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September 4, 2006
History is alive all over Holloway Bar. Upwards of 300 Chinese miners lived and worked here in the 1870s during the area's heyday. The early miners left many signs that they'd been here - from the remnants of old wooden sluiceboxes to the opium pipe that Scott came across a few years ago. In some places you can see some of the thousands of tons of rock that were piled up in rows as part of the water-moving and mining process, entirely by hand.
September 11, 2006
Northern summers are extremely short. The placer gold mining season runs from late May or early June once the snow has melted and the water is flowing again until late September when it regularly freezes hard most nights. The leaves start to change colour in late August and by early September are painting this northern land with a brush of yellows, oranges and browns. In another couple of weeks the trees will be bare and the first snowfalls will be closer than ever.
September 18, 2006
Christina and her faithful dog Kay have found a little shelter from the bright sunlight deep in one of the old trenches dug by hand by the many Chinese workers that were in this valley back in the 1870's, at the height of the McDame Creek gold rush. There were many riches in this valley - such as the 73 ounce solid gold nugget that came from Centreville, just downstream, or the bucket-fulls of 1 to 3 ounce nuggets found on Christie's Lead on Snow Creek, just upstream from Holloway Bar. You can learn more about the mining ways of the old timers on these pages that document one of Scott's walkabouts.
September 25, 2006
Some people living in the Cassiar mountains are almost entirely self-sufficient. While we generate power on Holloway Bar, most of the food is brought in from nearby communities. However, some people, like Robert the Gardener, grow almost everything they need to survive. We visited Robert in early August to look at his crops - and as you can tell from this photo of one of his many home-made greenhouses, the greenery is abundant. Robert lives here year-round and the food he grows is essential to his survival. Look for a web story about Robert and his gardens in the coming months.
