Bralorne: The Richest Gold Mine i...
Bralorne: The Richest Gold Mine in Canada

Canuckly by nyubi

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Four point two million ounces of gold. That's what came out of one narrow stretch of mountain, a hundred and thirty kilometres up a dirt road from Lillooet β€” enough to make it, at its peak, the richest gold mine in Canada. But it didn't start with a stampede. It started with one man, alone, mining by hand for eleven straight years. In this episode, we trace the second gold rush: from a solitary prospector's shovel to a company town with a 4,000-square-foot dance floor built in the middle of the Great Depression, through a bitter fraud lawsuit and a difficult wartime chapter, to the ghost town β€” and quiet modern revival β€” you can drive out and stand inside today.

πŸŽ™οΈ Canuckly S02E15 β€” "Bralorne: The Richest Gold Mine in Canada"

  • Cold Open β€” 4.2 Million Ounces, Once the Richest in Canada
  • Two Rushes, Forty Years Apart
  • Β ...Β 
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Bralorne gold mine historyRichest gold mine in CanadaPioneer Mine Bridge RiverBC ghost town BralorneCadwallader Creek gold rushBralorne Pioneer MuseumGold Bridge British ColumbiaHurley River Forestry RoadBC mining company town historyJapanese Canadian internment Bridge River
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