Geology Field School, University of British Columbia

Vacation is just about over, back in Kelowna for a couple of days, decided to take a drive down to Osoyoos..... and on the way.... just before Okanagan Falls, turned Right.... and kept on going.... and going .... past the drop zone for the hang gliders, past the     Mahoney Lake       Ecological Reserve, kept on going.... to this.

A little bit closer.... to the Signage.....

Geology Field School

With the amount of names containing the word OIL, or a derivative of OIL.... could it be that there might have been a spill here, a spill there?

This camp was built with the generous help of the following companies and individuals

 1 Banff Oil Ltd. 
 2 The British American Oil Co. Ltd.
 3 The California Oil Co. Ltd.
 4 Consolidated Mining and Smelting
 5 Dome Petroleum Ltd.
 6 Fargo Oils Ltd.
 7 French Petroleum Co. of Canada Ltd.
 8 John G. Grey
 9 Great Plains Development Co. of Canada Ltd.
10 Gulf States Oil Co. of Canada
11 Honolulu Oil Corporation
12 Hudson's Bay Oil & Gas Co. Ltd.
13 Imperial Oil Ltd.
14 S. Aubrey Kerr   Petroleum Industry Oral History Project (PIOHP) 1980
15 George A. Lundy
16 Mobil Oil of Canada Ltd.
17 Phillips Petroleum Co.
18 Shell Canada Ltd.
19 Union Oil Co. of Canada Ltd.
20 William H. White


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Oliver Field School (Link Updated 2019-03-12)- Kitchen and Sleeping Accommodations 

Page 7 of 28  very interesting....

From the 1920s on a variety of arrangements were made for instruction of geology students in field techniques. In 1949, field school was run from old mine cabins near Twin Lakes, 15 miles NW of Oliver by W.H. White and R.M. Thompson. The area was considered too high and too wet. From 1950 on, the field school was on land leased from George Lundy on Victoria Creek near Oliver. Geology and Geological Engineering students spent three weeks in camp at the end of third year. Land (90 acres) was eventually purchased by UBC on this site, on the west side of the north-south Fairview-White Lake Road, a few hundred metres north of the entrance to the Suzy Susie Mine, at that time an operating mine. The field school was later directed by R.V. Best until his retirement in 1981 and then by a variety of faculty members.    snip 

Google Map link

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Geological Engineering students to benefit from UBC’s South Okanagan award-winning field school

An ecologically friendly, small-footprint design for rebuilding UBC's 60-year-old geological field school near Oliver, BC has received a 2012 Award of Excellence from Canadian Architect magazine.

The award winning designs by Battersby Howat Architects will help create a permanent ‘camp campus’ and geological training resource for institutes of higher education in Western Canada, and potentially, internationally.

The new field school will be a complete rebuild of the facilities. Old buildings will be replaced by new wood frame and plywood/sheet metal cladding construction that expands the capacity of the school to 90 people while minimizing the impact of the site, which is adjacent to a provincial park???????. Buildings will be consolidated and a novel canted wall design staggers sleeping bunks and maximizes use of the building volumes.

Since the 1950s, UBC has based its primary geological field school on a site near Oliver. Thanks to the generosity of alumni and industry partners (including companies such as Mobil and Shell) the University was able to formally purchase the property in 1961. Facilities on the site range in age from 35 to 60 years, and are in urgent need of replacement.

Making the project possible is a planned $3 million UBC Geological Field School redevelopment and teaching and learning fund, which will not only revitalize the current site, but also ensure that students have increased access to the training opportunities prized by the minerals industry.

Link to FULL STORY

An artist’s concept of the award-winning design of the South Okanagan field school
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An artist’s concept of faculty offices at the South Okanagan field school
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An artist’s concept of a dormitory at the South Okanagan field school
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An artist’s concept of the dining hall at the South Okanagan field school
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Award winning design worth $3 Million: in 2012 Dollars hasn't changed .... it's more like....

TWISTED Dinosaur fossils are often found with sharply curved necks, but that doesn't mean that they died in agony. Credit Mike Beauregard New York Times

Yeah, but, how did a Terrorist get to sit in the BC Liberal section of the Gallery in 2012?

Nothing to see here, walk on.  Look out for that Podium will ya!

