This is where my life long passion and obsession with gold all started. My dad took me here for my first time when I was 8, and have loved gold ever since. And now I'm getting to share my passion with my 2 boys ❤️❤️
Your son broke me up when he showed the mosquito netting over the entry door of one of the buildings. I have come up from the southern 48 and fished up above Winnipeg several times and the mosquitos resembled our turkeys for size! And they were vicious! But GREAT fishing.
These past few days of ECONOMIC INSTABILITY, INFLATION and RECESSION watching my portfolio decline is very disheartening… Holding doesn't really profit much. Any idea on how to earn better on the short run?
Hey Dan I grew up in Quesnel. We used to go our there all the time for class trips.ised to be 5.00 a pan to pan for gold and the was usually about a gram in there. This was 35 yrs ago mind you lol. Lots of memories there have fun!!!
I think Dan should visit Cerro Gordo in California I'd love to see those two red heads explore the mine. I know it's a silver mine but I think Dan would love it
I watch that show all the time. Too bad about the flash flood that took out the road going up to Cerro Gordo. I’m sure Heavy D will help him fix the road. He has his excavator, after all. Lol
This was our family stomping ground, long before the restoration. As a teen, friends and I We're walking through the cemetery and I fell through one and broke through a coffin. It has since been restored.😄 Thanks for sharing an update. I actually met a number of the old timers when I was very young.
Yup. I grew up in Wells which is a village close to Barkerville. Spent a lot of time in the hills around Barkerville. I never knew how much gold was pulled out of Barker's claim so I am impressed.
I loved this video. The only time I made it up to Barkerville from the lower mainland was on a school trip in middle school. It's nice to see just how little it has changed. Similar to the Burnaby Village Museum.
I was there in 1972…..but, I did not receive as much information about the town as you offered to the viewers Plus I was there for almost 6 hours. It was amazing then, and thanks to your video it looks even more interesting now. Thank you .
Seeing Barkerville's Chinatown brought memories back for me. My wife's grandparents emigrated from China to California and Oregon. Her paternal first came over when he was 12, worked for a couple years around Sacramento, then went back to China for a wife... During his first time over here, he developed a reputation for honesty, and with some prospecting and mining still ongoing at the time, he was tasked with bringing in their take from the miners ... nobody expecting a Chinese kid to be carrying gold with him. Barkerville sounds like a great place to visit for a day or three.
I well remember being in Barkerville.. in 1958, Dan... it was just opening up at that time.. Not certain if you are that old.. but Century Sam was here [he was our neighbour in Courtenay at the time.. He took my mother up on stage at the Theatre Royal and gave her a 'difficult' time... all in jest though... Sid Williams was a real character. The town was not much in those days... only a very few refurbished buildings... but the seeds were there
I live just up the road in Prince George, I never get tired of going to Barkerville, weather it’s taking in the historic town, snowmobiling, or riding ATV’s. My work even takes me underground in the modern mines just over (under) the hills of Barkerville.
I haven't visited there since I was a teenager travelling with my parents. My Grandfather Thomas Parsons of Victoria donated a lot of the tools and equipment of the cabinet shop to Barkerville. It had belonged to my greatgrandfather Alfred Henry Knott who made player pianos back East early last century. We had a Knott player piano while I was young but my parents sold it , apparently to Spirit Lake Lodge , which was buried in the mud flows when Mt St Helens went up. I do have memories of one of us kids pumping the pedals and the other pretending to play. Wish we still had it.
What a great living museum. Always a treat to visit them. This one seems very interactive. Nice. We have one near me in the UK called Beamish. It has a mine of black gold (coal) that visitors can go down as well as 2 historically recreated towns, a brewery and working trams from the late 18's/early 19 hundreds. Great fun
We (finally) had the pleasure to visit Barkerville in 2020 (Sept). we met Mrs. Hodgkinson and she was a wealth of information for the area (she referred to my Sister and Brother in law as "Overlanders" because they were visiting from Ontario). We were there right between the 1st and 2nd wave of Covid so not everything was open to see, however it was a fantastic and memorable trip for sure. I Highly Recommend it.
