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Archive for July 2022

The Mountain-Wise Disaster-Trained Railroaders Saved the Widow’s Home

By Golden BC Museum | 20 July 2022

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…

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Mining Report – Field BC to Golden BC

By Golden BC Museum | 14 July 2022

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…

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GORDON BARR FAMILY HISTORY

By Golden BC Museum | 4 July 2022

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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