10 latest additions to the Canada Forums. http://thewallshaveteeth.net/index.php Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:43:13 +0000 60 http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/2205-gps-coordinates/
I stumbled across this site in my search for abandoned items across Canada. Chris the webmaster (moderator?) suggested I post my request for GPS coordinates to the forum.

I fly all over Canada during the summer looking for abandoned items from the air. This summer I'll be flying about 5,500 miles from Winnipeg to Watson Lake to Churchill to Montreal to Digby, NS....and back. Whew!
In the coming years, I will go back to some of the sites via float plane for further exploring.

Since everyone here seems to like abandoned stuff; here are the coordinates of a couple items I've discovered. They are two abandoned ships in Hudson Bay. Cut and paste into Google Earth and you'll see the ships!!
Ship 1: N057 5 3.910, W092 29 43.740
Ship 2: N058 46 8.950, W093 53 21.180

So my request: Do any of the members have GPS coordinates of any noteworthy items?
Tilas; I saw your note about WWII stuff from the AlCan construction. THOSE items would be awesome. I'm an amateur history buff on the AlCan construction and HBC forts (factories).

I've reading & viewing the AnotF Cassiar pages (I now have the coords for Cassiar and will over fly this year). Really cool images!!! One item I noticed is that there is a landing strip SE of town. Anybody been up to the airfield? Do you know its condition?

BTW - I assume the AnotF members have found this site about Cassiar: http://www.cassiar.ca/home/intro.htm
It is filled with 500+ images of the town from the 50s to present day.

Take care,
DHC-2]]> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:43:13 +0000 http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/2205-gps-coordinates/ http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1851-the-slanted-house/ Trespassing Signs: The closed sign at the entrance to the Cassiar road, none on the building itself.

Patrolled: Yes....sorta. While this is outside the "townsite" of Cassiar, the area is currently being used by the BC government for various projects. There is a camp there where some people are working (unsure how many), so someone may stop you out of pure curiosity (it's not a place that is known for visitors considering its in the middle of nowhere). If they ask you to leave, please respect their wishes.

Personally Visited: Yes, May 31st, 2008


I call this one "The Slanted House" because everything was on a slant in this area! The roof of the house is really strangely built, the building looks to be on a slant, the garage next to it is almost fallen right over, and the outhouse outside is slanted too! This place was one of the "newer" ones we looked through, because we found catalogs from Dec 2005 in there. However, the door was wide open when we walked up, so we just went in and looked around.


Front of the house, 2nd roof built over the 1st one.


Outside of the house, with the outhouse in the background.


Side door, open when we got there.


Inside the entrance.


Kitchen area. Stove's gone.


Bedroom


Bathroom


Living room area. It looked quite nice, I guess that's like a little "bar" or something on the left.


Living room area. It's kinda creepy, that light dot showed up in most of the living room pictures, but nowhere else... No reason for the dot either, there was nothing reflective. Ghost perhaps?


I kid you not, we have the exact same TV at home. XD;


Sears Catalogs from Nov/Dec 2005.


Laundry room


Hallway leading to the laundry room, which leads to the kitchen.


WARNING. Garage is in the process of falling over DO NOT ENTER.
I'll be honest, if the garage survived this winter, I'll be amazed. I didn't go in it, I just took pictures with my zoom.


Side of garage, with an outhouse next to it. It looks ready to fall over! But yknow what's gross? right in front of that outhouse is a creek. Guess where the hole to the outhouse goes? Don't drink the water downstream, Ew!


Inside the garage. You can see the whole building is slanted over.


Wall of the garage showing just how badly it's tilting.


Child's wagon.


Toy truck in the dirt.


Child's bicycle outside the garage.]]> Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:32:40 +0000 http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1851-the-slanted-house/ http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1847-large-log-cabin/ Trespassing Signs: The closed sign at the entrance to the Cassiar road, none on the building itself.

Patrolled: Yes....sorta. While this is outside the "townsite" of Cassiar, the area is currently being used by the BC government for various projects. There is a camp there where some people are working (unsure how many), so someone may stop you out of pure curiosity (it's not a place that is known for visitors considering its in the middle of nowhere). If they ask you to leave, please respect their wishes.

