hi thanks for joining today i'm just outside of my british columbia and i don't know what this is
but it looked abandoned and cool so it looked like it was worth an explore let's go
two deer right there a whole bunch of old crumbling footings rusted out
this goes under and in between
although i'm not sure it goes anywhere so
it does look very cool
old rusted out
see it's the rebar there concrete some old
rusted steel there this is right on the side of the highway
which is why i stopped but it looks like it's been long abandoned
this section here the concrete's caved in so i'm gonna watch my footing
some sort of circular area in the center
all sorts of pilings
when i get home i'm going to have to do a bit more digging for you guys and find out what this was
as usual it's attracted a whole bunch of graffiti
well there's more up here
whatever it is hasn't been used for a while
those foundations are pretty crumbled oh i guess i'm up top where i was before
there's that little area we saw with the doorway down below
let's keep going on the other side over here there's another structure
or remains let's see if i can get to it from here too
there i see something down there so note to self next time read the sign first there's a historic
marker across the street that talks about the saint eugene mine that was built in the late 1800s
and a number of the buildings
that were sorry crunch crunch and a number of the buildings that were constructed around it
and again i'll double check but this may be the remains of that st eugene mine
another little building over here tucked away
the saint eugene mine dates back to 1893 when rich galena deposits were discovered on the edge of
moyi lake a local first nations man took some of it to father nicholas coccola who was head of the
nearby saint eugene mission when samples were sent to spokane washington for testing they discovered
that the ore contained high percentages of silver claims were staked but in 1895 father kokola sold
his portion of the property to a mining syndicate called the saint eugene consolidated mining
company he took his share of the prophets and used it to construct a hospital and the saint eugene
church in the nearby town of moyie miners and other fortune seekers began to rush to the area
and throughout the next decade the saint eugene mine produced more than 10 million dollars in ore
the mine operated on and off for the next 30 years and had its highest production between
1900 and 1911 and then again between 1926 and 1929 at one time it was one of the most
important producers in the entire province of british columbia supporting thousands of
residents in the nearby town of moyie with hundreds of them being employed at the mine
in the late 1920s much of the original deposits were exhausted but in its final
years they did manage to discover small deposits of gold by the 1930s the mine
was officially closed and the population of the town of moyie dwindled since the residents were
so dependent on the mind for work today moyie is another one of bc's lost ghost towns and all that
remains are a few dilapidated buildings and the foundations of the mind sitting along the roadside
you go there's the other foundations right there
it's very open not fenced in at all no sorts of no trespassing or private signs
watching my footing on these rocks loose rocks
some walls perfect canvas for these graffiti artists a little view from the top here
we have a ramp up there
at least it gives me a an excuse to enjoy the
afternoon sunshine beautiful reflection on the lake
some old abandoned junk i mean ruins
there's the one foundations over there and the other one is just over there about a hundred
yards away
shake the system that shakes you
cross canada tour 2021.
somebody's doing a cross canada tour whoever you are hope you're having a good tour
so not too much left of the old mine but it is interesting to see
that there's still some footprints remaining almost 100 years later
that's all for today thanks for joining remember to keep exploring