The Ghost Town is Port Essington, this is one of my favourite places to explore. This place was a booming town during the mid 1800’s and early 1900’s until the grand trunk railway came through and cut off Port Essington to make Prince Rupert the major city and Port. SO MUCH HISTORY HERE!!! Love the video
Just want to say, Dustin, that I’ve always enjoyed your videos. Love seeing the beautiful places you go and fun things you do, but really it’s your positive outlook, great humor, and respect for your surroundings that cheers me up every time. Plus, your production values are top-notch. Thanks, and keep it up, man.
Hey man, my partner and I own heafty sailboat on Vancouver Island and cruise the coast of BC. We also have a passion for abandoned things, and can easily teach you tons of skills (ocean fishing/crabbing, foraging, timing low and high tides, etc) in a less commercial way than a tour boat. We would love to get in contact!
Shout out to you Dustin from Northern Vancouver Island. Huge fan of your content and motto! "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints." Great motto to live by man cheers
Rupert when the sun comes out is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Late winter/early spring when it's warm and bright, the sun hits the last of the snow on the peaks of forested mountains that slope down to the crystal clear sea... Ya, beauty spot. And as you've seen, there's almost nowhere better for seafood.
Temperate-rainforest damp is very hard on wood. Take care even on solid-looking boardwalks! Around oceans, check the tide tables to avoid standing or scraping your boat.
Another great video Dustin and enjoying seeing you break out the Dunlops again. would be good to see you trying them with your pants over the boots instead of tucking them in. Maybe in your next video you can wear them that way. I prefer them with my pants over the boots.
Exploring abandoned stuff, getting out on the motorboat and catching enough for a good few meals - All in all, a very good day matey! A pleasure watching as always
Another amazing video Dustin. Love it when you find abandoned places like that. Even more impressive was that walkway was still solid! And the fishing with West Coast Renegade was excellent. You are one lucky guy! Thanks for the great videos!
I so loved the close up of the Bald Eagle, they are magnificent Birds, in the fall I love going up too a small Illinois town and watch them fly in too their winter nesting area and too watch them swoop down too the Mississippi River too catch fish.
Fantastic video buddy. I love the the out-of-the-way places, and your attitude is awesome, keep doing what you do, man! If you adventure east to Cochrane AB, i'll buy you a pint (and that's no empty gesture from a Scottish guy! Love the videos!
The first one is North Pacific Cannery South of Port Edwards. YOU can drive to this one as I did in 1982 and in 1998. In 1982 it was fairly open to explore and I met the caretaker who took me on a tour of the place. It was for years a Clover Leaf brand cannery and in the day made and repaired their own fishing vessels. They had their own dry dock system where they had big boat dollies which were place on the dry dock and lowered into the water. The fishing boat would maneuver itself over the dolly and then lifted up onto the dock and maneuvered around to be worked on. They also had one of the largest bandsaws I ever saw. It was about 2 stories high and the table stayed stationary but the saw itself was on trunnions and could be tilted two ways allowing boat planks to be sawn as necessary. Inside the cannery they also had an Iron Chink ( a terrible racist name) which was used to can the fish instead of hiring oriental people in the cannery. This facility and the one further South is an easy drive.
I live on Vancouver Island and this was cool and funny ...I think I’m going to subscribe ! I think your little boat trip was epic ...so lucky you had a small small boat when the tide went out 🤣 the history is awesome 👍🏼
Being from Texas, it's highly unlikely that I will ever get the chance to experience any of the places you explore. I'd be a whole lot more upset about it if your channel wasn't here because this is the next best thing to being there myself. Thank you so much! Great video!
Please do more on what went on your video today . So much wonderful beauty the old cannery was amazing I’m watching from Arizona . I grew up in Canada many many years ago and always wanted to go home again . Thank you and please keep your quest going .
What can we do to increase your Subscribers??? You have the B.E.S.T. exploration videos on CZcams! Excellent job on the content, presentation and editing! Thank you! 👏👏👏
I love your adventures. I'm painting a project so I don't always do thumbs up and comment. I enjoy adventuring too. I need to get out in my new yard in the country on adventures here! It's great all the quirky zigzaging we do along the way. That's what makes it most enjoyable. Thanks for sharing. Awesome!
Rock Cod is pretty good eating too. Loved this destination....always find the ones where there is abandoned but fixable housing, interesting. Those little stilt homes were awesome.