Personally Visited: Yes, May 31st, 2008


This cabin was one of the most interesting in the entire trip I think. It's like the owners just got up and left, and never looked back. It's creepy in a way, but this one was really interesting to explore. The back door was closed and locked, but the front door was unlocked. At first looking through the window we thought someone might have been living here, but after a closer look we realized it was actually abandoned so we went inside.



Back of Cabin


Side wall of cabin


Side wall showing bedroom window


Old fridge on the back porch


Vehicles and junk nearby.


Master bedroom. Here's where things seemed weird, this room looked so untouched, like someone just up and left.


Shirt laid out neatly on the bed. When I walked into this room, a squirrel with sleeping on the bed, and we sorta scared each other!


Typewriter and.... I'm not sure what that is. This is the closet in the master bedroom.


Master bed with books still on the shelves.


Second bedroom, I'm guessing for a girl.


Teen mags and a teddy bear.


Bathroom. Nice color of the toilet lol.


Inside the kitchen area


BOO! I had fun playing with this.


Calendar with the date on it. Probably the last time anyone was there...


Cook stove and wood stove in the kitchen.


Living room area


Big box of Microwave recipe books


Old record player and stereo.


Very pretty picture on the wall, it was like 3D cause the leaves and the little roof were actually leaves and tin. It was so neat.


2nd bedroom, almost empty.


Junk on the shelf in the 2nd bedroom


Stairs to the basement. Pitch black down there, so we chickened out and didn't go down there. ;


Old bus seats on the front porch. A really nice place to sit...


....Because the view form there is fantastic!]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:59:00 +0000 http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1847-large-log-cabin/ http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1835-the-house-on-the-hill/ Trespassing Signs: The closed sign at the entrance to the Cassiar road, none on the building itself.

Patrolled: Yes....sorta. While this is outside the "townsite" of Cassiar, the area is currently being used by the BC government for various projects. There is a camp there where some people are working (unsure how many), so someone may stop you out of pure curiosity (it's not a place that is known for visitors considering its in the middle of nowhere). If they ask you to leave, please respect their wishes.

Personally Visited: Yes, May 31st, 2008


If you walk up beside this house, then keep climbing the hill to the left, you will reach the Cabin on the Hill.

I liked this place, the view was amazing, and there was a supply of running water here. My dad was actually interested in finding out who owns this place, he was wanting to buy it to clean it up and make a summer home out of it. There was a sign with a phone number on it, and dad did call the number, which sent him to another company lol. He eventually tracked down the company on the sign, but they honestly couldn't remember anything about the property because they said it's been so long. It's probably been given back to the government or something. Oh well.


The house up on the hill. Look at all the windows!


The stairway leading up to the house. The loops on the bottom of the picture were for a watering system for a garden.


The side of the house.


Front of the house. There were padlocks on both doors, so we unfortunately couldn't get inside.


Other side of the house, it looks like someone wanted to build something but didn't.


Shed near the house. Lots of wood everywhere.


Inside the 1st shed, very old encyclopedias.


Lots of junk on the shelves.


More junk.


Another shed.


Inside the 2nd shed.


Old tennis rackets on the shelf.


Stream running down the hill, it was very cold.


Pond at the bottom of the stream.


Truck parts


About 100 yards to the right of the house was the remains of another that had burned down.


More of the burned down home.


And finally... the view from the front of the house. What a pretty sight to see every morning. ]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:04:50 +0000 http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1835-the-house-on-the-hill/ http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1834-former-townsite-of-cassiar/ Trespassing Signs: The closed sign at the entrance to the Cassiar road, none on the building itself.

Patrolled: Yes. You need to enter the old town site of Cassiar through the main gates, which is currently being used by the BC government for various projects. There is a camp there where some people are working (unsure how many), so someone may stop you out of pure curiosity (it's not a place that is known for visitors considering its in the middle of nowhere). If they ask you to leave, please respect their wishes.

Honestly though, other then the abandoned church, there's really not much to see in here, so you're not missing much. All other buildings are currenlty being used by the BC Government.

Personally Visited: Yes, May 31st, 2008


Main building beside the gates.


Equipment by the gate.


