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Hotel Ymir

Ymir, Friday Nights

Ymir British Columbia, a sleepy little burg not all that different I guess from most small towns across the country. There’s not much going on. All the tired old cliches apply here…they roll up the sidewalks come dark (wait, they have sidewalks?), you could shoot a cannon down main street… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Skidder Atco Wood Products

The Woods

Come on, jump in the truck. There’s room for a few of you. We’ll be heading up a winding mountain road, (don’t worry, we’ll be in competent hands), to a densely forested slope in the West Kootenays of British Columbia to witness something incredibly interesting. We’re hanging with the the… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Ymir BC Yankee Girl

Yankee Girl

The history obsessed crew at BIGDoer.com pays a visit to British Columbia where we’ll explore the remains of the historic Yankee Girl Mine overlooking the tiny community of Ymir. There’s the mine dumps where non-ore bearing material was discarded, some collapsed buildings, bits from a tramway, rails, metal, who knows… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Bridge Troup Junction

Troup Junction

…Canadian Pacific Railway line bisects the old junction tracks. Troup Junction: interesting remains of an old railway line beside a gorgeous lake in the West Kootenays of British Columbia. Researched, written and photographed by Chris Doering and Connie Biggart (BIGDoer.com) The line into Troup Junction was built by the Nelson… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Doukhobors Alberta cemetery

Anastasia Lords

…Southern Russia. That region today encompasses parts of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Fleeing persecution in their home country, large groups of them settled (mostly) in present day Northern Saskatchewan and a bit later South-Central British Columbia (a couple small settlements were also founded in Southwest Alberta.). They lived a communal… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

The Bear Stare

Random Pick: The Bear Stare

The Bear Stare: here’s a random pick photo from the collection showing a brief but memorable face to face encounter that happened out near Trout Lake British Columbia. That place is simply crawling with those furry beasts and encounters quite common. There we were burning down some logging road, at… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Lower Kananaskis Lake

Kananaskis Fire Lookout

…That section, plus what is yet to come, is occasionally driven by the lookout personnel. In no time we arrive at a second junction, where we turn right again. The other route heads towards British Columbia, which is only a few kilometre away and according to hiking guru Gillean Daffern… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Craigellachie Kid

Craigellachie Kid

…chatting about this example. Scroll down for photos and to comment. Edward was born in Victoria British Columbia in the 1867 (just a month before Confederation), and as impetuous youth often did, struck out for adventure in his teen years. Hoping to join the militia fighting in the Northwest Rebellion… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Caboose Nakusp Rail Society

Nakusp Rail Society

The last train to Nakusp British Columbia was close to thirty five years ago and with that a chapter closed. The line into town remained in service just shy of a hundred years, so it wasn’t a total wash. As a memorial to this past, the wonderful folks at the… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Silverton BC Waterfront

Silverton BC Waterfront (SS Slocan)

For your enjoyment it’s two photos of the waterfront in Silverton British Columbia separated by at least a century and similarly composed. The angles line up and it’s a good match! The mountains and lake present a timeless scene, but the SS Slocan, and the railway’s presence in the valley… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Koehring Ross Heel-Boom Log Loader

Roadside Rust: Heel-Boom Log Loader

Here’s some really cool roadside rust and this wheeled monster is an old log loader found in the remote mountain community of Beaton British Columbia. It’s a small settlement, so far off the map and hidden away that it might as well be on the moon. Not that it’s a… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Rotary Display Cranbrook BC

CPR #4090, #4469 & Elko Station

The Cranbrook History Centre, Cranbrook British Columbia, is home to a huge collection of railway stuff and in this post we’ll be showing you just a little bit of it. Founded in the 1970s, as the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel, the organization has grown over the years and today… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Elk River Inn Hosmer BC

It Continues: Elk River Inn Hosmer

It Continues: Elk River Inn Hosmer British Columbia. Here we’re paying a visit to a small town hotel for the Beer Parlour Project series with vintage film camera photographer Rob Pohl. Maybe you’ve seen him before on this website and while our techniques and equipment are worlds apart, we share… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Grave Markers Trout Lake

Trout Lake BC Cemetery

…be called a city. Then in a flash, it ended and by the 1930s, the once happening Trout Lake City flirted with ghost town status. Empty streets and vacant stores spoke of a boom long over (see: Downtown Trout Lake British Columbia). Still the community held on, and survived somehow,… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Views Myrtle Mountain Kimberley

Kimberley Nature Park Myrtle Mountain

This hike to Myrtle Mountain, in the Kimberley Nature Park Trail Network (Kimberley British Columbia), visits a number of superb viewpoints. Look out over town, the broad Rocky Mountain Trench and up the St Mary’s River Valley – it’s all wonderful scenery. It’s a fair sized loop with a bit… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Jellyfish of Comox Harbour