...... Security at the legislature has been tightened over the years, especially after a mob of environmental protesters broke through security barriers in 1993, and again after the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States.

Following those events, computer security locks were installed on legislature doors, preventing public access to parts of the building. Gates and video cameras were also installed on vehicle access driveways. ....... Michael Smyth - the Province

Jaspal Atwal walked into BC Legislature Gallery on February 21, 2012, slipping under the elite radar software program called Prime-BC.   Didn't stop him from gaining access, .... just like Mr. Nuttall .... both should have been on Prime-BC list, or would they?

Rest assured, Mr. Nuttall's name is at top of the list, now.

These are TWO incidences on Premier Christy Clark's watch.

If the RCMP have been tracking these two individuals for so many months, what's with the Grand Standing, the Photo Op, the Churchillian speech .... "we will fight them on the beaches ...."  why allow them to just walk right in?


Rumours have it that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is about to shuffle his Cabinet because of the unrest with the Canadian people over HIS Senate appointees spending scandal .... first to be going, reportedly, is Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.

Does CSIS need evidence?

A Catch them in the Act scenario?

Why let two individuals show the world how easy it is to target our communities?

CSIS,

RCMP co-operation key Federal Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said the arrests were the result of close work between police and security agencies.

INTERACTIVE

Evidence in alleged B.C. terror plot

The investigation, dubbed Project Souvenir, was launched in February 2013 and co-ordinated by the RCMP-led Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams, which include investigators from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Canada Border Services Agency.

"The success of this operation was due to the close collaboration of our security and law enforcement agencies, including CSIS, said Toews in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoon.

"I would like to applaud the RCMP-led Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams — known as INSET — and all of the partners for their outstanding work on this investigation." Ah, could it be the WestSide-Kelowna By-Election that's the driving force?

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That "mob" breaking into the BC Legislature in 1993:

JULY 27-AUG. 2, 1983

Restraint program prompts massive union backlash

In one of the largest demonstrations in the city's history, more than 20,000 people gathered in downtown Victoria Sunday to protest the Bennett government's restraint program.

The defiant mob filled the legislature lawn and spilled into the surrounding streets as union leaders vowed to fight the Socred government's bid to downsize the civil service. 

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Premier Bill Bennett started that Riot, will Premier Christy Clark's Restraint program send 40,000 to the Sick Culture of Victoria?

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Could it be that the reason that RCMP delayed the arrest until July 1, was due to a Conspiracy involving the Americans...... and their bomb experts?

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Down in the USA, it's being reported:.... more pressure cooker "bombs", which turned out containing food:

An abandoned pressure cooker closed down a stretch of Highway 50 in Northern California near South Lake Tahoe for two hours earlier this week.

Two pressure cooker bombs were detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon two and a half months ago, killing three and wounding hundreds.

A local dispatcher received a call about the pressure cooker at the Lakeview Commons beach on Sunday near Highway 50, reported the Sacramento Bee.

Security staff and police cleared the beach and traffic was diverted.

A local bomb squad unsuccessfully attempted to detonate the pressure cooker with a robot. However, the cookware was ultimately destroyed with by a bomb squad member with a P.A.N. Disrupter water cannon, reported KOLO-TV.

Authorities said that the pressure cooker was not a bomb and had food inside.

Last week, a pressure cooker was placed near a fuel pump in Concord, New Hampshire, which also triggered the evacuation of homes and businesses, reported the Union-Leader.

Officials found that the device was a small deep fryer and was not a bomb.

Spelunking, Karst, Fracking: the first two mix, the last two don't mix

Each one of these little red dots represent a known cave, or a Karst... which is okay by those of our communities that just love to go underground....

Updated below on December 2, 2014

Google Search Criteria:  karst vulnerability mapping north eastern British Columbia

As you can see, Vancouver Island has more that their fare share... and if you're thinking that it's directly related to ... volcanic activity... or earth quakes....... Karst is having to do with carbonated bedrock...

Source of map Page 4 & 5 of 28

The BC Minister of Forest has this to say about Karst:

In British Columbia, the responsibility for managing karst resources in provincial forests lies with the Ministry of Forests. Under the Forest Practices Code, several provisions have been made for managing sensitive areas such as karst. The Code requires identified sensitive areas to be treated in a way that protects or conserves special resource values. To accommodate some of the unique requirements of managing karst, the ministry is developing interim karst management guidelines that will provide direction on managing forestry and recreational activities in karst landscapes.

