Gold Trails and Ghost Towns

Mike and Bill explore this thriving town in the Boundary country and its colorful residents like "Volcanic Brown".

They built the railways, they mined gold, and they formed the merchant class of many communities, making some of them very wealthy.

1896 - The first year of the Klondike Gold rush. Men like Skukum Jim and Tagish Charlie made their fortunes before the rest of the world knew about the strike.

The entire town was virtually owned by Harris. His rise and fall parallelled the fate of the town in the silvery Slocan.

The adventures of this colorful character is explored, including the search for a mysterious river that ran yellow with gold!

More a story of a region than a town, Gold Trails examines the role this community played in B.C.'s early development.

A hard rock town where mines like the Mammoth and the Standard produced tons of silver ore and employed men like Big Pete Cafone, a giant among giants.

Better known as Soapy Smith, the leader of a gang that took over a town and owned it and its people until the gang's untimely demise.

This trail across the Southern Interior of B.C. was the freeway to some of the richest ore bodies in the province. Hedley, Phoenix, and Rossland sprang up along its route.

The story of how a man of the cloth with a deadly aim put an end to a robbery spree that began in New Hazelton.

Did Spanish conquistadors make their way to the Interior of B.C. in their search for the legendary City of Gold? This question is examined on Gold Trails and Ghost Towns.

"Hands Up!" It was a phrase that was coined by the legendary train robber who made life miserable for the C.P.R.

One of the world's oldest surviving companies; responsible for the exploration of most of Canada. Gold Trails looks at its famous posts in B.C.