Talk:Minto City

Wooden TUDOR arch?

(sfs if that you?) I remember the mill buildings overshooting hte road, but maybe I was too young to recall if there was any conscious design. I know the hotel had a sort-of-Tudor theme, maybe Big Bill applied it across the board in his model townsite, or at least in his formal buidings. I dunno, I remember it being pretty industrial; maybe it was Wayside or Congress I'm remembering, though...but they don't have the bluff face I can see in my mind's eye. I think this is better said as being along the Bridge River Road or Carpenter Lake Road or Road 40, which are its modern appelations; and in fact the Mission Mountain Road as a term ran only over the mountain, and was called for most of its length the Bridge River Road, i.e. before the "New Road" down the Canyon in '55 or whatever it was; if I put that, my mistake; Road 40 doesn't yet have an article, it should; it's referred to as Highway 40 even though it's not (in the hope, I suppose, that it'll get paved by doing so....). Pics of the Minto mine buildings would be huge to get; in the family collections I've only got some banal shots of the post-flood ruins, although in the family 8mm collection there were bits shot from the car, driving through the mine; night shots as I remember them, though maybe that's my own memories and not film; but I've never been able to get my brother to digitize them all....Details of the Minto Japanese community are avaialble in Dr. Miyazaki's My Sixty Years in Canada, which I don't have handy but most major BC university libraries and the VPL have it....Skookum1 (talk) 03:53, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Arch Nemesis

Yup, skook, there was a wooden tudor arch at Minto. I saw a pic of it once. I thought it was most incongruous, but intriguing. Pictures of the post indust waste called Carpenter Lake would be good. You can update the road reference. I only know it as the MIssion Mtn road. Maps would be good lhere, as would a large article on Bralorne, the real centre of the area. I am too young to remember it. sfs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 14:38, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Two Door Ford

the pic of the mill is complete with a two door ford :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 00:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Bridge River gold camp and towns

The reason there's no Bralorne article yet, i.e. by me, is maybe because I've been daunted by the complexities; I know the town/area history too well, and am wary of over-writing at the same time as "winging it" too much, as I haven't had the source books handy for some time now. I can start stubs for Bralorne and Pioneer....and also, once started, Brexton and Ogden and certain other places; but it's not just the town articles, is it? The mines themselves, and the various personalities....this is probably the one area of Wikipedia where I most could have contributed something if I hadn't been so distracted by so many interesting things elsewhere. Also, I've been pondering the title for the Bridge River goldfields, which were not really a Bridge River Gold Rush although the 1870s-1900s there are sometimes describedd that way, and the Yalakom excitement of '40 is also referred to as the Yalakom Gold Rush even though only one company and set of claims were involved (they were, true, in a rush to stake, to keep others out...). The provgov MINFILE system uses "Bridge River gold camp" which I've seen before; I'm thinking the way to organize mining-town articles and mine articles is via mining district, in this case the Bridge River Mining District as a sudistrict of the Lillooet Mining District. Anyway the reason the Brarlorne article etc aren't here yet is because a "nest" of articles is needed, not just the one; I think Bradian someone may have already penned though (someone's always promoting it...). More later, just thoughts/excuses for now and maybe I'll take this up at WikiProject Mining, i.e. organizing mine articles by mining district, and making mine per se articles distinct from the associated town articles also...Skookum1 (talk) 05:01, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Bralorne bugginess

Skook, with respect, perhaps you are overanalysing it. Let us start with a basic primer, which, in effect, what most wiki articles are. They are an abstract of a much larger idea, and if you want the various nitty gritty, further works are cited. How bout we start with the mine prospects, the dates, principal people, the three camps, extent of production and the years. Let us shoot for 200 lines. Isn't there a book on Bralorne mines. I have the touristy H. House guide here, which is quite detailed. sfs Fear Not ! Oh Strong one, I have started bralorne —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 23:01, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I have no books here that would help me do so; the definitive one is recent, The Great Years by Lewis Green, Tricouni 2000; the community/kitchen history Bridge River Gold by Emma de Hullu and Irene Cunningham and someone else (?) is thorough but very unorganized. There's chunks of info in The Newspapering Murrays (by their daughter Georgina Ke3ddell) and also in Tales from Seton Portage by Edwards. Also some in Halfway to the Goldfields by Lorraine harris and tidbits in the Decekber book on Pemberton adn the Ronayane book also, but not much. Only the Lewis Green book is properly researched and cited, though, and has lots of stock and mine-adeit/assay info too.Skookum1 (talk) 23:14, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

• Ancillary articles:
  • William G. Davidson (Big Bill)
  • Arthur Noel, Delina Noel
  • John Williams (miner)
  • Will Haylmore
  • Joseph Zotique "Lazack" Lajoie
  • David Sloan (mining entrepreneur), various mine/investor execes (see L. Green)
  • Brexton/(Fish Lake)
  • Bradian
  • Pioneer Mine, British Columbia
  • Ogden, British Columbia (NB Ogden City is diff, an old name for Seymour Arm on Shuswap Lake)
  • Bralorne Mines Inc.
  • Mines Hotel
  • Congress, British Columbia (or just a mine article, wasn't a community)
  • Wayside, British Columbia (ditto)
  • Yalakom Gold Rush (as dubbed in various write-ups even though only Bralorne Mines were involved)

More later...I guess I'll continue this on the Talk:Bralorne page.Skookum1 (talk) 23:14, 15 May 2008 (UTC)