It really is kind of sad that a lot of the industry that helped build BC, and what made people move here in the first place; has been destroyed either by legislation, fights over land rights and environmental orders. It's almost gotten to the point that the three things that made BC a force to be reckoned with (mining, fishing, logging) have all been abandoned because there's too much governmental red tape to deal with to do any of those things.
Isn't that the truth! I remember in the 1970's all the Canneries from Richmond & up the coast. And all the mills along the Fraser River & the Island. Your right about how BC was built on all these. My grand mother worked in the cannery in Richmond back in the 1970's. And of coarse all the red tape & environmental standards now a days. All these things of yesteryear. Of course now a days is construction industry booming as the govt keeps bring in more people, more memories of places are torn down to put up a parking lot. And of coarse housing. Sad indeed. But I guess that's what is called progress.
Wow really? That's crazy! I was wondering why there is SOOOO much cool abandoned stuff up there. I live in a rather domesticated city (lol) here in Ohio USA so we don't really have much like that to explore. Even on lake Erie.... All that property is big money.
@@TheGibsOfTheTube A person could probably make a small fortune reclaiming all the abandoned iron and steel left over from the mining towns (that have since disappeared) but many times, the equipment was just abandoned because it was too difficult or too expensive to haul back down the mountain. I can think of numerous abandoned mines where there is probably thousands of tons of steel from the old machinery left behind. Tweakers and scavengers have come in and taken all the copper wiring, but some of the bases these old generators and stuff sat on weigh enormous amounts. Not to mention all the stuff left behind by the people. The old Jersey townsite here in southern BC has an old "dump".... and yes, people dumped their garbage there. But when a car stopped running, that's where it went. Fridges, stoves.... TV's.... all sorts of 50's paraphernalia (much of which has weathered but survives) left to rot. I know of a '61 Impala Sport coupe and a '58 GMC APACHE truck abandoned there. If a person could find a way to drag them off the mountain.....
@@That_AMC_Guy wow that's incredible! I wonder really though how worth it scrapping the steel would be. You'd probably need a barge to transport anything if you can even get that to it. Then dragging it off the mountain somehow. I suppose if you had a small outfit with a few people and the right equipment you could make some money. I'd wouldn't be surprised though if the province (I believe that would be your governing body?) Wouldn grant you privileges to remove it in order to "clean up" the land just because of red tape and potential insurance drama. Sad though because "we" brought the stuff, trashed the landscape with equipment and tailings sometimes wrecking water supplies... Then just leave everything behind like a kid leaving their messy room.
@@TheGibsOfTheTube Oh yeah. That's why nobody does it. The expense involved in cleaning all that crap up would cost probably 10x than what you'd get for scrap.
what an amazing place! what happened to that little town/village that it's now abandoned? just the thought that those homes were once lived in and that long wooden walkway was so beautiful. thanks for the adventure!
The clarity in your videos is absolutely top notch. I think National Geographic needs to hire you.. I am serious. Wowsa. Also we're the boardwalks in place due to all the rain they get.. and/or high tides? Thinking more rainfall as I don't think things would be that lush if it was all ocean water?? Thank you Dustin!
There's a place called Doreen. Historic town located by the train tracks between terrace and kitwanga. Look it up. Might be a tough place to get too. Cheers. Big fan of your content
Those were about my favorite size halibut for eating. Great video! I wish you could have gone into those old buildings, they looked like they were in decent shape overall. Lastly, change your out take, it should be "Take nothing but pictures and fish..."
It would have been nice if instead of just walking near all of those old buildings, that you actually went in to some of them to attempt some exploration to show to us. Maybe next time?
I was really tempted, trust me. I just stumbled across this place tho, so I didn’t know if they were actually abandoned, or just neglected. I didn’t want to go into someone’s property. I may end up back in that area tho, so I’ll see if o can get permission to do some further exploring:)
The Ghost Town is Port Essington, this is one of my favourite places to explore. This place was a booming town during the mid 1800’s and early 1900’s until the grand trunk railway came through and cut off Port Essington to make Prince Rupert the major city and Port. SO MUCH HISTORY HERE!!! Love the video
So are the house there still owned and used? Can you just go explore around or is it private?
doent it have a place full of cow skulls and bones and what not?
North Pacific Cannery in Port Edward
Watching all that food on the side of the boardwalk was awesome. A foragers marketplace
Just want to say, Dustin, that I’ve always enjoyed your videos. Love seeing the beautiful places you go and fun things you do, but really it’s your positive outlook, great humor, and respect for your surroundings that cheers me up every time. Plus, your production values are top-notch. Thanks, and keep it up, man.
