Gold Trails and Ghost Towns

CHBC Official Description: The smallest incorporated city in Canada, Greenwood is also known as one of the last two great mining towns. It contained one of the largest smelters in the British Empire.

CHBC Official Description: This town almost became a ghost town a mere sixteen weeks after its heyday, but it refused to die despite being hit by flood and fire.

CHBC Official Desscription: Bill Barlee takes you home to Cascade City, a town where he spent his youth and tells of a large cache of silver.

CHBC Official Description: The construction of the Cariboo Road is examined. This engineering marvel, which was carved from the walls of Fraser Canyon, provided miners with a safer route to their riches.

CHBC Official Description: Bill and Mike leave B.C. for the Milk River Country of Southern Alberta. The badlands are the sources for several interesting stories.

CHBC Official Description: The Chinese miners were famous for their skills as placer miners. They reworked areas left by white prospectors and didn't miss much gold.

CHBC Official Description: Unbelievable riches in silver produced some of the classic towns of the era. ""Cayuse Brown"" and ""The Yellow Kid"" are just two of the characters Bill brings back to life, along with the story of the Golden Wedge Treasure.

A look at the history of the now extinct railway in B.C.'s southern interior and at the life of Andrew McCulloch, the man who masterminded the construction of the line and especially the building of the tunnels and huge trestles.

This story takes place in Western Ferry County and Eastern Okanogan County in Washington State. Ferry was known as the toughest town this side of Hell. The area was home to some amazing characters.

It's known as the oldest mining town in the West Kootenay. The miners were attracted by the silver, lead and zinc ore that was so plentiful. Characters like "Let'er Go Gallagher" all make up the story of Ainsworth on Kootenay Lake.

Gold was discovered in this area on the western side of the Rockies in 1863. The find was substantial enough to spur the building of the Dewdney Trail. Trouble between the miners and local Indians brought Sam Steele and The Northwest Mounted Police into the region.

The Sullivan Mine gets most of the attention as the richest silver mine in the world, but Moyie has many other fascinating stories. Among them how a Catholic priest was involved in a silver find in order to build a new church.

Not much remains of this once wealthy mining town that had the reputation of being one of the toughest mining towns of the Pacific Slope, and it may hide some riches yet.