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Karst is recognized as a highly valuable, non-renewable resource that can be especially vulnerable to disturbance, more so than many other land resources. The primary reason for this higher level of sensitivity is the three-dimensional nature of karst. The intricate relationship between karst's unique surface characteristics and the subsurface caves and hydrology make for a delicately balanced system. Industrial activities, such as rock quarrying or forestry, if not properly conducted, can lead to excessive soil erosion, destruction of surface and subsurface karst features, changes in groundwater flows, and contamination, sedimentation, or clogging of underground and surface streams.

Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipeline has been turned down by the BC Liberals, so far, although it's not an outright complete rejection.  At the Federal level, they've already made up their minds, haven't they.

There was a very detailed study done regarding the watersheds that the pipeline will be going through, fish counts too ... but did the Minister of Forests step up to the plate and talk about Karsts?

No!

LNG Hydraulic Fracturing  (Fracking) doesn't mix with Karst......

the leaching of calcium carbonate from bedrock has important buffering effects on acidic streams,

the groundwater associated with karst results in cool, even stream temperatures throughout the year,

the storage capacity in karst stream systems buffers seasonal flow rates to produce lower peak flows and higher low flow periods,

karst streams tend to supply more nutrients and encourage more algae and moss growth, aquatic insect populations within karst streams are larger and more diverse,

karst stream systems provide more protective sites for fish to rest, breed, and avoid predators

In 2003 the BC Liberal Government put together this little document: Karst Inventory Standards and Vulnerability Assessment Procedures for BC  BROKEN   New Link at bottom  September 24, 2014 Updated

Reconnaissance-level karst inventory work for the entire province of British Columbia was completed in 1999. The result of this work is a set of 87 map sheets (1:250 000 scale) outlining those areas in the province that have the potential for karst development. These maps can be used to assist with strategic planning and for directing more detailed karst inventories.   Page 4 of 123

Karst Inventory and Vulnerability Assessment Procedures in the Forested Karst Landscapes of British Columbia, Canada - ABSTRACT


Last but by no means Least, there's The First Nations concerns about Karsts:

As the archaeological evidence suggests, karst played a significant role in the lives of many aboriginal peoples in the past. Karst caves were not only used for shelter, but were also considered by some groups to be sacred places for burial and ceremonial purposes. .... snip

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June 7, 2013

 Protecting karst in coastal BC : special report
Forest Practices Board, 2007.

http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/PubDocs/bcdocs/407852/Protecting_Karst_in_Coastal_BC.pdf

http://www.fpb.gov.bc.ca/special/reports/SR31/Protecting_Karst_in_Coastal_BC.pdf

http://www.fpb.gov.bc.ca/news/backgrounders/Protecting_Karst.htm

Updated   December 2, 2014

It seems that the Province via the Forest Practice Board is no longer interested in protecting Karsts, the link above is broken, ........ However there is the Wayback Machine for May 26, 2007:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070526054106/http://www.fpb.gov.bc.ca/news/backgrounders/Protecting_Karst.htm

and the Wayback Machine for the year of 2007 on Karst
 http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.fpb.gov.bc.ca/news/backgrounders/Protecting_Karst.htm

How effective will licensees be at protecting karst in coastal BC from damage due to forest practices? The answer remains unknown. We know that karst is a resource that, particularly on the BC coast, is sensitive to damage from forest practices. Government no longer protects karst by checking and approving forest practices. Instead, those who carry out forest practices must themselves determine how best to carry out forest practices in a way that avoids damaging identified karst features. 

This shift of responsibility for karst stewardship, from government to industry, requires that licensees, their professionals, contractors and equipment operators all learn about karst, its identification, its sensitivity and its protection. More information on karst can be found in an on-line training course on the Ministry of Forests and Range website at http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/training/00008. <--- arst="" bc="" br="" handbook="" management="" of="">

Dr. Bruce Fraser, Chair

Update: December 2, 2014:

B.C. researchers dive underwater caves to solve salmon mystery (with video)

They donned scuba gear to follow the salmon, which seemingly swim through mountains near Bella Bella

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Acta Carsologica

Karst areas occupy 10-20 % if ice free land. Dissolution of rock by natural waters has given rise to specific landscape and underground.  Karst surface features and caves have attracted man's curiosity since the dawn of humanity and have been a focus to scientific studies since more than half of milenia.

