Chief justice, Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie is for those who have done the research a hero of British Columbia and should be honored in every way... On a spring morning in a small English Colony on the Pacific Coast of British North America. It was just another Sunday on Vancouver's Island. The good people of Victoria went to Church. While leaving the service they saw a ship landing prospectors from San Francisco on the beach. The none native population of the colony had Just Doubled! In what today is British Columbia the total non native population went from under 700 to over 30,000 the year was 1858! From that time to today, people have come here to better their lot in life. They built thousands of camps, towns and some Cities. Furs, Mining, Logging, Fishing & Whaling all these industries and more built our communities. Folks called these places Home, raised families and buried their fallen. Some grew into great Cities like Phoenix. This site helps to keep alive the camps, towns & cities, that are now mostly decayed & forgotten... + only a 3 hr drive from Vancouver. BcHistory@Gmail.com In 1879 a wild gang of horse stealing desperado's advanced to Murder. These reprobates could ride like the wind and were dead shots. One of the biggest man hunts in B.C. came to be. This is The Story of The Wild McLean Gang and the Prices Paid! BcHistory@Gmail.com Let us know if we're going in the right direction. Our Highly Respected Gold Pan How to Video. ___Click Here___ Your Gold Rush Holiday, click here... VISIT GREENWOOD B.C. Just take the B Highways and back roads. You never know what interesting things to see & photograph. ===================================== +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Rock Creek is about a 30 minute drive East of Osoyoos. The Drowned Town of ARROWHEAD B.C. Phoenix B.C. Her Hockey Team once challenged for the Stanley Cup! A city GONE... BcHistory@Gmail.com The nucleus of the Ghost Town of Harrison Mills. Kilby's Hotel & General Store. This Ghost Town is just 1.5 hours from Vancouver. Make it a Ghost Town Day Trip to remember! Collecting British Columbia, Items in Mining, Advertising, Transportation, Hotel-ware, Steam era, Picture Post Cards, BC Police and any old thing with B.C. on it... The Grand Trunk Pacific's railway construction camps in BC were at the end of steel and designated by the mile they were situated from the Alberta boarder. She boosted all night high stakes poker games and saloons with standing room only 5 deep and a well patronized Red Light district! This very wild little town was not unlike the TV show "Hell on Wheels" only much more populated Today nothing remains of 52 Mile... __________________________________________________________________________ A GOLD Rush Ghost Story of Buried Treasure! The Ghost Ladies of our Rivers & Lakes Ghost Force "BCPP" the British Columbia Provincial Police Story We lost another Piece of our Past... BcHistory@gmail.com A Forgotten B.C. Graveyard of Unholy Souls -1904- Port Essington BC Simon Fraser, Alexander Mackenzie and David Thompson did not work for the Hudson's Bay Company, so who did they work for? Governor James Douglas offered full British Colonial Citizenship to any Negro in California. Many came & had good free lives here in the two Colony's of Vancouver's Island and British Columbia. BC came very close to War with the United States over the killing of a pig. True or False? "A Murder on the Okanogan" 188 Mile Road House and post office on the Cariboo Wagon Road, yep it's seen better days... A Butedale Video click here... Camp Defiance. Manning Park. "use Back button to return" Exciting Travel like winching your way thru Kitselas canyon on the Inlander. Scary going up river. Overwhelming coming down. Travel by daylight only. Travel like this on the Skeena was lost to us in 1912... BcHISTORY@gmail.com BC History Linkedin