Showing BC to the World!

Digging for agates in the hills north and above Cheslatta Lake, which is near Burns Lake in Central British Columbia, Canada. Very exciting if you are a rockhound as these are as big as your head (and some bigger). Not pretty and polished like the ones found in rivers as these are in situ. Check out the BC Lapidary website for info about "Summer Camp 2007", where there will be fieldtrips to this and other locations.

Filmed in Britannia Beach:

"Dark Angel" (2000) TV Series
"Hope Island" (1999) TV Series
"Kingdom Hospital" (2004) TV Series
"Taken" (2002) TV Series
"X Files, The" (1993) TV Series
Britannia Beach (2002) (TV)
Camouflage (2001/I)
Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006) (TV)
Luna: Spirit of the Whale (2007) (TV)
Red Scorpion 2 (1994)
Scarecrow and The Rainbow Kid, The (1993)
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
We're No Angels (1989)

Filmed in Bowen Island:

American Gothic (1988)
Another Stakeout (1993)
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Fog, The (2005)
Food of the Gods, The (1976)
Hitchhiker, The (2006)
Paper Moon Affair (2005)
Rugged Rich and the Ona Ona (2004)
Russia House, The (1990)
Tale of Two Sisters, A (2008)
Trap, The (1966)
Wicker Man, The (2006)

Mushrooms of British Columbia. BC has hundreds of naturally growing mushrooms. Many are picked fro commercial markets and consumption.

Here is a government report from 2003

UFO observed by family in Port Alberni, BC, Canada (15-08-2005, CH TV)

White Rock
By a Little Pebble
Florence Griffin
1921

This poem, actually composed by Florence Griffin, was third to appear in the souvenir programs that celebrated the dedication of the Peace Arch September 6, 1921. From the Peace Arch, White Rock is but a two-mile leisurely walk along the sandy beach. The large white rock is still there.

“I want to go sailing,” said White Rock,
“Sailing over the sea.”
“Rocks can’t sail,” said his mother,
“You had better stay with me.”

“I’ve seen rocks sailing,” said White Rock,
“I watch them every day.”

Three Thousand Miles of Border Line
By Guy W. Bilsland

The Road Less Traveled
By Charles Hanson Towne
1940

In a purple and gold brochure celebrating the official opening of the King George VI Highway, held Wednesday, October 16, 1940 at Peace Arch Park’s international boundary, was an untitled poem. Edited, it was cast into verse form and given the title, “The Road Less Traveled.”

I like a road that wanders straight;
The King’s Highway is fair.

And lovely are the sheltered lanes
That take you here and there.

But best of all I love a road
That leads to God knows where.