Acta Carsologica publishes original research papers and reviews, letters, essays and reports covering topics related to specific of karst areas. These comprise, but are not limited to karst geology, hydrology and geomorphology, speleology, hydrogeology, biospeleology and history of karst science.

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Speleo ... Caving.... Link     Curated by PAUL

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Management of Karst Resource Features on Northern Vancouver Island

Special Investigation

April 2, 2014

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September 24, 2014

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BC Beekeepers 1918 Pure Honey - Italian Queenbees don't sting, they pinch!

We always believed that honey bees were native to British Columbia ..... "not so". But they've always been here, so they must be .... .... "NO,  ...... not so".

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Beekeeping has been practiced in British Columbia for nearly 150 years. The first 2 hives of honey bees arrived by ship at Victoria in May, 1858.  - Beekeeping in British Columbia A Brief Review

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In 1856, two years before Victoria got its first honeybees, Parisian Henri Harnet was given permission to set up 20 hives and teach apiculture in the Jardin du Luxembourg. The apiary and school are still active, now run by a non-profit society.  - Frances Backhouse

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In British Columbia, where the first hives arrived by ship in 1858, honey bee pollination is now responsible for more than $160 million per year in agricultural production. In comparison, the total market value of hive products, including honey and beeswax, comes in at a paltry $8 million. - AluminUBC Trek

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..... has reports of bees shipped to B.C. from California in 1858 and Oregon in 1860., and a lot of stories of the first settlers who kept bees - listserv entomology

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John S. Harbison (1826-1912) was one of the first beekeepers to import bees into California and was an inventor of innovative beehives and new methods of rearing queen bees. He authored An Improved System of Propagating the Honey Bee (1860) 

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John S. Harbison:  There he boarded the ship, Sonora, bound for San Francisco, and upon arrival transferred to the river steamer New World, and was taken up stream to Sacramento where he arrived on December 2, 1857 with a loss of only five colonies of his original 67 with which he had started.

 What triggered our sudden interest in BC Beekeeping was this book from 1918, which probably helped 1921 Gardening on a City Lot three years later, in Vancouver and the Gulf Islands.

Guide to Beekeeping

 We always believed that honey bees were healthy.... "No, .... not so".

Check out this Contents Page 63 (64) on Disease... and Vancouver BC "American foul-brood" (AFB)

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Vancouver, Surrey, East Burnaby and Kerridale (not part of Vancouver until 1929)

Instead of Burning or killing off the Queen Bee, is there a more humane method?

Yes, check out the FactSheet            Number 204

 The development of antibiotic-resistant American Foulbrood (r-AFB) demands that the drug should only be applied when brood disease has been confirmed or detected nearby. It is no longer recommended for disease prevention. Dependency on antibiotics can be sharply reduced through hygienic management practices, abundance of pollen and reduction of stress (refer to Factsheet #200). Do not use antibiotic extender patties.

 If Antibiotics causes cattle to gain weight quickly, and because We eat meat and are gaining weight quickly, does that then mean that we shouldn't be adding honey to our .... coffee/tea or porridge...?

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Women Bee-keepers:

"....women have given bee-keeping as much study as the would-be typewriter gives to stenography..."

Hmmmmm perhaps the author of "Guide to Bee Keeping" should have written "typewriterist" or "type writer" or "typist" instead of being penned as a "would-be typewriter".

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British Columbia Beekeepers  of which Valley Gold Bee Co. is one

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Bad Bee Keeping    actually his blog is just the OPPOSITE

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Kootenay Lake 1924  Pages 9, 10 (Image), 11

 Agricultue in West Kootenay
William J. Bonavia Secretary, BC Agricultural Department
 1924

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The bees are Italians, which do remarkably well, and some of the largest yields of honey per hive in the Province have been obtained in the Kootenays.  

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The Title, if you're wondering, came from "Hugh Murray", a North Vancouver District Teacher in the 1970s where the District had introduced an Outdoor School experience near Squamish, BC.  One field of endeavour was honey bees, and the fact that they were introducing a new "strain" of Honey Bees, from Italy.   To make the point of the proud announcement, Hugh contacted the local columnist Jack Wasserman with a tongue in cheek comment of: "These Italian bees don't sting, they pinch!"

