I almost skipped the video cause your map at the beginning showed you going through the Stewart/Cassiar, but it sounds like you are taking the Alaska Highway and going right by my place in Fort St. John. (Probably already passed) I’ve been to Huble Homestead and both ends of the portage. I’ve been known to camp at Crooked River Provincial Park (Bear Lake) and have thought about hiking it. There are no big hills. I’ll watch for your next video.
Yes, the northern loop through BC. Going up the Alaska highway into the yukon and then down through the cassiar highway. This is the first in the series. Thanks for watching. Cheers
First time seeing one of your videos. Seems like you have a geology background? Description of the grain grinding wheel is very exacting. Partially metaphosed limestone/marble and bits of mica. Was it biotite or muscovite. It’s hard to see just how dark the mica is. Although, I’d have to say biotite? Also, one of my relatives worked for Southern California Edison and was a manager in their IT department, and he specifically was in charge of the program they used for running their power outages and other customer related problems. He traveled back to Montreal frequently because that’s where the software came from that their system used. You’re so right, they really did know how to handle every aspect of hydroelectric power and distribution. Also, I really enjoyed your explanation of why they’re going with long distance DC and having to raise the voltage to such incredibly high levels, which makes it much more efficient than AC. Raising the voltage to such high levels, reduces the amperage, which also greatly reduces the resistance in the transmission cables. I looked over your previous videos and I will definitely be watching them and subscribing as well. Great trip to Quebec. I also watched your video on The Whitepass & Yukon Railway, which I have ridden on before. You really caught the essence of it!👍
In the early days of electric railways, ac was chosen in many cases over dc. Many ac powered electric locomotives at the time used dc series traction motors (the only dc motors which will run on ac), but brush sparking at the commutator was a problem, worse with ac than dc due to the fluctation of the current. One solution was to generate ac at a lower frequency; 16 2/3 hz in Europe and 25 hz in North America. That may be the reason power was generated at that frequency. 60 hz proved to be better for household and industrial use, however.
I say wake a full canada usa train track for tourism. now a days I think some one would spend 2 weeks on a round trip !!! across both canada and usa. but have 2 tracks 1 for summer and 1 for summer. further north will have delays on winter weather !!! 20 trains total would work nice !!! 10k per 2 round trip !!! and each stops about every 4-6 hrs !!! for delays but not out sides these times if you miss you stuff should be at next stop !!! the trans canada wher I live is 5 rhs away and damn those moose are hugh. and hell highay ontario is a fun ride. and seing some old ancient titans were awesome !!!
Hi, southern Québec here. You really should slow down a bit. The Laurentians are remnants of a Himalayan style mountain chain created by the Grenville orogeny. That's about 1 billion years ago. How come they are not completely flat?
My friend's dad was a manager at the Marmora Mine and obtained some tire inner tubes from the big dump trucks. All the kids at the cottage/ lake loved bouncing on them and they made wonderful fun in the water. We could get 12 or more kids on them as they were huge inner tubes. I loved growing up in the 70's, so much outdoor fun.
Those wouldn't be commutator bars, those are the rotor coils fed with dc current through slip rings from the exciter. The three-phase ac is generated on the stator coils.
Did a bunch of door security work in this dam, Mica dam, Bennett Dam etc, we were fortunate enough to be able to in all the places most can’t in the dams, pretty amazing seeing all the tunnels
I worked at the Marmora Mines as a summer student for 2 summers 1974 and 1975. I really enjoyed my job. My father and brother worked full time at the mines. The money was fabulous back in that time frame.
Hi I've been looking for a geologist to check out some rocks /fossils that I have found some fossils are from the crutasious period and one is from the shallow sea once covering Ontario .I found a fossilized sea shell that resembles a qua hog that is found in salt water ,now this ancient sea shell was found along the shores of lake Huron !😏 that is one specimen that I have found !
Read the Ecology Of British Columbia. BC is actually not part of the Ancient Laurentian land mass the rest of North America sits on. Fantastic read of the geological process of British Columbia. It is geologically the most diverse province in Canada 🇨🇦
You all need to wake 😂up, the earth has not I repeat has not bin here for not even a million years let alone the bullshit your shoveling, hangman is comin down and you don't have very long. thx ps your stooped
I can remember taking the honds 3 wheelers down a cpl hundred feet on the shelfs. They had boudlers to block the decent we went around them it was sketchy for sure.
Hello !great video and info 🫡‼️🇨🇦. I’m on Lake Huron a block from the beach. On my property I have huge rock piles from the Scottish settlers. Most are fossils and crystals. Found a couple Yooperlite, lightning stone and agate 🥰
I wonder what caused the fire in that mine, did they say? And that photo of that underground quartz vein, it was HUGE! Those rocks outside @27:00 look like conglomerate. I don't know why but I've always liked conglomerates. Great video & much better!. Thank you.
@9:22 that uranium looks like limestone to me. Again I wished that you might slow down while we look at the specimens. Also. folks can pause videos on signs and read them if you take a little time recording these.
Ya, not allowed to burst your bubble . Nothing is even close to a million years old . Ya, no truth allowed , or would and could explain . Sorry big brother free speach is s no go