I went to Barkerville in the 70s when it was reopened I fell for a dancing girl and saw the Ghost of the Hanging Judge Mathieu Beggbee and got one of the biggest nugget panned in 10 years I was told. The only stop you missed Dan was the Prostitutes House. I dated one of the Actresses
My Dad (RIP dad) took us here when we were kids back in the 90s. An experience I will never forget. It was like going back in time. The ladies there even scolded us for not having sleeves covering our arms 😀
I miss Barkerville has been 21 years since last vist. Yes I was 12 years old and didn't appreciate it as much as I would today. But now I have kids and need a second black and white photo to update the wall. Very much so wish I was a little older to be able to remember most of the stuff I saw/heard. All I do know is that is where I first learned to pan for gold and definitely started my gold fever. That and on the same trip went to Atlin bc and also went to Skagway. And saw the Graves from the famous chillkoot avalanche. And held a 30oz nugget. Good stuff love it. Thanks Dan for the childhood memories!
Absolutely love that country, I grew up ranching near Alexis creek..going to rodeo's and stampedes, haying, fishing monster rainbow trout, trapping beaver, visiting Barkerville ! Easily one of my favorite places on this earth. Thank you Dan, your knowledge and enthusiasm is so very enjoyable to behold.
Dan we recently went on vacation out west and I made sure to visit Silverton Colorado!!! If you haven’t heard it’s a small little place near Durango Colorado and the operation that’s there in Silverton is quite historic and valuable to mining history. Absolutely neat area and during the great depression it was one of the largest employers for people in what’s known as the four corners region.
I was just in Comstock last weekend. This kind of history is awesome to me. I'm telling ya, you need to check out a channel called Ghost Town Living and go visit Cero Gordo
This is a great video. Loving the history of the old Gold towns. Just like Brent's ghost town. Dan. We would love to see more ghost towns and history. Regards South Africa 🇿🇦.
I got to visit Barkerville a few times as a kid and seeing this brought back so many memories. Truly a great experience to visit, and now I want to go again.
Awesome video and very informative! I was there in 1980 with my family. We rented the "saloon". It was such a blast panning that I still do it whenever I can.
Me too.!! At about 50' feet in depth, I was also wondering about the 2' feet of blue clay ('false bedrock' harpan) they had to get (break) through to get down to the 'real bedrock' which held a fortune in gold sitting right on top of it.!!
🌟Awesome - I love it💖 Thanks to remaining memories of a past life as a florist in a gold rush town/camp in central California, I always felt right at home whenever I would go prospecting or visit former mining towns, document the gold rush history and its Swiss/German origins, or work as a horticultural photographer in this lifetime. Can hardly wait to go back in time again this coming Sunday 🥰
Great Video Dan! I went to Barkerville as Kid. This would be a great line of video's for you! Lot's of gold towns in BC. Once you finish in the Cariboo, you can do the the Kootenay's & Sandon, New Denver & Silverton perhaps or other towns with Gold History!
What a fun day! Ya know, I'm sure we've got similar "museum"/"attractions" in the Sierra foothills down here in Californ-Eye-Ay!. Might be time to saddle-up my little 2-seat roadster (since I sold my Harley😥). I think I can still manage to blow some cobwebs out of my brain AND learn a bit more about our Gold Rush history! Thanks for the inspiration! 💛
i remember in grade 5 going to barkerville from the former trading capital of new caledonia, ft. st. james. the fort is still there on beautiful stuart lake. the area has lots of camping.
This is where my life long passion and obsession with gold all started. My dad took me here for my first time when I was 8, and have loved gold ever since. And now I'm getting to share my passion with my 2 boys ❤️❤️
That's dope! I wish my girls liked panning. Keep trying. They will regret it when they call themselves "old"
Dude same. I'm 30 now.
Pation. For Gold at 8 years old...
Late bloomer uh? The grand daughters do recognize the actual gold at an early age... It's in our DNA.
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Your son broke me up when he showed the mosquito netting over the entry door of one of the buildings. I have come up from the southern 48 and fished up above Winnipeg several times and the mosquitos resembled our turkeys for size! And they were vicious! But GREAT fishing.
These past few days of ECONOMIC INSTABILITY, INFLATION and RECESSION watching my portfolio decline is very disheartening… Holding doesn't really profit much. Any idea on how to earn better on the short run?
@@edwardpreston2098~I do not know, maybe buy gold, silver, or platinum, 'or' buy stock shares in a uranium company.?
You could mistake Dan for one of the guides. He he. Interesting content. And as always, Dan is a great teacher. Great video.
