The Province of British Columbia is located on the west coast of Canada. This region has some of the most beautiful natural waterways and scenery in the world.
At the turn of the last century, D’Arcy Island, a remote patch of land off Vancouver Island, was prison to a handful of Chinese people suffering from leprosy. They were marooned there to die. Today, the island is a park, its history buried with the forgotten Chinese men — and
On March 27, 1964, North America suffered its strongest earthquake this century. The result became known as The Great Tsunami of 1964. The epicentre of the quake was located 1300 kilometres north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, off the coast of Anchorage, Alaska. The quake, which registered 8.5 on the
The onslaught of thousands of people into the Cariboo gold fields of the 1860's was by most accounts, from the law & order standpoint, pretty peaceful compared to the California rush a few years earlier. This fact can be attributed in part to a few good government officials. Chief of
Emerald Lake, near Field British Columbia, is a beautiful site. Formed by the thrusting of the mountain ranges and filled with glacial run-off, the surface of Emerald Lake glistens with the blue-green hue of an emerald. During the early days of the transcontinental railway, which joined Canada from coast-to-coast, the
The Princess May (first named Cass, then later, Arthur, Cass (again), Ningchow, and Hating) was 249 feet (76 m) long, 33-foot (10 m) beam, 18-foot (5.5 m) depth of hold, 1717 gross and 1394 registered tons. She was driven by 3 engines driving three propellers. Built in 1888, The Princess May was designed
The Vanlene left Japan in 1972 with its holds filled with 300 Dodge Colts. It traveled east towards Washington State without the services of radar and radio direction finders. They even had a faulty depth finder. It made its was, unknowingly in to the area of Vancouver Island, some 200
Doreen Ashburnham was born May 13, 1905 in the County of Sussex, England. Growing up, Doreen was considered to fragile for the harsh English climate, so her parents moved to Canada! Excuse me for chuckling a bit, but does anyone else find that logic a tad amusing?Well, the amiable climate
The totem poles of the Northwest Coast tribes were actually family crests and not religious icons, denoting the owner's legendary descent from an animal such as the bear, raven, wolf, salmon, or killer whale. Coming into a village, a stranger would first look for a house with the totem pole
Jack HarleyThe native peoples of what is now central Canada had a unique way of helping others get to their destination without losing their way.A young tree prominently situated at a trail intersection or sharp turn had one or more limbs trained to point in a certain direction to aid
Feb 13, 1950, Eielson Airbase, Fairbanks Alaska: A Convair B-36 bomber (Flight 2075) of the US 436 SAC squadron left the airbase at 5:25 PM for a run to its home base at Carswell Air Force base at Fort Worth, Texas. The flight was to take 16 hours and was