Ditto.. I agree 150%. Dustin is Great. I am always shocked at his finds!
If those buildings and old boats could talk, what a story! Great Video and looked like some great fishing. Thank you for the adventure!
North Pacific cannery would've probably let you wander around had you stopped in. Lotta the OG equipment is still there. Lotta gems in general
Drove by your outfit(recognized your dingy) about 5 am Wednesday morning on the drive out for a service call to Prince Rupert
Keep up the good work
Prince rupert is where I was born and did half of my growing up...thank you so much for the memories of my childhood
Hey man, my partner and I own heafty sailboat on Vancouver Island and cruise the coast of BC. We also have a passion for abandoned things, and can easily teach you tons of skills (ocean fishing/crabbing, foraging, timing low and high tides, etc) in a less commercial way than a tour boat. We would love to get in contact!
Fantastic shots of old fishing boats, one of your best adventures !
Shout out to you Dustin from Northern Vancouver Island. Huge fan of your content and motto! "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints." Great motto to live by man cheers
Rupert when the sun comes out is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Late winter/early spring when it's warm and bright, the sun hits the last of the snow on the peaks of forested mountains that slope down to the crystal clear sea... Ya, beauty spot. And as you've seen, there's almost nowhere better for seafood.
Dustin, I remember you from when we were young. Just want to say that your videos are wicked, keep up the good work man!
What a gem you found. You are the top adventurer for BC
Absolutely lovely place, this makes my heart explode with wanderlust
Some of these houses look in pretty good shape!! Great vid!
Temperate-rainforest damp is very hard on wood. Take care even on solid-looking boardwalks! Around oceans, check the tide tables to avoid standing or scraping your boat.
Keep the Adventures coming . Love watching them.
Now that’s a happy fish tale ! Awesome ! Way to go West Coast Renegade crew. 👍
Awesome video, thank you. God I love our province!
This video makes me long for the North Coast. I lived in Rupert 20 years ago when my kids were little, great video.
Another great video Dustin and enjoying seeing you break out the Dunlops again. would be good to see you trying them with your pants over the boots instead of tucking them in. Maybe in your next video you can wear them that way. I prefer them with my pants over the boots.
Wow what I would give just to see the sites that you are showing thank you so much👍
Those rockfish look wild!
I used to live up in Rupert (78) Such a beautiful country (sometimes, even when it's raining) I'm really enjoying your video's.
Exploring abandoned stuff, getting out on the motorboat and catching enough for a good few meals - All in all, a very good day matey! A pleasure watching as always
Another amazing video Dustin. Love it when you find abandoned places like that. Even more impressive was that walkway was still solid! And the fishing with West Coast Renegade was excellent.
You are one lucky guy!
Thanks for the great videos!
Great videos Dustin. Really enjoying your 2021 summer!
U look vary happy out in the ocean. Good luck
Outstanding shots and video quality I felt like I was there.
Ok, now I know I need to do Prince Rupert. Been on the bucket list for a while. I hear people are real friendly up there. Great vid!
Honestly not really 😂😂
Wear your raingear eh!
I love that into😁❤️❤️💕💗🕶
In the 80's I would catch the ferry out of PR on my way north. Aiways a great adventure ,and treated well too.
Loved this adventure. This made my day. Arlene Campbell
I so loved the close up of the Bald Eagle, they are magnificent Birds, in the fall I love going up too a small Illinois town and watch them fly in too their winter nesting area and too watch them swoop down too the Mississippi River too catch fish.
So lush in that area with the houses. It would be so awesome to live there
Your camera skills are fantastic.. it’s not as common a skill as you’d think 😜 thanks for sharing all of this.. it’s exquisite!
Sorry you didn't catch nothing but it was a great adventure thank-you. Im glad you got to eat!😍❤
That place looks like it would be so cool to explore
Man. Those halibutts look good.
Keep up the good work!
Fantastic video buddy. I love the the out-of-the-way places, and your attitude is awesome, keep doing what you do, man! If you adventure east to Cochrane AB, i'll buy you a pint (and that's no empty gesture from a Scottish guy! Love the videos!