It's great to see some of these old place's are kept in great condition and the passion the people keep it alive thank you
places* not "place's"
Hey Dan I grew up in Quesnel. We used to go our there all the time for class trips.ised to be 5.00 a pan to pan for gold and the was usually about a gram in there. This was 35 yrs ago mind you lol. Lots of memories there have fun!!!
I think Dan should visit Cerro Gordo in California I'd love to see those two red heads explore the mine. I know it's a silver mine but I think Dan would love it
I watch that show all the time. Too bad about the flash flood that took out the road going up to Cerro Gordo. I’m sure Heavy D will help him fix the road. He has his excavator, after all. Lol
@@yosemitesam6945 Oh I didnt know the road is damaged. When did that happend?
That would be super fun !
@@fragmina729 immediately after heavy D and team left
Yes!!!
This was our family stomping ground, long before the restoration.
As a teen, friends and I
We're walking through the cemetery and I fell through one and broke through a coffin. It has since been restored.😄
Thanks for sharing an update. I actually met a number of the old timers when I was very young.
Cool!
pretty cool that you got to meet one of the original inhabitants:) Hope they were not too crushed by that unexpected encounter.
Yup. I grew up in Wells which is a village close to Barkerville. Spent a lot of time in the hills around Barkerville. I never knew how much gold was pulled out of Barker's claim so I am impressed.
Love this guy, cool human being. Thanks for sharing this with all of us. The history of BC is cool. Thanks Dan.
I loved this video. The only time I made it up to Barkerville from the lower mainland was on a school trip in middle school. It's nice to see just how little it has changed. Similar to the Burnaby Village Museum.
I was there in 1972…..but, I did not receive as much information about the town as you offered to the viewers Plus I was there for almost 6 hours. It was amazing then, and thanks to your video it looks even more interesting now. Thank you .
That is one massive piece of gold in the pan at 0:21😯 Love you adventures Dan⛏🏴
Dan Hurd in Barkerville. Who'd a thunk it!! Maybe he should become an ambassador.
Hello Dan Hurd, from the Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪 watup errrybody✊
This was great Dan, reminds me of my country we have little towns like this all over New Zealand, keep up the good work Dan and family 😁
I got super carsick on the way there as a kid, and will forever remember it as barfer-ville
Love when Dan posts during the week. 🙌🙌
Seeing Barkerville's Chinatown brought memories back for me. My wife's grandparents emigrated from China to California and Oregon. Her paternal first came over when he was 12, worked for a couple years around Sacramento, then went back to China for a wife...
During his first time over here, he developed a reputation for honesty, and with some prospecting and mining still ongoing at the time, he was tasked with bringing in their take from the miners ... nobody expecting a Chinese kid to be carrying gold with him.
Barkerville sounds like a great place to visit for a day or three.
Wow what a gem we have here in Canada!!! Thank you for sharing this Dan as now I have added it to my family's exploration bucket list.
Love the great interactions with the interpreters, horse carriage, and blacksmith. Looks like a fun day trip
Barkerville is amazing and I'm glad to see it's still as amazing as it was when I went many years ago.
I well remember being in Barkerville.. in 1958, Dan... it was just opening up at that time.. Not certain if you are that old.. but Century Sam was here [he was our neighbour in Courtenay at the time.. He took my mother up on stage at the Theatre Royal and gave her a 'difficult' time... all in jest though... Sid Williams was a real character.
The town was not much in those days... only a very few refurbished buildings... but the seeds were there
I live just up the road in Prince George, I never get tired of going to Barkerville, weather it’s taking in the historic town, snowmobiling, or riding ATV’s. My work even takes me underground in the modern mines just over (under) the hills of Barkerville.
I haven't visited there since I was a teenager travelling with my parents. My Grandfather Thomas Parsons of Victoria donated a lot of the tools and equipment of the cabinet shop to Barkerville. It had belonged to my greatgrandfather Alfred Henry Knott who made player pianos back East early last century. We had a Knott player piano while I was young but my parents sold it , apparently to Spirit Lake Lodge , which was buried in the mud flows when Mt St Helens went up. I do have memories of one of us kids pumping the pedals and the other pretending to play. Wish we still had it.
Fabolous to know
That's awesome. There was a another carpenter there, Johnny Knott, who built the Barkerville Hotel. Another relative I assume?
I went here as a child in a school field trip... One of my most memorable field trips indeed, seeing all these buildings again is a trip.
