Lost City Under Water. Adventure # 10

About 3 hours from Whistler B.C. we travel to a part of the province that has seemingly endless ghost towns. Some of these towns are completely abandoned leaving nothing behind but the shell of a previous life. Others are still home to a few residents living peaceful secluded lives. Everywhere you look there is something hidden in the woods, anything from old homes to old cars and abandoned mines. One town we stopped to see had been bought out by a power company and flooded taking the homes with it, but the city is still very much there to explore. Foundations, formations and hidden artifacts help map out the city along the lake bottom.
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[@calldon4688]

My, my how far you have come since these days my friend. This is where you began. Good job!!! I'm going to search out numbers one through nine, just to see them again.

[@barefootanimist]

Places like these are a humbling reminder that, whatever we may do to the planet, in its time, our impact will be erased, our presence forgotten, and nature will move forward as if we'd never existed...

[@barbfrank917]

Coastal Animist exactly what I wanted to say, but you had the perfect words. Dust to dust.

[@shawnmurphy2047]

Coastal Animist well put exactly I don’t buy into this global warming crap when mother nature is done with us we will know it fast

[@barefootanimist]

@@shawnmurphy2047 I accept that there are solar and other cycles at-play in the cooling and warming of the planet, and that they're going to happen whether we've had some small part in them or not. Look how many different "climate emergencies" have been claimed in the past fifty years: global cooling, ozone depletion, global warming, and climate change. What blows my mind is that "Planet of the Humans" shows all the ways in which "green energy" is as destructive as any other source, and costs more to produce less. We'd literally be better-off going back to small, agrarian, semi-nomadic, tribal lifestyles, but you'll rarely hear that suggested among most eco-preachers.

[@JPOwantstoknow65]

@@barefootanimist Yep, humans can neither create climate change, nor prevent it with "carbon credits" Latest scam is how C19 is creating positive benefits for the environment. Research UN Lockstep, Agenda 21 and 2030 and all the Sustainable Development bullshit. And the UN is actually the UC....United Corporations.

[@bratadette8603]

One of the lakes you passed is man made, hydro project, where that lake is used to be the best gathering and hunting place, my grandpa remembers it being called Minto. He used to guide with his grandparents…etc.

[@markbirchette8740]

Salutations from Utah! So very many forgotten places, people and things. A melancholy beauty in it's own way. That is why I enjoy urban exploration and the explorers who take nothing and destroy nothing. Only help places and folk's to be remembered. Cheers to you and Salute from this Army Veteran. ✌👣👣👣

[@Dargonkin527]

That was the coolest thing I've seen in awhile to find an old left behind vehicle pretty much returned to the earth but exactly how it was left undisturbed Fantastic find!!

[@shawnhampshirehick101]

GM truck👍 my kind of guy😄 Abandoned brothel 😍😄 your video's are awesome ( even for Canada😄) Thanks for the entertainment.👋

[@mattheaps1138]

Great video! I live in northern California, and there is an old ghost town under Folsom Lake called Mormon Island. They built the dam in 1955, we have had severe Droughts here and the level of the lake was way down in 2013, so I got to check out the old foundations! Keep up the good work.

[@jeffreybuse6814]

I live in South Carolina and I really enjoy these videos. It's like another world in your neck of the woods.

[@jomama5186]

Wow. How beautiful !!!

[@hdickenson6926]

------------spent alot of time there as a child my parents visited percy and hilda johnson in bralor4e we traveled from bridge river town it was is a hydro town we traveled to bralorne to stay with the johnsons they later moved to nanaimo on vancouver island and we moved to chemainus on vancouver island what a place as a child to grow up

[@prabirkumardey511]

To see all these rare vodeos it is a very awesome experience.

[@BB-tm7gx]

This is a great channel just found it . working my way through the vids thanks very much for UK

[@stacyschewalje7876]

Thanks for the awesome time on your video

[@aparson2967]

Thanks Dustin - Alaska is watching. My mom was born in BC and was hard as rye tack.

[@MrGixxer1300r]

You and your videos are very pleasant to watch. Keep making this great content

[@lasvegan7021]

So love watching your adventures. Keep them coming Dustin!

