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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Women.... Driving Trucks...... Pulling Trailers!
We started off our day with a good breakfast of bacon, sausage, eggs, home fries and some heavenly Blueberry pancakes. We headed out, with the first 250 KM of highway being a section we had already travelled once. About 40 KM before we got to our cut off I suggested that I finally try driving the truck and trailer. I have had several month of close observation, so I figured it was time to take the wheel!
Frances was thinking the same thing. I drove the rest of the way to Jade City, our destination for the day. I figured I was on a roll so I parked the trailer too! Look out now I’m ready to roll.
We checked out the 2 Jade stores in Jade city and.....of course bought some Jade. By the way Jade city has a population of 13.
There was free RV parking behind the store in a nice little campground, with picnic tables and fire pits.
At 7:00 we went to see a movie about Polar Jade mining and processing. There was also a movie about the “Grand Canyon of Canada” or the Stickine Canyon and the goats that live on the shear, near vertical cliffs along it’s edge. The last movie was about the Ghost town of Cassiar. It was an Asbestos mining town which was closed down in 1992. At one time it was a thriving community of 3000 people with a church, a school, hospital, arena, pool, curling rink and stores all provided by the company. When the scare of the health hazards of asbestos diminished the need for asbestos, workers went in to work one day and were told their jobs were gone and they had a certain length of time to leave the town. Some of the equipment and buildings were auctioned off and the rest removed or demolished. Today all that remains are the church and arena and the asbestos tailings piles. The community has been chained off so no one can go in.
Frances was thinking the same thing. I drove the rest of the way to Jade City, our destination for the day. I figured I was on a roll so I parked the trailer too! Look out now I’m ready to roll.
We checked out the 2 Jade stores in Jade city and.....of course bought some Jade. By the way Jade city has a population of 13.
There was free RV parking behind the store in a nice little campground, with picnic tables and fire pits.
At 7:00 we went to see a movie about Polar Jade mining and processing. There was also a movie about the “Grand Canyon of Canada” or the Stickine Canyon and the goats that live on the shear, near vertical cliffs along it’s edge. The last movie was about the Ghost town of Cassiar. It was an Asbestos mining town which was closed down in 1992. At one time it was a thriving community of 3000 people with a church, a school, hospital, arena, pool, curling rink and stores all provided by the company. When the scare of the health hazards of asbestos diminished the need for asbestos, workers went in to work one day and were told their jobs were gone and they had a certain length of time to leave the town. Some of the equipment and buildings were auctioned off and the rest removed or demolished. Today all that remains are the church and arena and the asbestos tailings piles. The community has been chained off so no one can go in.