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Never to be forgotten in Greenwood BC

Posted by Jewel Creek on November 11, 2019

8.5 km east of Greenwood BC, across from the Phoenix open pit mine that was closed again in 1976, now a ghost town, stands a WW1 monument, a Cenotaph, which is a Greek word for empty tomb, one of the only remaining structures left from what once was a booming mining town that had been incorporated in 1898.

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Mother load of a vintage collection

Posted by Jewel Creek on October 30, 2019

One of our favorite spots to look around was an old dairy farm in Abbotsford British Columbia, it was like going back in time. Grandma and Grumpa's; these two characters had been collecting items forever as they managed to overfill multiple large barns and outbuildings with everything you could possibly imagine...

Leaving the Ratrace in search of treasures.

Posted by Jewel Creek on October 25, 2019

So there we were sitting in traffic on our 3 hour drive to get to work, suddenly it dawned on us, it’s time to leave the city now and pursue a different lifestyle.