[@tinarowena]

Cool to see how nature takes it back. Awesome video!!

[@robheathcote8561]

another awesome vid, and full points for including your lady, good stuff mate

[@Destination_Adventure]

thank you

[@robheathcote8561]

+Dustin Porter no worries, have fun and stay safe

[@sheriherrick4420]

Just beautifully amazing! Love ALL your vids!

[@karengiorella2690]

Imagine that place at night? The stuff of horror stories in a different light. You've captured the areas beauty on this one. So interesting with the area's history. Ty again. Great video!

[@piperlynne1]

That bordello looked ready to collapse and that dirt road along the river looked pretty sketchy too. Great video!

[@tamanassman]

hahah the dirt road along the river is Provincial Road 40 aka the Lillooet-Pioneer Highway; it's the main road in the region. And yeah it IS sketchy...though being paved/widened this summer.

[@billyproctor9714]

If these wall could talk, maybe some of ancestors spent time upstairs?? My dad and I left Bralorne on horse back in the spring of 58, he had just gotten out of the Air force and was looking for a place to homestead. We arrived in Vanderhoof the end of Sept. First of many adventures for me threw the Chilcotin. Keep the faith, Billy

[@imsbsage8472]

I always love the sped up videos of you driving there!

[@HAZYFALKIRK]

This is the Brothel, "I hope I can get in there";)

[@jerredtoews9339]

Another eight years and yes you can

[@slammds15]

15:20 looks like an old thrasher. Great vid! They keep getting better and better!

[@albertstadt9853]

First time I've ever seen the inside of a brothel!😊

[@cerberus1364]

you said look at this Lake look at this River look at this mountain and then right after you got down the commercial popped up and said look at this cable bill LOL 🤣

[@ukeelady]

BC is a wealth of abandoned towns... underwater towns that were flooded by BC Hydro (Peace River, Mica Creek etc). Very cool to see!

[@frankdifabio6623]

Hey Dustin, another awesome trip. Love your style of filming and editing. Just keeps getting better and better. There you go again going up those crickity steps. Really thought you were not going to make up to the third floor. I think I'm a little jealous of you because of all the beautiful places you go. Philadelphia suburbs are nice but not that nice. Peace and be careful!

[@Destination_Adventure]

you can always hop on a plane and spend some time here in B.C.

[@frankdifabio6623]

+Dustin Porter I might take you up on it. We still need to work on getting you a drone to film all those great places from the air! Get a campaign together with your followers to contribute a little each . I'll be the first to donate. Keep it up Dustin

[@Destination_Adventure]

thank you so much for that support. Honestly that means a lot to me. My sister recommended i start up a kickstarter fund for it. Maybe i should.

[@frankdifabio6623]

+Dustin Porter If you do, you would have no problem with contributions. Seeing your passion with all you do on your adventures, it would be a great addition to your vids. Then we can work on your old Chevy. Lol. Again get the Kickstarter going and I'll have no problem helping out. Maybe a Phantom 3? Keep being cool!!!

[@raytru3191]

great video thank you looking forward to your next one

[@TheMjollnir67]

Some location you have there... you can imagine how cities/villages must look like years after some apocalypse...

[@reneboober7330]

Enjoying your videos. Just watched the Bradian video. Absolutely gorgeous sights. Stay safe.

[@bartobuilt2601]

Andrew is a Gem, I used to know him when he lived on the island :-)

[@blaineskelton2646]

Love your ethical character

[@ukeelady]

Nothing like fly fishing! Very cool :)

[@ihatedietcola7920]

Great video!!!!

[@lifewithconnie3738]

Ok. I know follow “forgotten bc”. Thanks for the heads up. And again, never heard of this place! How could I live in bc all my life and have missed so much

[@jlelliotton]

A lot of these small towns had “hotels” which were effectively brothels. Back in the early 1970s I had a cottage at McGillivray Falls and the town hall was formerly a brothel in the early 1900s.

[@asarubin-crump780]

Keep em coming! ive missed your videos. thanks for the extra long one!