Jellyfish of Comox Harbour

…curiosity, but at the same time a bit creepy and due to the calm waters here behind a breakwater, seem to congregate en masse. We’re out on Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia and enjoying something different. We believe these are moon jellyfish (aka common jellyfish) and they cover a… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Historic Revelstoke Courthouse

Historic Revelstoke Courthouse (1913)

The impressive structure shown here is found in a pretty-as-a-postcard mountain community out in British Columbia. The place is Revelstoke, our subject dates back to 1913 and built in the the Neoclassical style popular of the era, around the world, but not something you’d expect to find out this way…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Trail BC Sunset

Random Pick: Columbia Gardens BC

…it’s been nothing damning or cringe-worthy, but it’s bound to happen some time. Here it’s a look at the Nelson & Fort Sheppard Railway Reload in Columbia Gardens BC and with the sky all aglow due to smoke from distant forest fires. And we just has to include a companion… (Search hits: 1 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

Coleman Collieries Locomotive

Coleman Collieries #DL11

The Crowsnest Pass, way down south there near the British Columbia border is one of our most favourite places to visit. Can’t get enough of it. History, hiking and the outdoors all rolled into one…it’s pure bliss! And one fine evening we’re wandering the town of Coleman, a community built… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

GM Parlour Coach

GM Parlour Coach

…train, or who knows what. Case in point here, a nice 1950s GM Parlour Coach, spotted while strolling about Revelstoke British Columbia. We’re in town just because and post dinner we’re exploring the Big Eddy section of town on foot, there across the Columbia River. It’s got a decidedly different… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

Mount Begbie Revelstoke

In the Shadow of Mount Begbie

It happened last summer and memories of this amazing adventure filled journey remain fresh. Imagine a week of epic fun, times a million, spent camping out and playing in the Shadow of Mount Begbie in Revelstoke British Columbia. We hiked, we explored, we searched out history, abandoned things too, we… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

Mount St Francis Nelson

Mount Saint Francis

…an incinerator for stuff, I guess, that needed to be disposed of in a most thorough kind of way. The Sisters of Saint Ann/Anne were founded in the 1850s in Quebec and have operated a number of schools and life care facilities throughout British Columbia over the years. They also… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

Sam Steele Inn Cranbrook

Wandering Cranbrook

…back there again. It’s the summer of 2018, we’re in on of our most favourite places to visit ever, Cranbrook British Columbia, and we’re putting feet to pavement (over two nights). Come tag along! We’ll visit the other side of the tracks, the downtown core, and many random places. By… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

BAe 125-700

BAe 125-700

Okay, this is strange…you might even say it’s plane weird. Plane weird? Get it! Haha! Here’s the fuselage of a former business jet, spotted on a property in the Kootenays of British Columbia. We were speeding down the highway, spotted it in the corner of our eyes and with some… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

Marblehead Quarry in BC

Marblehead Underground Quarry

British Columbia Ministry of Mines, Book: Circle of Silver by Milton Parent, Masons of California and Dale for hosting us. _________________________ BIGDoer.com: Doing it Different! Something to say in private? Click here to: Reach Us! NEWS! – First Timers – FAQ – Meet the Team BIGDoer.com on Facebook If you… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

FM H16-66 Locomotive

Under Wraps

This pair of cocooned locomotives call Nelson British Columbia home. It’s hoped they will eventually be put on display near the town’s restored railway station but for now are stored nearby on a siding, not publicly accessible and “under wraps”, awaiting the next move. Both date from the 1950s and… (Search hits: 0 in title, 2 in body, 2 in comments.)

Rosebery BC Slocan Lake

Rosebery BC Then & Now

Among the mighty peaks in the West Kootenays of British Columbia, there was for a time a most unusual railway operation. On account of challenging topography, the Canadian Pacific Railway (under the Nakusp and Slocan Charter) built a line isolated from the rest of its network with trains coming and… (Search hits: 0 in title, 2 in body, 2 in comments.)

Horror Movie Set Hook

The BIG Hook

…be able babel on enough to make this post informative and entertaining. Should we know more down the road we’ll naturally update this piece. We’re in the Crownsest Pass of Alberta, a stone’s throw from the British Columbia border. It was once an active coal mining centre, but today a… (Search hits: 0 in title, 2 in body, 0 in comments.)

Roger Sugar Taber Locomotive

Ex-Manitoba Sugar

…of British Columbia and operated under their Roger’s Sugar brand. The locomotive worked at the plant till its closure in 1997. The buildings there still exist but are used by a grain firm mostly. Before the arrival of this locomotive, the plant had a couple small steamers to do the… (Search hits: 0 in title, 2 in body, 0 in comments.)

Cody BC Train Station

Cody & The Noble Five

Hidden among the precipitous peaks of the Silvery Slocan in the rugged East Kootenays of British Columbia, way up Carpenter Creek, there’s a most amazing ghost town. Shoehorned into a narrow, confined valley, and sometimes obscured by dense undergrowth, it’s photogenic place with the name of Cody. Down a winding… (Search hits: 0 in title, 2 in body, 0 in comments.)

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