Ghost Towns and Drowned Towns of West Kootenay Outdoor Essentials full of scenic photography

full of scenic photography

For twenty years John Aitchison has been traveling the world to film wildlife for a variety of international TV shows

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sign and the animals that made them

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Ghost Towns and Drowned Towns of West Kootenay Outdoor Essentials full of scenic photographyThese are the stories of more than 50 relics of the West Kootenay. Arrowhead, Beaton and Needles are among the towns that were drowned. Waneta is a power dam; Jersey City was auctioned. Comaplix died one fiery night; Cody, Three Forks, Poplar, Waterloo, Goldfields, Gerrard, Brooklyn, Cascade and a host of others vanished. Leaning headboards in smothered cemeteries and cow parsnip covering the ruins of homes proclaim that people once lived in these and