[@billkellett9343]

As an historical note Minto was used during WW2' as an internment camp for Japanese Canadians after Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor in Dec. 1941. Sadly, there were numerous such camps throughout BC at this time period!

[@Destination_Adventure]

Yes that is correct. It seems that BC tries to hide that info a little bit but I should be including it in my videos.

[@jlelliotton]

In the 1970s I had a cottage at McGillivray Falls which was also a Japanese internment camp during the war. Several of the buildings from that time remained.

[@hoboonwheels9289]

Several interment camps in treed areas of Alberta too, Kanaskis area etc, German and Japanese.

[@OFCbigduke613]

Drone shots of the old flooded town would be cool.

[@SouthernOntarioSasquatch]

So great to find you! Loved this vid, and I look forward to following you on more of your adventures. Cheers!

[@dianne19610]

Great job!👍🏻

[@glenvanbavel2094]

Great video.

[@jlucasound]

@15:54 Porcelain Insulators. In northern New England you can find ones (intact sometimes) made out of glass. Some are blue (ish), some green, some clear. The porcelain ones are brown or white.

[@Dargonkin527]

in New Brunswick Canada there are lots of glass insulators plus the newer porcelain ones still left on the original telegraph poles that they were first used on, most running parallel with railroad tracks.

[@piersaffleck8592]

Dude sick ride.

[@brewilson7867]

Awesome ❤️

[@cmon7192]

Amazing discoveries.

[@russduffy3630]

very good Dustin keep doing what you are doing

[@Destination_Adventure]

thank you

[@russduffy3630]

Destination Adventure

[@Destination_Adventure]

thank you very much

[@derrickbullard8054]

Great upload !! Thanks for the video !!

[@danm874]

Dustin, your vid reminded me of one overgrown town North of Mobile, AL. About all you can see now are some curbs & the old jail, because it was concrete & steel. The other was just North of Panama City, Fl on the part of Deerpoint Lake, just North of the dam. Some of the concrete street markers are sticking out of the shallows. You might need to think about some safety lines, when walking on decade, crumbling floors. Could be terrible to get seriously injured in a remote spot.

[@monstarobinson1863]

guy's & gal's that was great. totally unsafe structure, but kinda spooky.

[@Chewanguy]

The machine at 15:20 is a what is left of a Binder, which cut crop (wheat ,barley or oats) then tied it into bundles, every little while they were dumped and stood up to dry.

[@erikletham4944]

love that country. we have a place out there, my grandma once lived in the town of minto.

[@Destination_Adventure]

that is really cool.

[@ParadoxdesignsOrg]

man, that third floor looked sketchy! nice trip though. thanks for taking us along!

[@Destination_Adventure]

ya i was a little nervous up there

[@kosh2001]

Interesting vid, thanks for sharing!

[@rickrayn]

A lot of these old buildings are crushed in the end by the snow. I used to do lots of mountainerring in the area. It is a great area.

[@tifaedgin3439]

I enjoy your videos of BC! I know it's not àbandonded but one of my ancestors helped design the parliament building and Empress Hotel in Victoria. Sir Francis Rattenbury

[@CoastalCruiseControl]

Another great vid!! Thanks!!

[@bonniekaye]

My husband and I love your vlogs! Can't wait for him to see this one! By the way... your girlfriend is so beautiful! She has the smile of an Angel! Thank you for sharing your adventures with us!

[@Destination_Adventure]

thank you so much. you gave her a great big smile with this comment

[@nickmad887]

thank you

[@etonchambers4872]

Hey dustin ! Gotta say i love your content ive watched all you videos its awesome to learn about the history of this province. Wanted to say you should come to Kelowna some time and do a video of the kettle valley railroad that was built in 1915. It stretches form castlegar all the way to hope but the best part is a 12 km stretch that is now a transformed hiking path with amazing views with trestles and tunnels. Love to show you around man cheers !

[@Destination_Adventure]

thank you very much. i think i remember reading something about that before. I'm gonna have to look into that a little more and come check it out.

[@gregc1462]

Love your vids !! Awesome stuff bro :)

[@dorisbilley8991]

My grandparents had their farm flooded,, it was a dam thing as well. Used to be the Saskatchewan river where Diefenbaker Lk now is.