School District 44's Outdoor School  Cheakamus Centre  nature is in session

• A Day In The Life at North Vancouver Outdoor School by Mike Shovar 

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Minimal-impact North Vancouver Outdoor School

First Nations Bighouse Program

From Superintendents Blog:

by Dawn Green

The new North Shore Credit Union Environmental Learning Centre, currently under construction at the North Vancouver Outdoor School (NVOS) inParadiseValley, has won a prestigious award of merit for sustainable design.

McFarland Marceau Architects Ltd., a Vancouver-based firm that specializes in sustainable design, won the award last month during the 2011 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence. The Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence have been running since 1968. In making their award selection, the jurors considered geographical and social context, and evaluated physical organization, materials and environmental features of the short-listed projects.

Slated to be completed by April this year, the $5.8 million Environmental Learning Centre reflects the environmental principles adopted by NVOS. The 840-square-metre building, with its raised floor and forest setting, follows a “tree house” concept and is situated above the floodplain, elevating visitors to the forest canopy. The facility, which will replace existing infrastructure at the school, features an exhibition space, dining hall, commercial kitchen, learning spaces and administrative offices.  SNIPPED

1921 Gardening on a City Lot in BC: 35 cents per day or $127.75 per year

Life is so complicated now, because of the internet. It's all about security, including Tomatoes.

Biosecurity Guidelines for Post - harvest Greenhouse Tomatoes: Prevention of Post - harvest and Storage Rot  - March 27, 2013

 

Link to Ron Finley Ted Talk Plants vegetables garden south central LA

Updated 2024-03-05  via the WayBackMachine 

https://web.archive.org/web/20130527105459/https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la.html

 
In earlier days, like the 1920's, there were more important objectives.... SURVIVAL of the fittest and we're not just talking about Tomatoes alone.

The City of Vancouver was incorporated on April 6, 1886, the same year that the first transcontinental train arrived.   There was no Costco or Safeways, maybe a "corner store" here and there, but if you had land, and there was lot of that around per capita, for the taking, then you could have your own source without depending upon California and a link via a Skagit River crossing.

All you needed was a 50' X 50' plot of land dedicated to your garden... Another 50' X 100' for the house and stable.

Gardening on a City Lot in BC

January and February, kale, parsnips, leeks, lettuce, and parsley;
March,spinach and broccoli;
April,  radish, onions, rhubarb, and broccoli;
May, asparagus and peas;
June, early cabbage, carrots, and beets;
July, early potatoes, parsnips, and beans;
August, tomatoes, cauliflower, onions, cucumbers, and summer squash;
September, cabbage, salsify, and herbs;
October, celery, brussels sprouts, leeks, and winter squash;
November, fall lettuce and early spinach;
December, same as for January and February.

Besides the fresh vegetables which may be had through the winter months, the gardener can have a large variety stored, including potatoes, beets, carrots, onions, celery, squash, and turnips.

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In 1921 the BC Government pegged the costs of food shopping at Thirty-Five cents a day  One Hundred Twenty Seven and 75/100 Dollars per year.

2013, taking into account Inflation.... that works out to  $1,536.76 ..... per year.  Does that sound about right?

Or does it mean that the Bank of Canada Inflation bean counters software is out of whack, has been out of whack for a long time.

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The early settlers but later than 1886, following the First World War, were encouraged to come to Canada, to British Columbia where they had to clear the trees, the stumps, plow the land, seed the fields, tend the fields, harvest the field, and have the resources, FOOD to last until the next year ..... like these Links to previous Posts here at the BBC.

Soldiers and Raspberries,  Stalwart Peasant,  Oats, Wheat and Barley Grows. Firsts for Women, Taxes and Tolls, Pigeon Phones, 125 year old Vancouver,  Tom Carter Gallery, Len Norris, Warner Loat, Trutch

Were City Lots dimensions determined by the need of its residents to fend for themselves, wholly dependent upon the land?   Were the backyard buildings still housing stables for horses, soon to be replaced by cars... which didn't create manure for the garden?  Up until 1950's Dairyland delivered their milk by HORSE... the manure was fantastic.... so Mr. D (our neighbour) used to say.... D is for Davis....

