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Category Archives: history
The concrete hulks
A few of the concrete hulks that form the mill pond breakwater in Powell River Sometimes you need a larger version, and we have one for you!
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Tagged history, ocean, Powell River, ships
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Tsolum River – a bit of a mystery
The purpose of this structure is a bit of a mystery – it’s along the old Comox Logging Railway grade, and opens onto the Tsolum River upstream of Farnham Road and the old mill site, I’m thinking it was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Comox Valley, Headquarters, history, river, Tsolum River
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A P Green Empire bricks
A. P. Green Empire brick – Bevan Townsite A.P.Green Empire bricks are firebricks that were made by the A.P. Green Fire Brick Co. of Mexico, MO.
Vanishing Vancouver Island
Just an old house – one of many buildings that are fading away and vanishing
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Tagged abandoned, buildings, Comox Valley, history, vanishing Vancouver Island
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Vanishing Vancouver Island
Just an old house – one of many buildings that are fading away and vanishing
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Tagged abandoned, buildings, Comox Valley, history, vanishing Vancouver Island
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Nanoose – the bricks on the beach
I like to know what the history of things that I’m looking at so I did some research into the Clayburn, and Kilgard bricks that are scattered on the shore of Nanoose Bay at the site where the Red Gap … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, bricks, Clayburn Bricks, Highway 19, history, Kilgard Bricks, Nanoose, ocean, Red Gap, Red Gap mill, sawmill
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E&N Railway locks…
The train don’t run here anymore, but things are still locked up. The Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway once operated freight service between Courtenay, Port Alberni, and Victoria, as well as the Dayliner passenger service between Courtenay and Victoria. The only … Continue reading
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E&N Railway locks…
The train don’t run here anymore, but things are still locked up.
Posted in E&N, history, rail, The train don’t run here anymore, trains
Tagged CPR, E & N Railway, history, locks, rail, railroad locks, railway locks, The train don’t run here anymore, trains
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The train don’t run here anymore…
No trains going but lots of plants growing…
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Swartz Bay Killer Whale
Killer Whale at the BC Ferries terminal in Swartz Bay Although there are many similar pieces of work in Victoria and Vancouver, you don’t hear much about them anymore, or why they were created.