[@phoenixsurvivor31]

Feb 9, 2024 Thx for the great videos , Dustin. Greetings from Bralorne. Love seeing your great shots of places I've visited over the years. Your visit to the whorehouse near Bralorne reminds me of a funny story my late neighbour Limey John told me. It seems one of the brothel ladies was charged with running a house of ill repute and fined five hundred dollars. She didn't much like that schemed of a way to get even. When time came to pay the fine she loaded up a wheel barrow with 50,000 pennies and marched into the magistrates office and deposited them on the floor there and said " there's your damn fine". Too funny , lol! There's so many stories of peoples antics in the old days when people had to entertain themselves. Pratical jokers around every corner😂

[@jamesbennett5189]

Love from Kamloops baby

[@johnstevenson9956]

Terrific as your videos are, don't risk your life to impress me! :-)

[@downhomesunset]

Thanx Justin! I will have to try to get some uploads of Crowsnest Pass up for you. Have you ever heard of the Frank Slide? Look it up, it's an interesting read. If you ever come ghost towning in southern Alberta let me know. I'll show you two some nice places with rich history!

[@derekyoung8312]

great vid

[@foghornleghorn8674]

Need to start checking those spots with a metal detector , old coins everywere

[@neilh6217]

I don't know if you have heard of this or been there eh As a boy scout we use to go to Barkerville, Quesnel Forks areas. However, it is the 2 different ghost Hamlets not towns? Maybe they were 60 years before I saw them in the early 80's. The road we used took us from Quesnel Forks to Yank's Peak. You will never see them if you go in winter or summer. The white blends the weathered wood and the foilage is a natural blind. Mere metres from the track are these gold rush building off small creeks feeding most likely Keithly creek feeding Caibou lake? not sure It is now riddled with forestry roads though it was/ is a route to Likely.... So a forestry service map book could be the ticket to uncover possibly literl ghost claim towns. Sadly people with no respect tore up floors and the area looking for the Chinese fortunes stashed as they did not trust the banking system. I remember being so amazed at these lives of the past. Once arriving on top of Yanks at the age of 13, I desided I was not going home. The view down the valley was calling my name, and I haven't been back since. I may never come back to civilization eh Bon Chance mon ami.

[@tamanassman]

the reason Pioneer has different foundations than Bradian is because it's much older, Pioneer got started in the 1910s, Bralorne (which includes Bradian) didn't get started until the 1920s; Bradian being "Third Townsite" didn't get built until much after 1st and 2nd Townsites and it was never a "town" but just a neighbourhood of Bralorne; specifically housing for young couples which is why all the units are so small they were never meant as full-fledged homes. One reason Pioneer faded out as a residential area after the mines closed is because it's very dark up in there in winter; also snowier and colder, and what remained of services in the Bralorne area was in 1st and 2nd Townsites (Pioneer is aka Fourth Townsite, after the mines were amalgamated) Just to be clear where it is, that whorehouse is below 1st Townsite in an area known as Ogden - a name that once appeared on maps and referred to private businesses which spring up just outside the Bralorne Mines Limited property line - this included the Mines Hotel and most of Ogden was before the Mines Hotel including the whorehouses, an automotive shop or two, maybe a grocery etc. There were also bars at Brexton/Fish Lake and likely another working girl or two; but nowhere on Bralorne Mines property. One of the whorehouses was "Zelda's" but I don't think that's it as there's an old news item about it getting a landslide into its front door and wiping it out; maybe Zelda rebuilt (other whorehouses btw were at one time in Gold Bridge, I think Bill Davidson, owner of Minto, accommodated some discreetly within Minto somewhere, maybe over at Grey Rock (a neighbourhood of Minto close to the greyrock bluffs just south of it). Most of Minto was wiped out by a huge debris flow down Gun Creek in the '40s so there weren't houses standing when the inundation happened; the Minto City Hotel was moved before the indundation and became the Gold Bridge Hotel, on the same site as today's hotel of that name. Recommend you pick up and read Lewis Green's "The Great Years: Gold Mining in the Bridge River Valley" (Tricouni Books, 2000) before you head back up into that country again.....