The first one is North Pacific Cannery South of Port Edwards. YOU can drive to this one as I did in 1982 and in 1998. In 1982 it was fairly open to explore and I met the caretaker who took me on a tour of the place. It was for years a Clover Leaf brand cannery and in the day made and repaired their own fishing vessels. They had their own dry dock system where they had big boat dollies which were place on the dry dock and lowered into the water. The fishing boat would maneuver itself over the dolly and then lifted up onto the dock and maneuvered around to be worked on. They also had one of the largest bandsaws I ever saw. It was about 2 stories high and the table stayed stationary but the saw itself was on trunnions and could be tilted two ways allowing boat planks to be sawn as necessary. Inside the cannery they also had an Iron Chink ( a terrible racist name) which was used to can the fish instead of hiring oriental people in the cannery. This facility and the one further South is an easy drive.
Thank you for sharing. It helps to get an even bigger picture of what it once was. 👍💜
Great video!! We need more back story on the places you find so we can claim we went there too. lol
Nice day of fishin' 👍
I'm a new fan, enjoying your videos.
I live on Vancouver Island and this was cool and funny ...I think I’m going to subscribe !
I think your little boat trip was epic ...so lucky you had a small small boat when the tide went out 🤣 the history is awesome 👍🏼
Being from Texas, it's highly unlikely that I will ever get the chance to experience any of the places you explore. I'd be a whole lot more upset about it if your channel wasn't here because this is the next best thing to being there myself. Thank you so much! Great video!
You could always go to Alaska
Hahaha we were all new to the ocean once!! The tide going out on you is classic. Great video dude
Thanks amigo. I’ll figure out this whole ocean thing lol
Absolutely beautiful, thank you!
This was my most loved video you have put together so enjoyable. Thank you much .
At 3:00 that Evinrude idles so nice! Thanks for taking me along.
Great show again, wouldn't mind joining you on an adventure. If I ever get there I'll use west coast renegades for sure.
Oh yeah, Dustin off to show us some really cool stuff today!
Your motor would scare the fish away; try turning it off and drifting. I'm Rupert-born and didn't know of these canneries! Wish we knew their names.
Dang, what an adventurous destination. Love old fishing towns and ruins. I really wanna go there now, paddle out in the Clipper Solo Prospector.
Thank you fo this beautiful and amazing adventure. Wow!😎
Looks like a beautiful location!!! And some amazing fishing!!
What a great video, so nice to show great local fishing to help out locals. BC Canada
12:33 Capt. D that is a gorgeous Sea Chicken (that is what we call small Halibut on the coast).
Please do more on what went on your video today . So much wonderful beauty the old cannery was amazing I’m watching from Arizona . I grew up in Canada many many years ago and always wanted to go home again . Thank you and please keep your quest going .
What can we do to increase your Subscribers??? You have the B.E.S.T.
exploration videos on CZcams! Excellent job on the content, presentation and editing!
Thank you!
👏👏👏
That Was WAY COOL
Such and awesome experience! Thank you for sharing Dustin!
Several of those houses look as though someone would come to the door to greet anyone showing up....
I love your adventures. I'm painting a project so I don't always do thumbs up and comment. I enjoy adventuring too. I need to get out in my new yard in the country on adventures here! It's great all the quirky zigzaging we do along the way. That's what makes it most enjoyable. Thanks for sharing. Awesome!
Thank You, That was fun 😊🙏
Great video.. as Always. Thank You! Why on earth is our ocean so mucky
Love the back woods adventure...but what were you thinking with the toddlers music. Strange contrast. (9:27)
Living the dream,love your videos,keep them coming,hugs
"Prince Rupert - City of Rainbows"; most days have at least some sunshine. My belovèd heart-home is in that city and area.
That was a sweet fishing trip. Those sea chickens are the perfect size. Great video.
So beautiful. It’s like a painting 🥺
Take me with you on your adventures guy it would be a blast.
Rock Cod is pretty good eating too.
Loved this destination....always find the ones where there is abandoned but fixable housing, interesting. Those little stilt homes were awesome.
Thanks for taking me along.
Some amazing places we have along the coast. Thanks for another cool adventure Dustin!
Thank you Dustin for another fantastic video.
I think my favourite part of this was the fishing, what an awesome catch. Must go visit Prince Rupert!
Thanks dustin for this fantastic video! Stunning camera work, love your boat adventures!
It really is kind of sad that a lot of the industry that helped build BC, and what made people move here in the first place; has been destroyed either by legislation, fights over land rights and environmental orders. It's almost gotten to the point that the three things that made BC a force to be reckoned with (mining, fishing, logging) have all been abandoned because there's too much governmental red tape to deal with to do any of those things.
