Not one person in the footage was overweight.

People who refused to move, had their homes mysteriously go up in smoke when they were away. There is a very dark side to this story which conveniently is not being told here.

couple decades of history,,, nice people,, Beautiful beyond,, Hotsprings,,, Bears n Blueberries,,, Hiking n Helli,, Boating n Bikinis,, Fishing n Campfires,, Sportbike paradise,, and Valhalla is just around the corner... w Burton Beaton silverton ainsworth n so Much More... This has Been a Non paid for Advertisement from ... God Bless, B Nice n Love each other. Thank You So Freaking Much for All the Outstanding memories n Brand new video . Best of Success.

Just thinking how much longer this would take and how much more expensive it would be to move a townsite today v ok mpared ton1960s. Standing under a moving house while shifting into position on the foundation is not allowed today

what a great video. i sure liked seeing those old fords and internationals working.

GOD DAMN THE BC GOVERNMENTOF WAC BENNETT AND SOCIAL CREDIT AND CORRUPT BC HYDRO. THEY DESTROYED THE POOR PEOPLE WHO HAD BEAUTIFUL FARMS AND VALUABLE LAND THAT WAS STOLEN FROM THEM . THE CORRUPT BC GOVERNMENT DESTROYED LIVES AND WAS OUT-FOXED BY THE AMERICANS

I probably would have watched the entire video had it not been for that annoying, irritating background noise some one mistakes for music. 👎

It would be extremely myopic to assume the floods originated in the U.S. Look North, into British Columbia and you will find several large and very significant Valleys that run N to S. Most still have rivers but all of them clearly show benches indicating multiple lake bed levels and past flood events. Perhaps trigger event for lake Missoulla came from a failure further up the Columbia/East Kootenay watershed.

🎷They sold us down the river with the new High Arrow dam! 🎻music.kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZqkXoSJfNdkeMk&feature=share The High Arrow had to be renamed because a song about how the Canadians got screwed over by the Columbia River Treaty started getting popular in protest and was becoming an embarrassment to politicians of the time. Try writing a song with Keenleyside in the chorus.

Thanks for the video.

To cap it all off, as the families that were forced out were leaving, the government set their homes on fire, traumatizing the children. This could be done without backlash because of the relative remoteness. BC Hydro also promised a bridge where the Needles ferry is today.

Thank you for sharing! I’m visiting Nakusp this summer and sure I will see the river a little differently now!!

Audio is terrible, but an interesting story. Thank you.

Maybe one day solar power will be enough and all these dams could be removed and maybe the salmon would return

My grandma grew up up between the dam and syringa creek park. I remember swimming in the lake and could see the old road about 10 feet deep. Last year me and my son went up there and the water level was so low we walked along that road and could still see rock pathways and foundation stones.

Complainers don't like the use of dams for electricity production. I used to visit the rustic hotspring pools at Halcyon... before recently being commodified as a resort.

People were much more likely to sacrifice for the greater good back then without needing something for themselves......I believe the word is Patriotism

People were simply in the way 😢

Wild! It's our third year in Burton. So much amazing farmland was lost to the dam. It's a shame. The area is a jewel though, and lots of families are moving here.

What a sad tale

Mid 90's I worked at a mill outside Valemont, recovering wood and they still had some of the large equipment on site from the work here

shameful

I first dicovered the Kootenays in Dec. of 1962 . Love the area

Was there then

Love the old footage !

My Father worked on that dam. Thanks for the video

Quite simple, whoever manages to catch the chicken will win some kind of prize.

I'd love to know what that chicken catching event was all about

Was watching to see if Ruth Orcutt's Percheron's were featured anywhere but didn't look like it.

great footage with the Community hall in the background and all the houses on Maple and Spruce. at 3:44 it almost looks like our house, white on up the hill, in the background. Not sure as don't know if it was up then.

We live in Fauquier, and I wonder where this house is? We love this village soo much. Aware of a lot of pain and misery for the people who were displaced and lost the homes they loved.

Very interesting Lorne!