mile Ranch 4116.jpg
The roadhouse was real. The alleged killer is much harder to find. At 108 Mile, the most absorbing mystery may be how a story became attached to a place.
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Photographed: 2010-09
Original title: Lightning Hotel 2010 Sept.jpg
Discover Stanley on the Barkerville road through its surviving hotel, Chinese businesses and the working community behind the ghost-town name.
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Photographed: 2021-08-18
Original title: Quesnel Forks, Likely, B.C. - Flickr - Crusty Da Klown.jpg
Explore Quesnelle Forks through its riverside buildings, Chinese Canadian history and the community work that keeps this Cariboo townsite legible.
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