This road runs beside the church. It leads to a dead end.


Small buildings on the far side are being used by the government, we saw people going in and out of them.


I believe this was the old hotel of Cassiar, now being used as a bunkhouse for the workers. We did not go in.


Imagine houses here. This used to be a block of homes.


Keep imagining pretty homes everywhere. You can see the remains of the sidewalk.


Remains of the sidewalk that ran beside the homes where people once lived.


More sidewalk and you can kind of see the road, and where the house once stood.


Near the top of the picture, that was a road.


When they tore down Cassiar, they even tore up all the side streets so people couldn't drive down them. Well, I supposed you could if you really wanted to, but we weren't going to try it in our van lol. I'm not really sure why they would go through THAT much trouble to rip up even the streets, there's nothing down there that we can tell. :\]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:49:18 +0000 http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1834-former-townsite-of-cassiar/ http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1833-mysterious-giant-green-thing/ Trespassing Signs: The closed sign at the entrance to the Cassiar road, none on the building itself.

Patrolled: Yes....sorta. While this is outside the "townsite" of Cassiar, the area is currently being used by the BC government for various projects. There is a camp there where some people are working (unsure how many), so someone may stop you out of pure curiosity (it's not a place that is known for visitors considering its in the middle of nowhere). If they ask you to leave, please respect their wishes.

Personally Visited: Yes, May 31st, 2008


Now this has to be the strangest thing we saw that entire trip. We.... are not really sure WHAT this thing is. We couldn't figure it out, but if anyone has any ideas... let me know! This was near a big yard with all sorts of junk in it, and an old cabin, but the cabin was boarded and locked up, so we didn't bother with it.


Outside of it, it was VERY tall.


Inside of it looking straight up.


Doorway


Looking at the top


Can you guess what this is?


Give up? It's an old fashion chicken plucker. You put the dead chicken inside, and turn it on, and the rubber knobbies spin and pull the feathers off the chicken. Kinda creepy, isn't it?]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:34:16 +0000 http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1833-mysterious-giant-green-thing/ http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1829-house-on-stilts/ Trespassing Signs: The closed sign at the entrance to the Cassiar road, none on the building itself.

Patrolled: Yes....sorta. While this is outside the "townsite" of Cassiar, the area is currently being used by the BC government for various projects. There is a camp there where some people are working (unsure how many), so someone may stop you out of pure curiosity (it's not a place that is known for visitors considering its in the middle of nowhere). If they ask you to leave, please respect their wishes.

Personally Visited: Yes, May 31st, 2008

This one is pretty cool, This house was set down on what I'll call stilts, (cause I can't remember the proper word lol), up on a hill way behind the garage. My dad said a friend of his once tried to buy this little house, but the deal fell through, so, here it sits. I'm going to mark this one as a ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK, because since it IS supported up high, I wouldn't trust what's holding it for much longer. We could feel it creak as we walked in there, so we made our exploration very short. Also, the ladder is very rickety, and would probably break if used more.


From this angle it looks like a normal house.


Until you see it's being supported high off the ground. I'd say oh.... 5 feet at least.


Up the ladder to the house, the house number is still there. It originally was in the former town site of Cassiar. (The townsite has since been destroyed)


Inside the entrance. The door was wide open.


Living room and the "door to nowhere" (That blue door on the 2nd photo)


Kitchen area, filled with ceiling tiles...


Which have all fallen off the ceiling over the years. Someone obviously didn't install them right!


Bathroom


Bedroom #1


Bedroom #2 (I like the carpet)


Book cover with a date on it.]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:20:34 +0000 http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1829-house-on-stilts/ http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1828-little-log-cabin/ Trespassing Signs: The closed sign at the entrance to the Cassiar road, none on the building itself.

Patrolled: Yes....sorta. While this is outside the "townsite" of Cassiar, the area is currently being used by the BC government for various projects. There is a camp there where some people are working (unsure how many), so someone may stop you out of pure curiosity (it's not a place that is known for visitors considering its in the middle of nowhere). If they ask you to leave, please respect their wishes.