Today's residential Front Yards, now they could be used for a vegetable garden..... 26' setback X 50' wide or 33' wide... as long as there are not Horse Chestnut Trees growing on the front street ....  would the southern facing street front yards have more daylight than the their Northern facing front yards .... all depends on the size of the house, not by today's standards, but pre 1921.... is there an inflation counter for buildings...

A greenhouse would help....

Houseboating in BC. May 5 weekend weather: "Summer" like weather!

Kaslo Shipyard Company - Kootenay Lake

Cruise, fish and explore sensational Kootenay Lake from the unique vantage point of a houseboat. It's all yours to enjoy: the quiet hidden coves, vast sandy beaches, vibrant lakeside towns and superb freshwater fishing. Choose from our four seaworthy cruise vessels, each fully furnished with a spacious wheelhouse, full galley, full bathroom and complete sleeping facilities for four, six or eight people. Since 1970, this has been the holiday of choice for families, friends, couples, business groups and fishing parties from across Canada, the U.S. and abroad.

British Columbia's Kaslo Shipyard Company fleet has been in business for the past 33 43 years, and it's still going strong.

What's the drawing card for Kaslo?  Is it the owners?  Their clients?  The amenities?  The nearness to Alberta and USA?

Houseboating in British Columbia is Saltwater or Freshwater, it's your choice.   Don't forget about River  rafting.

We found the original document for this Post at the BC Legislative Library from 1980 and we thought it would be curious to know if the industry had gone from boom to bust, or holding it's own......   We chose not to do a tally of  HOW MANY vessels were in existence in 1980 (the data is there though) but one may only guess that today's fleet is much larger, based on tourism statistics.

You may have many fond memories of your first houseboat vacation, they are still there, waiting, to be rekindled.

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1980	2013
HOUSEBOAT RENTALS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA	HOUSEBOAT RENTALS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
This is a courtesy list of private companies or persons with houseboats available for rental. It in no way implies supervision or grading by this Ministry. Listings are alphabetical  by City/Town. Rates are available from the individual companies only. The telephone area code for British Columbia is "604".	Browse the British Columbia houseboat directory for a complete list of houseboat rental companies in British Columbia British Columbia. Listings include houseboat information, contact details, amenities, photos and links to British Columbia houseboat web sites.
1980	2013
TNT Houseboat Enterprise
Cherokee Resort Ltd.	Okanagan Wake Tours
Mara	Kelowna
Delta Charters Inc.	Lajoie de Vivre Houseboat Dinner Cruises
Richmond	Kelowna
Happy Holiday Fishing Charters	AA Kelowna Houseboating
Burnaby	Kelowna
Balfour Beach Inn
Holiday House Boats	Sunshine Houseboat Vacations
Kootenay Lake	Lake Koocanusa
Kaslo Shipyard Company Ltd.	Kaslo Shipyard Company
Kaslo	Kaslo
Cruise Along Houseboat Charter	Bluewater Houseboat Rentals
Sicamous	Sicamous
Shandy Cove	Waterway Houseboat Vacations
Sicamous	Sicamous
Waterway Houseboats Ltd.	Island Houseboats
Sicamous	Victoria
Explorer Houseboat Rentals	Sproat Lake Houseboat Vacations
Chase	Port Alberni
Ben's Marina & Trailer Court	Island Houseboats
Youbou (Cowichin Lake)	Lake Cowichan
C.R. Western Electric	Lakeside Floating Vacations
Campbell River	Powell River
Wilcuma Lodge & Resort	Island Houseboats
Cobble Hill	Victoria
Birch Bay Resort	Solaris Houseboats
Horsefly	Sorrento
	Fish & Duck Pub, Marina & Houseboat Rentals
	Port Alberni

Germanium, not Geranium; Lithium and Epidolite, only on horseback you say

Modern Day Geologists in British Columbia may be able to cover a lot of ground via Helicopters, but when it comes to finding, what was first found 1860 - 1912, when the only means of transportation was on foot, or by horseback, why not go back and try it again... using Guide Operations.   Guide Operations may not be financially beneficial, but what about the possible spin-offs of staking claims.

