Author: JStoness
Gold in the Yukon
Gold in the Yukon! Those words echoed around the world and like a magnet they attracted people by the thousands. Of the approximately 100,000 who set off for the Klondike Region of the Yukon, only a puny 25,000 made it. Some of the dreamers were miners, others were people in […]
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British Columbia’s Nemiah Valley
West of Williams Lake, British Columbia, there is a remote valley. It is a valley of great beauty backdropped by white crested mountains. This is the Nemiah Valley, the homeland of the Xeni gwet’in (honey gweteen) , one of the six T’silhqot’in bands of aboriginals. The forests broken occasionally White […]
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A Tweedsmuir Lodge River Drift
Tweedsmuir Lodge In the Bella Coola Valley of western British Columbia, at a place called Stuie, rests the relaxing Tweedsmuir Park Lodge. For many years aboriginals came here to fish and hunt and declared it a nice place to rest. It certainly is that. While relaxing may have been on […]
Read MoreThe Bonneville Flood
Those who have been to Salt Lake City have probably viewed, or even floated in, Great Salt Lake. The lake is about 1/5th the size of Lake Ontario and is very salty. There are no out flowing rivers, and evaporation has decreased the average water level. Until a change occurs […]
Read MoreA Visit to the Fulton Steamboat Inn
One of my favourite stops has to be the Fulton Steamboat Inn. However, happening upon what looks like a large steamboat in the middle of town, seems a bit odd. Could it be because the inventor of the steamboat in the USA resided only a few miles away? And this […]
Read MoreLa Cite de L’Or
Our fascination with gold is endless and enduring. Capitalizing on this interest, the city of Val D’Or has established the site at the old Lamaque Gold Mine as an industrial mining The Mine’s Headframes heritage. Funds, along with Federal Government grants are rapidly turning this abandoned gold mine into an […]
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