[@RBA1891]

Crapp 8 years ago. Wow. Time flies.

[@takingbackthehammer6527]

There is a resort town in lake Minnewanka in Banff national park

[@burymedeep-be7dm]

Lime green paint was readily available back then for interior walls!

[@jamesbennett5189]

Nothing wrong with old chevy! My 84 halfton on 35s would say

[@archean432]

omg this guy's awesome.

[@CrownMuzik]

Pink walls, to set the mooood! 😂

[@TheAstralBunny]

that is very very cool! we live in BC as well and have you ever heard of Old Arrow Head? :) it was a town that was affected by the flooding of the arrow lakes (Columbia River)! I haven't been there in years but when the water is low you can find things! :)

[@Destination_Adventure]

i actually just recently heard of it. May check it out in the future, but its a far drive if i don't know for sure if the lake is low or not.

[@dorisbilley8991]

I wonder if that could have been a gravesite where the stones were surrounding it? Interesting.

[@kimsieben9502]

6:12 "pretty dirty...." its a brothel!!

[@littledenny12]

was waiting !!! bout time dude...where dim ghost ;)

[@7389ma]

These homes where people’s hopes and dreams

[@chriskystoneadventures]

👍👍

[@dorisbilley8991]

I wonder if the people on the homes hauled water to their homes or there was a cistern some sort of system. To just think of the people who lived and worked in that area and how different to today.

[@shawnhampshirehick101]

Maybe we'll or wells. Good thought no one else asks about. Never noticed plumbing ( now I will👍) Cheers.👋

[@steveallday8675]

How do you find something like that in the middle of nowhere those rocks you thought was a garden is a grave site were some one was buried

[@ianclough9857]

Very interesting Dude . The " Forced " Ghost towns from acquisition are interesting . There are a couple that have been flooded here in Victoria (aus) that can only be accessed in Drought . Similar to what you are looking at , one of them has visible street layout + old railway station e.c.t . its all interesting! Anyways love your vids mate , nice to see a bit of Canada! . Good job done!

[@Destination_Adventure]

thanks man, that town your talking about sounds way cool. id love to check that out, too bad its on the opposite side of the world lol.

[@adelefriedlich2306]

Your videos are great. Hi from New Zealand 😃.

[@Destination_Adventure]

thank you very much

[@rileygoodenough5000]

what song is that for the intro? killer bassline

[@candymcclure2476]

I had a Toyota FJ Cruiser '07 4x 4 greatest adventure car/truck for me. Traded it in 2019, sorry ever since.

[@trenadubois]

your doing great! I hate twitter I don't understand it lol love your videos

[@Destination_Adventure]

thank you

[@ericjohnson2543]

Does anyone know if someone has ever inquired about getting the salvage rights to get the wood from those old abandon buildings or are they off limits for history reasons. It's a shame all that wood will just rot away. Good video, thank you.

[@wisheduknew294]

So how did that area floods so bad that it destroyed everything?

[@Positive-Energy-Somali]

Do fish late hours that is when the big fish 🐟 come out to feed

[@dennisschnobrich9288]

What year was this town flooded?

[@shalynbyrne7283]

From what I have been told, the power company gave the townspeople very little time, like maybe an hour, to pack their stuff and leave. Might not be true but thats what I have been told growing up in that area. Very sad either way.

[@tamanassman]

most of the folks in Minto were already long-gone by the time the flooding happened.....could be the ranches and homesteaders along the valley floor didn't get all that much warning though an hour seems unlikely; they'd all have known of the dam going up and knew what was coming; I know I met a scion of the Rexmount Ranch who was still bitter about losing it.

[@fairlanejimmy]

I was told that the houses in Bradian were moved there from minto!

[@Destination_Adventure]

it is very possible that many of them were

[@tamanassman]

No. They were custom-built by the Bralorne Mines Company to house newly-married/newly-babed miners and were built a LONG time before (what was left of) Minto was drowned.

[@taylorstidham2709]

The engine block is an old 6 cylinder diesel engine from a tractor

[@LisatheGreatest]

Mining companies are so destructive

[@WalkHard1]

Dude just saw our future..