What a wonderful historical place to visit! So glad you made a video of your visit.
What a great living museum. Always a treat to visit them. This one seems very interactive. Nice. We have one near me in the UK called Beamish. It has a mine of black gold (coal) that visitors can go down as well as 2 historically recreated towns, a brewery and working trams from the late 18's/early 19 hundreds. Great fun
In Texas black gold is oil 😊
Great job Dan! And family! Love the collaboration interaction with the re-in actors. Great show. Great for tourism
We (finally) had the pleasure to visit Barkerville in 2020 (Sept). we met Mrs. Hodgkinson and she was a wealth of information for the area (she referred to my Sister and Brother in law as "Overlanders" because they were visiting from Ontario). We were there right between the 1st and 2nd wave of Covid so not everything was open to see, however it was a fantastic and memorable trip for sure. I Highly Recommend it.
That tour guide lady is a riot. Thank you for showing us this wonderful piece of history.
Places like this with living history are so important.
I went to Barkerville in the 70s when it was reopened I fell for a dancing girl and saw the Ghost of the Hanging Judge Mathieu Beggbee and got one of the biggest nugget panned in 10 years I was told.
The only stop you missed Dan was the Prostitutes House. I dated one of the Actresses
Thank you so much Dan. This is an awesome video.
Cheers from Texas
I still recall doing an elementary school project on Barkerville, as well as getting to visit it!
I love Barkerville so much, I'm up in Dawson Creek and every sumer we drive through and stop here ❤❤ amazing history in this town!!
Been watching your videos all day.. Nice to take a break and then binge watch one of your favourite content creators. Love what you do
thank you so much for this video. I am disabled and cannot do a tour like this, it was very interesting. I love history. Great video.
My Dad (RIP dad) took us here when we were kids back in the 90s. An experience I will never forget. It was like going back in time. The ladies there even scolded us for not having sleeves covering our arms 😀
I think this is my new favourite video. Love Barkerville!
I miss Barkerville has been 21 years since last vist. Yes I was 12 years old and didn't appreciate it as much as I would today. But now I have kids and need a second black and white photo to update the wall. Very much so wish I was a little older to be able to remember most of the stuff I saw/heard. All I do know is that is where I first learned to pan for gold and definitely started my gold fever. That and on the same trip went to Atlin bc and also went to Skagway. And saw the Graves from the famous chillkoot avalanche. And held a 30oz nugget. Good stuff love it. Thanks Dan for the childhood memories!
That amazing green pine forest background is breathtaking!
been on that stagecoach a couple times myself. thanks for bringing back the memories
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Absolutely love that country, I grew up ranching near Alexis creek..going to rodeo's and stampedes, haying, fishing monster rainbow trout, trapping beaver, visiting Barkerville !
Easily one of my favorite places on this earth. Thank you Dan, your knowledge and enthusiasm is so very enjoyable to behold.
Hello from Barcelona. I had no clue about the story of that town. Great video.
DAN wow beautiful town great slice of history. It was awesome to see your family! From your faithful home bound fan thanks.
Great video Dan. Thanks 🍻👍
It was great to see the whole family.
Well done all. Great to see all of the Hurd clan out enjoying a trip into history! Thank you
Great work on camera shots and editing.
Dan we recently went on vacation out west and I made sure to visit Silverton Colorado!!! If you haven’t heard it’s a small little place near Durango Colorado and the operation that’s there in Silverton is quite historic and valuable to mining history. Absolutely neat area and during the great depression it was one of the largest employers for people in what’s known as the four corners region.
Thanks for the excellent bonus video! Wonderful wholesome educational content every time!!!
this reminds me of greenfield village in Dearborn Michigan. my home state! wonderful outside museum!
Renaissance fair of the north....Glad you got to film!! Good stuff!
This is my favorite video, so far from you. Keep up the great work, you can definitely tell your are great educator.
I love Barkerville
I was just in Comstock last weekend. This kind of history is awesome to me. I'm telling ya, you need to check out a channel called Ghost Town Living and go visit Cero Gordo
More videos...🙂...Thank you!
Really enjoyed this informative video! Watched the whole thing while at work lol. Thank you Dan for keeping my spirits high!
This is a great video. Loving the history of the old Gold towns. Just like Brent's ghost town.
Dan. We would love to see more ghost towns and history.