Personally Visited: Yes, May 31st, 2008

Another little cabin up in Cassiar, this one was a little boring, it's pretty empty. One thing to note is it 's actually sinking into the ground it was built on. This was a problem with a lot of cabins built in Cassiar, they were built directly on the ground, no form of foundation or anything to support them, so over the years, they're slowly settling into the ground, and becoming very tilted.


Outside, you can see it's sunk down into the ground quite a bit. All the ground in this area was very soft and wet.


Beside another building, I don't have pictures of the 2nd, but the 2nd was converted into a chicken coop it looked like, it was really smelly and full of hay.


Living room. No, that's not an optical illusion, the cabin was actually that un-level.


Kitchen area, an interesting thing is those cabinets were metal, not wood.


Very un-level floor.


Bathroom area, yes, that's ice buildup in the corner, and yes, these were taking in May. It's such high country that there was still ice and snow everywhere. I think that's insulation all over the floor....]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:07:38 +0000 http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1828-little-log-cabin/ http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1827-cabin-on-the-hill/
Trespassing Signs: The closed sign at the entrance to the Cassiar road, none on the building itself.

Patrolled: Yes....sorta. While this is outside the "townsite" of Cassiar, the area is currently being used by the BC government for various projects. There is a camp there where some people are working (unsure how many), so someone may stop you out of pure curiosity (it's not a place that is known for visitors considering its in the middle of nowhere). If they ask you to leave, please respect their wishes.

Personally Visited: Yes, May 31st, 2008


This little cabin is hidden high up on a hill, and it's almost impossible to see from the road. We found it when looking at the house on the hill, and there was a trail leading up and away. We decided to follow it and came up to this one!


Looking up at the cabin, it's very little.


Shed in front of the cabin.


Same shed


The "porch", which was barely high enough to stand.


Bathroom


This couch is gross lol.


More yucky couch.


Bedroom


Garfield!


Papers and things


Date on paper (name and address blotched out for privacy)


Really funky walls...


Inside the tiny kitchen.


This kitchen is TINY, just room for one.


I'd hate to have to cook in there, it's so small... I'm surprised they got that stuff in there.


More Garfield!


...Don't remember what this was.


Rusted toolbox]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:52:30 +0000 http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/1827-cabin-on-the-hill/ http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/86-garagegas-station/ Trespassing Signs: The closed sign at the entrance to the Cassiar road, none on the building itself.

Patrolled: Yes....sorta. While this is outside the "townsite" of Cassiar, the area is currently being used by the BC government for various projects. There is a camp there where some people are working (unsure how many), so someone may stop you out of pure curiosity (it's not a place that is known for visitors considering its in the middle of nowhere). If they ask you to leave, please respect their wishes.

Personally Visited: Yes, May 31st, 2008

This is the old garage/gas station that was in Cassiar. It's long since abandoned. The front of the building is boarded and locked up. However- the back wall of the shop has collapsed, so you can get in through there, or the door nearby that's gone.

ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK.

We went snooping inside the garage but we could hear the walls and roof creaking, so we stepped very lightly and quietly. Most likely, another year or two of snowfall will do the building in.

Please note: it was very dark inside the building, all of the interior photos were lit up by the flash of my camera only. We forgot to bring a flashlight. ; Our eyes adjusted enough so we could see a tiny bit, but not much. The photos were what really showed us what was inside.




Bags of Asbestos, this is what they were mining up in Cassiar


Closeup of a bag. Is "injurious" a real word?


The back wall that has collapsed, most likely due to heavy snowfall over the years.


Pretty scenery in the background, the mountains are beautiful.






Old truck with a tree growing out of it.










This is how we entered the building. We tried to stay clear of the side that had collapsed.




















Old cans of oil that are STILL FULL. These are the old style of cans, where you needed a can opener to get them open. There were a few dozen of these scattered around. Dad scooped one to see if the oil was still good. It was lol.






Looking back at the collapsed section from the inside. We didn't spend very long in that part of the shop.














I love the sign above the table.




Anyone else remember these old style Pepsi cans?








Uhm...not anymore.


There was a small upper level to the shop, but we couldn't see enough to go up there and snoop. I think there's an office up there.]]> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:18:09 +0000 http://thewallshaveteeth.net/topic/86-garagegas-station/