 Germanium not Geranium


Germanium


Select Bibliography:
Page 5 of 5

Germanium and Other Trace Elements in Some Western Canadian Coals, John A. Fortescue, The American Mineralogist, Vol. 39, 1954, pp. 510-519


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Wikipedia on Germanium

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Industrial Minerals in BC

Canadian Deposits of Lithium

In British Columbia there is only one recorded occurrence of a lithium-bearing mineral;  i.e. (epidote),  lepidolite in quartz and calcite about 10 miles northeast of  Illecillewaet Station (Glacier National Park) on the Canadian   Pacific Railway main line in the Selkirk Mountains  (~  Geological Survey  of Canada Ann. Rept.  New Series  Vol. VI, p. 29R, 1893).

Few complex pegmatites have been reported in British Columbia but they undoubtedly  occur. Areas  rich in pegmatites,  most of  which  are probably  simple unzoned  ones  include  the  Horse Ranch Range

  Cassiar;  Wolverine Range,  Omineca; Big Bend and Bugaboo areas of Selkirk Mountains,  and others

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BERYLLIUM

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  columbian niobium and tantalum

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Prospecting for Uranium (1959)

BC Liberals Bitter Pills: Misleading Graphs leads to Graft

Sometimes, for Some people, swallowing a pill is not doable.  It's like learning how to ride a bike. Or rather, being told HOW to ride a bike by someone who learned how to ride bike fifty years ago.... what the hell do they know... they drive a frigging car..., or worse, horse and buggies!

I learned how to ride that bicycle long before I learned how to swallow a bitter pill, ..... Aspirin.  When I was TOLD i HAD to take the Aspirin it was an uphill battle for my Mother, she never did manage it.   She gave up finally, Crushed the Aspirin between two spoons, then loaded strawberry jam into the mix and said "Enjoy Dessert"    ....   I did, and spat out the gritty stuff.

At sixteen I was advised that for the rest of my natural life I would be on pills.... twice a day.....  and at that point I was still in the fight of my life, I hadn't conquered that bitter pill routine.  I'd asked pharmacists, you know, those guys and gals (not back then)...it's their product...pills... they would surely know how to ... explain  .... in detail... how to swallow a pill.  They had no idea...  I was really starting to wonder if they ever took any of the pills that they sold to others.... maybe I'm the only person in the whole wide world (1.42 Billion people back then) who didn't know how, to.

Along came a buddy, "JR", we both belonged to the same "Gang "... South Vancouver Scout Troop at Knight Road and 49th.   JR didn't have to take pills, no help there, but his twelve year old Kid sister, did know, but didn't have to, do it.

Here's what she said:  'you have to keep the tongue busy, because it will take that aspirin, so too the gritty crushed aspirin, and push it hard to the roof of your mouth, it's a gag reflex ..........   r-i-g-h-t ...'  the tongue has to go hard against the back of your lower jaw's teeth's gum line ...... r-i-g-h-t....'   now put the pill in your mouth...... okay??.....ah-ha....'  here's a glass of water....... keep the tongue busy..... swallow.
 
It worked, has worked since 1960.  Doesn't matter what size the pill is, it works.

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Why all of the talk about a "Bitter pill" when we're supposed to be writing about Graphs and Grafts? 

Because, back in the Fifties through to the Eighties my family NEVER voted for W.A.C. Bennett, nor Bill Bennett, nor his sibling "brother" Bill Vander Zalm.  We were a small business family, Newfoundlanders, came out in the 1860's.... to Vancouver.

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The Social Credit Party "died" out in 1990, remember ...... , first Gulf War was a happening, followed hard on it's heels was the Conservative Party of Canada's Brian Mulroney doing his popularity death spiral poutine because of his introduction of the GST!!!, a TAX that no one wanted..... but we still have it today.

BC NDP came to power in 1991 lasted through to 2001 where the BC Liberals ran a smear campaign extolling their ability to do things better.  The majority of voters bought into, all except two seats.

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In less than ONE year of our Personal Income Taxes being cut by 25% the BC Liberals' Finance Gary Collins felt that he was obligated to Raise MSP Premiums by 50%!  What a Bitter Pill that was.

