Katherine Bickford

The second part to the mysterious pipeline story happened by accident when was hiking along the Browns River looking for remains of the old dam that was used as part of the early Courtenay water supply. To be accurate, at this point it was hiking ‘around’ the Browns as in some parts you can’t hike along the river as the banks are too steep. To be really accurate, I headed inland a touch and was hiking along on the access roads into Scouts Canada Camp Gilwell.

That’s when I saw an exposed section of the old water supply pipeline, along the road, to the south of the Browns.

This section of the pipeline is on property leased by Scouts Canada, so it would be polite to ask before you go trekking around to see it. If you want to, the latitude and longitude is N49°41.259’ W125°04.317’, and I’ve included a nice Google map to help you find it or just see where it is with respect to the Browns and Puntledge and Courtenay.