Lol, it's fine! But if you don't feel safe that's okay too. Remember though how long that tunnel has been closed with no highway crews maintaining it. Considering the short time that anyone goes in there, I'm sure it'll be fine.
I still go into spelunk for missed history items. Still many to be found. No Tommy knockers thus far. It is dangerous even for experienced cavers. The expansion seasons are when it is most active and deadly.
if you go to the south end of the china bar tunnel you can see the old (1930's) cariboo highway wall that would have been built along the side of the road...about 20' down (found a 7-up pop can there dating from the early 60's)
Great video & drone footage you put together here . If you travel Northbound on the old Fraser canyon highway towards Lady Franklen rock , there are 2 tunnels there . I've been to both many times . Also at 16:12 behind that old abandoned trailer there is a short trail that leads down to a memorial . This is the exact place where Melonie Carpenters body was discovered after she was abducted from her work place in surrey , murdered and then dumped here at this memorial in January 1995 . Pretty chilling to stand there and take it all in
Thx fire rescue the wet cold spring sure was nice July and august looking quite dry trudolfs arson season could begin everyone look alive keep an eye on the back roads whos coming and going climate activists are actually a thing sadly
I first moved to Hope in 1948, I used to catch the school bus that came from Alexandria Lodge just a ways from the bridge. I well remember road trips into the Interior and crossing that bridge. I like to tell people " I was raised beyond Hope , close to Hell's Gate"
really hey? anything noteworthy come to mind? i thought the 2011 was worse after briefly watching this. i guess there was just more cameras. i can imagine the police were pretty brutal with no cameras around.
It's the final game of the Trophy Finals! - The oddball game 7 that decides who takes all today/tonight. And to just lose that Grand Trophy to the opposing team - especially after coming this far into the Sports Trophy Championships is just too much for the fans to bear! Only compounded by the alcohol coursing through the people's bodies and impeding their ability to process their actions properly. Not to mention that year marks the sports team's special occasional year (I.E., an anniversary). - And it's at the home team's ice rink compounded by a shutout from the visiting team - which adds more insult to injury. So... what better way to vent out one's frustration and rage... than to destroy stuff? And by stuff, I mean anything - and I mean literally anything within one's view and reach? Including overhead power lines, traffic lights on suspension poles, overhead flag poles on highrise buildings, etc. Not only that, those enraged people feel the need to find someone to engage in fights with to relieve the rage from within them after what they just bore witness to. So, why not try this strategy to keep everybody's moods in check: First, clear the streets of everything and anything that can be broken, thrown, or used as a weapon (I don't care how big or small that "thing" is, people get creative - one way or another). Next, vendors should only serve beverages in plastic containers, so there's no broken glass or bottles to step on. Third, use undercover officers so you blend in with the crowd and arrest unruly "fans" with the element of surprise. This is the strategy La Crosse Wisconsin police used to keep canoe race riots from erupting again. - And you certainly don't want to pose as the "enemy" who incites the crowd. Canadians raise their children to play hockey; it's the country's national sport. And to lose that Stanley Cup is just too much for them to bear! Not only did the team lose, their fans turned into losers. Some enraged people *want to lay waste before leaving.* They start harrassing innocent people who are trying to clear out - it's like they *need a villain to fight.* Hooligans go from rocking vehicles... ...to turning them upside down and wrecking them. - That's a sure way to drive up anyone's insurance costs. Anything abandoned, unlocked, or unprotected on the open streets becomes these morons' idea of a "smashing" good time. After all, *what better way to show team support than to foolishly wreck and char other peoples' stuff?* Officers converge on the scene hoping to dispand the reckless delinquients. But the sight of police uniforms doesn't wash away the sea of fan jerseys. Officer on bullhorn: Disperse immediately! If you don't you may be arrested or subject to other police action. It looks like lawmen will have to kick some tails! And when clubs don't make a dent, they let loose with rubber rounds and tear gas. The maniacs scatter at the sound of the blast. But there's still plenty of drunks left behind. At this point, with this many angry people, you just have to clear the streets, like... how many people _can_ you arrest? All these people gathered to watch a game and have fun and by night, they all turn into criminals, because *their emotions got the better of them.*
0:24 Check your history, mate, the Trutch (Joseph & John) brothers contracted/built the *first and only* Alexandra bridge for the Cariboo Road in 1863. No earlier bridge was replaced, there had been a ferry service near the location. The Royal Engineers' involvement was limited to inspecting and accepting the bridge after doing a deflection test with a given burden/weight. The REs had been too busy building the road from Yale to "Pike's Riffle", south of Spuzzum the previous year, 1862. James Douglas was not Lieutenant Governor of BC, he was just Governor, separately, of the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia (which merged in 1866). It was Sir Joseph Trutch who later became Lieutenant Governor of BC, after he had negotiated the terms of BC to merge with Canada and become a province in 1871.
1:45 more corrections... the route from New Westminster (then the capital of BC) to the Cariboo was at first the so-called "Douglas route", alternating boats, wagons and wooden railways, first up Harrison Lake, then over land to Lillooet Lake, then over land to Anderson Lake, Seton Portage, and Seton Lake to Lillooet. That is why Lillooet lays claim to holding the "mile zero" marker for the Cariboo Road. But Douglas realized the cost and effort of all those ships and portages was no good... they really needed to pack wagons at Yale and go straight through, which is why the 1862/3 road was built through the Fraser Canyon at great expense. The extraordinary cost led to the merger of the BC and Vancouver Island colonies.
1:58 yes the Alexandra bridge was washed out during high flood waters in the 1890s, but by that point the Cariboo road had been broken up and large sections taken for the Canadian Pacific Railway the decade prior. No traffic used the bridge from the mid 1880s, only the odd local crossing, as all freight for the Cariboo went to Ashcroft by rail, and then by animal-powered express toward Barkerville.
2:09 the bridge cables were cut loose in the 1910s and the link was severed for over a decade. It was only during the mid 1920s, with the ever-increasing advent of the automobile, that highway-building became a thing. The 1926-completed bridge you show in this video stands on the original stone/mason work built in the 1860s, and in 1927 a cairn was installed, dedicated to the Royal Engineers (despite the fact they had no involvement in the construction of the original bridge).
I was told the rapids were caused when the railway was blasting rock and let it settle in the river. This of course crippled the steamboats who couldn't pass through the rapids. The "Hell's Gate" name came from an explorer who was frightened by the sheer size of the canyon.
The CN engineers mistakenly blasted too much away - resulting in the rocks narrowing the channel so much that it stopped the salmon run until they built the fish ladders along the side. I think it took about 50 years for them to build the fish ladders and attempt to restore the migration of the fish..
In your opinion, could the highway be widened and brought up to modern freeway standards? People are usually reticent because of nostalgia but the highway was clearly upgraded once before with these newer tunnels in the 1960s.
I believe that the guy who was reported as "shot in the head" was at the corner of Robson and Bute. He was hit with a rubber bullet fired by the riot squad which hit the ground and bounced up into his face.
That was amazing! My grandfather was crew for construction of the 3rd version (extant) Alexandra bridge. I had no idea there was such relics. Am I to understand that as a child you were driven over the grown over road?
As a child I could see what remained of the old road from the newer road across the Fraser, especially from the orange Alexandra Bridge in use today. The area shown in the video was not as overgrown and the old road was easier to see. I believe you can still see small portions of the old road if you look North from the sidewalk mid deck on the newer orange Alexandra bridge. My mother often told the story how scared she was when her family drove the older road on their move from Montreal to BC in the 1950's.