Facts not Fiction

In September of 2004, Prime Minister Paul Martin signed an Agreement that gave the Provinces and Territories a Ten Year honey pot of a deal, tranquility in financing Health costs, whereby British Columbia's share of the pie was $5.9 Billion...... for Ten Years... and here we are one year short of 2014 and the BC Liberals have been bumping our MSP Premiums up since 2010.

Where's the missing Money Christy?  Four years worth.

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January 2013  Auditor General John Doyle:  Health Funding Explained

 

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Who was the Best Government for BC since 1987?

 Check out Will McMartin over at the Tyee...... with his Post in April of 2009.

Facts not Fiction

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More Math from 2004    should be used in 2013     "We have increased health funding by nearly $6,000 per minute" - Kathrine Whittred

BC Liberal Fiction not Fact

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Weekend Reading material on MSP Premiums in 1992 $s

Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Alberta and British Columbia: The Role of Sub-National Politics 1992 - 2002*

Daniel Cohn, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science
Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia 

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"Trutch" we never Trusted. How about Truce, Christy?

 What's in a name eh......    Names of landmarks have been changed across British Columbia like Chinaman Lake to Chunamun Lake and Boss Lake (Uranium Fame $30 million worth) to Bosk Lake.

A BC Government Website likes to hang onto the old names database, by listing off their "Alias", like it was a crime, a fraud and to a large degree, they were.   If Grandpa called the best fishing hole in British Columbia "Rum Cache", don't look for it on the map, the name is now Cicuta Lake, south-west of Vanderhoof, well before you reach the Nechako Reservoir.



Christy Clark is the MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey, although you'd never know it (RossK...... ). Within the next 33 days, before she leaves her three Offices as Premier of British Columbia, perhaps she would consider putting pen to paper and ask Vancouver's Mayor Gregor Robertson to delete the street called Trutch.    Doyle Street?

And please Christy, no more of your pandering towards specific groupings for votes with a Street name.


92% of 100% Reserve land was put aside for the 1% like Trutch, by Trutch, for Trutch!

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Land policy under Colonial B.C. 1850 - 1871

The first Indian (First Nation Land) Reserves were created in this period.  These reserves were located on southern Vancouver Island, the Fraser Valley, the Fraser Canyon, Kamloops, the Nicola Valley, the Okanagan,  and the Shuswap Lake areas.  Most of these were set up by Sir James Douglas in the early 1860's.

Douglas' reserve policy generally allowed Indians to select as much land as they wanted.  In 1861 Douglas directed the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, who had responsibility for laying out these early reserves, to "take measures to .... for marking out distinctly, the Indian Reserves throughout the Colony".  He added that "the extent that the Indian Reserves to be defined" was to be "as they may be pointed out by the native themselves".

This policy was dramatically reversed in 1864 - 1865 by Joseph Trutch.  As head of the colonial Department of Lands and Works, Trutch initiated a policy of reduction of the Douglas' reserves, of reluctance to allot additional reserves, and of non-recognition of the Indian's aboriginal claim  (native title).

An example of Trutch's policy of reduction can be seen along the Thompson River.  The Indians of Kamloops, Neskainlith and Shuswap Lake originally held a reserve along the north bank of the South Thompson River from Kamloops to Shuswap Lake.  This included Little Shuswap Lake and areas around Adams Lake.  In 1866 these reserves were "adjusted" by Trutch by reducing them to approximately their present size.

This policy was extended to the Fraser Valley in 1867.  It is difficult to get precise information on the location and size of the present reserves in the Fraser Valley are only remnants of the original reserves.

To learn more about these early "cut-offs" and other land grievances in the 1850 -1871 period, see the article, "Joseph Trutch and Indian Land Policy"  in B.C. Studies  (1971 - 72) by Robin Fisher.

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CBC Lede: Sticker campaign targets Trutch Street signs

..... He (Trutch) also made sure Indian reserves were small, quickly overturning the generous and inclusive decisions of his colonial predecessor, Governor James Douglas.

"He reduced the reserves that Douglas had allowed for by 92% and changed the laws so that a Sto:lo family could only occupy about 10 acres of land," says Kluckner.
Trutch went on to be the first lieutenant-governor of B.C. in 1871, when the province decided to join Confederation.

"His policies and the policies of the government of the time were perfectly in keeping with serving the needs of the British government,” says documentary filmmaker Vince Hemingson.  .......