Archive for July 2022
The Mountain-Wise Disaster-Trained Railroaders Saved the Widow’s Home
From the Daily Colonist, November 15, 1964 By Edmund E. Pugsley “I have seen many ghost towns since I came to Canada from Sweden in 1889. And I have read…
Read MoreMining Report – Field BC to Golden BC
The Miner – October 7, 1897 In the year 1886 Mr. R.G. McConnell, of the Geological Survey department, made an examination of the Rocky mountain range comprised within the belt…
Read MoreGORDON BARR FAMILY HISTORY
John Barr, born in Ontario of Irish origin, married Emma June Puffer in Ontario in about 1871. John was a farmer, who soon took up lumbering at the mill in…
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