Regards South Africa 🇿🇦.
I really enjoyed this video. Such nuggets...
What a fantastic place full of history! That must of been insane finding all that gold WOW
Nothing but smiles.. love your videos...
That is just awesome! I need to pack the wife up, and go see this place first hand. Thanks for sharing Dan.
Thank you so much Dan! That was awesome. 👀 from N Carolina,
Awesome great tour! Beautiful old history town! Wanna go there someday in future !
This was a lot of fun! A definite destination on my book!
That was a fun and educational trip with you and your son. Love your channel ❤️ Cheers from Parksville B.C.
That was a fun adventure hope you do more of this kinda history lesson showcase stuff I loved it
Somewhere in that town was a home with a cement bathtub in it built by my granddad. Our family and Billy's go way back.
I got to visit Barkerville a few times as a kid and seeing this brought back so many memories. Truly a great experience to visit, and now I want to go again.
Love the video 😁 reminded me bit of Sovereign Hill in Victoria Australia.
What an awesome place, thank you for showing us around such a beautiful place. God bless, take care and thank you for sharing 🙏👍👏❤️
What a fantastic vid, thanks Dan, it really does give an insight to what was happening 150 years ago,
This is such a beautiful setting.
I haven't been to Barkerville since I was about 7, I'd like to check it out again some day.
looks fantastic Dan looks great fun i love learning more about gold history great content
I received my slab of Ocean picture stone today. It’s beautiful!! Thanks a million
Awesome video and very informative! I was there in 1980 with my family. We rented the "saloon". It was such a blast panning that I still do it whenever I can.
I wonder how hard it was getting through that blue clay to the Mother Load ? But absolutely worth it. $42 millions worth.
Me too.!! At about 50' feet in depth, I was also wondering about the 2' feet of blue clay ('false bedrock' harpan) they had to get (break) through to get down to the 'real bedrock' which held a fortune in gold sitting right on top of it.!!
Can't wait to see Cerro Gordo built back up like this!
Evan, so happy too see you taking interest in the family business of Prospecting!
Was great having you and you family around barkerville. Hope you all come back soon and visit us in the House Hotel Saloon.
Hope to be back soon.
Very very interesting Dan Hurd. Enjoyed watching this video 👌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
These videos are amazing just love them the History the Gold n Silver 👍💰💰💰😁
I visited barkerville when I was like 8 an loved it!! Such a gem of northern British Columbia love this video Dan!!
Loved your video! This place looks amazing! Thanks so much for sharing your adventures!
🌟Awesome - I love it💖
Thanks to remaining memories of a past life as a florist in a gold rush town/camp in central California, I always felt right at home whenever I would go prospecting or visit former mining towns, document the gold rush history and its Swiss/German origins, or work as a horticultural photographer in this lifetime.
Can hardly wait to go back in time again this coming Sunday 🥰
If only we could find the cut like this!!
With a name and his discovery, there has to be a song about Billy Barker! 🤘
PioneerPauly and Dan Hurd both released a video today. It’s a good day!
Beautiful town and people! The history and experience was so nice of you to share with us! Thanks Dan and family for the awesome video!
Always Fun DAN!! Thx 4 Sharing!! Cheers JJ
Wonderfull.
Thanks for the video!
Continue your great work.
From Portugal
Great video Dan and Evan!!
Fantastically well put together video Dan. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
Great job Dan and great place thank you for sharing
Great Video Dan! I went to Barkerville as Kid. This would be a great line of video's for you! Lot's of gold towns in BC. Once you finish in the Cariboo, you can do the the Kootenay's & Sandon, New Denver & Silverton perhaps or other towns with Gold History!
...or also the Fort Steel historic gold town near Cranbrook, BC.
you should definitely go to Cerro Gordo mine. It was a silver mine but it's super interesting
Thanks Dan awesome video can't wait to see it in person
What a fun day! Ya know, I'm sure we've got similar "museum"/"attractions" in the Sierra foothills down here in Californ-Eye-Ay!.
Might be time to saddle-up my little 2-seat roadster (since I sold my Harley😥). I think I can still manage to blow some cobwebs out of my brain AND learn a bit more about our Gold Rush history!
Thanks for the inspiration! 💛
i remember in grade 5 going to barkerville from the former trading capital of new caledonia, ft. st. james. the fort is still there on beautiful stuart lake. the area has lots of camping.