Isn't that the truth! I remember in the 1970's all the Canneries from Richmond & up the coast. And all the mills along the Fraser River & the Island. Your right about how BC was built on all these. My grand mother worked in the cannery in Richmond back in the 1970's. And of coarse all the red tape & environmental standards now a days. All these things of yesteryear. Of course now a days is construction industry booming as the govt keeps bring in more people, more memories of places are torn down to put up a parking lot. And of coarse housing. Sad indeed. But I guess that's what is called progress.
Wow really? That's crazy! I was wondering why there is SOOOO much cool abandoned stuff up there. I live in a rather domesticated city (lol) here in Ohio USA so we don't really have much like that to explore. Even on lake Erie.... All that property is big money.
@@TheGibsOfTheTube A person could probably make a small fortune reclaiming all the abandoned iron and steel left over from the mining towns (that have since disappeared) but many times, the equipment was just abandoned because it was too difficult or too expensive to haul back down the mountain. I can think of numerous abandoned mines where there is probably thousands of tons of steel from the old machinery left behind. Tweakers and scavengers have come in and taken all the copper wiring, but some of the bases these old generators and stuff sat on weigh enormous amounts.
Not to mention all the stuff left behind by the people. The old Jersey townsite here in southern BC has an old "dump".... and yes, people dumped their garbage there. But when a car stopped running, that's where it went. Fridges, stoves.... TV's.... all sorts of 50's paraphernalia (much of which has weathered but survives) left to rot.
I know of a '61 Impala Sport coupe and a '58 GMC APACHE truck abandoned there. If a person could find a way to drag them off the mountain.....
@@That_AMC_Guy wow that's incredible! I wonder really though how worth it scrapping the steel would be. You'd probably need a barge to transport anything if you can even get that to it. Then dragging it off the mountain somehow. I suppose if you had a small outfit with a few people and the right equipment you could make some money. I'd wouldn't be surprised though if the province (I believe that would be your governing body?) Wouldn grant you privileges to remove it in order to "clean up" the land just because of red tape and potential insurance drama. Sad though because "we" brought the stuff, trashed the landscape with equipment and tailings sometimes wrecking water supplies... Then just leave everything behind like a kid leaving their messy room.
@@TheGibsOfTheTube Oh yeah. That's why nobody does it. The expense involved in cleaning all that crap up would cost probably 10x than what you'd get for scrap.
So very beautiful, thank you for the adventure.
Awesome 🎥 man!
what an amazing place! what happened to that little town/village that it's now abandoned? just the thought that those homes were once lived in and that long wooden walkway was so beautiful. thanks for the adventure!
Cool exploring😎
Dustin, thanks for sharing that great adventure.
The clarity in your videos is absolutely top notch. I think National Geographic needs to hire you.. I am serious. Wowsa. Also we're the boardwalks in place due to all the rain they get.. and/or high tides? Thinking more rainfall as I don't think things would be that lush if it was all ocean water?? Thank you Dustin!
Loved the video Hah Hah Hah Hah that one large limb would’ve tore your hull apart good reflexes😀👍 West Coast rerenegade great bunch of guys
You have improved so much since i started watching you years ago .so much more confident in your videoing.
Awesome video and keep up the great job !!
youre nuts AND hilarious....love your vids. stay safe u freak !!!
That was really cool! That is a fascinating place.
That was a fun watch.
Thanks Dustin.🤙
Enjoy the fishing as much as the exploring.
I want to camp out in every one of those old buildings.
There are some nice homes to buy there. Funny, I was looking at homes there last week.
There's a place called Doreen. Historic town located by the train tracks between terrace and kitwanga. Look it up. Might be a tough place to get too. Cheers. Big fan of your content
Love the area
Those were about my favorite size halibut for eating. Great video! I wish you could have gone into those old buildings, they looked like they were in decent shape overall. Lastly, change your out take, it should be "Take nothing but pictures and fish..."
Beautiful, loved all of this! Would have loved to see the houses a little closer up but looked like some might still be in use. Well done, as always.
It would have been nice if instead of just walking near all of those old buildings, that you actually went in to some of them to attempt some exploration to show to us. Maybe next time?
I was really tempted, trust me. I just stumbled across this place tho, so I didn’t know if they were actually abandoned, or just neglected. I didn’t want to go into someone’s property. I may end up back in that area tho, so I’ll see if o can get permission to do some further exploring:)
loved this video. Great work Dustin!
Now that was awesome