Folklore Bunker!!...or is it??

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COME.....gather around,let me tell you of a story of long ago_Of course it is hard to get into great detail ,but this one seems to be an on going story of a "missing" arms bunker left over after WW2 in our area.....So lets start!!

In northern B.C....between Prince George and Prince Rupert there were a number of millitary bases that sprung up to train and prepare for the possible invasion coming in from the north. Prince George,Smithers,Terrace and Prince Rupert.Each one of these centers had bunkers of "stuff" away from the base stored underground for the possible senero of SHTF.You have to remember that up here in the 40's roads were dirt(if there was a road) and at that time they(the bunkers)were placed in the middle of no where,where as now is cleared land.The story goes that when the road was being built to Prince Rupert from Terrace they had to blast rock...it was feared that they would disrupt this bunkerand KABOOM!!!.This was the only bunker(of 7 I am told) that was not bothered to be cleared after the war was over....but the only bunker not found. Again...in this area, at that time,they were in the no where land.....no one for miles,so I can see the reason not to care and just let nature take over...I lay awake at night pondering all the goods!!!

The story never goes away....:dancingbanana:


Who want to go on a tresure hunt!!
 
Thanks, but I'm too busy torturing a Leprechaun I caught, into revealing the location of his pot of gold...
 
While stationed in Chilliwack a few of us almost went to Slesse to look for treasure, but never did. Heard rumors about the plane who's gold cargo disappeared after it impacted a mt. side near Vancouver too. I used to hunt in Mts. in the south BC and see all kinds of mechanical parts, stuff even vehicle left behind by contractors. No doubt there is a reason Beachcombers exist out there and people can simularly do the same on mainland.
Good hunting!
 
The Queens Medalist 86 said:
While stationed in Chilliwack a few of us almost went to Slesse to look for treasure, but never did. Heard rumors about the plane who's gold cargo disappeared after it impacted a mt. side near Vancouver too. I used to hunt in Mts. in the south BC and see all kinds of mechanical parts, stuff even vehicle left behind by contractors. No doubt there is a reason Beachcombers exist out there and people can simularly do the same on mainland.
Good hunting!
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Ahh, but that rumour has a touch of truth! Yes, a plane crashed, no, no gold. It was a B-25 bomber that crashed at the North end of Pitt Lake. This book talks about it:

h ttp://www.bc-alter.net/dfriesen/mineintro.html
h ttp://www.bc-alter.net/dfriesen/bomber.htm

Videos:

h ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPSszlZ3K-o&feature=related
h ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uig4-iuUjus
And some web pages discuss it, too. The plane crashed after the war with rumours of gold on board. The plane was found by the military, all bodies removed, and a plaque placed stating such. You can visit the wreckage by helicopter.
 
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I've lived around Smithers all my life and I've never heard about any bunkers. There are emergency airfields in Telkwa and Woodcock for the Hurricanes to operate from when the Japaneses bombed Terrace and Smithers. Terrace airport had antiaircraft emplacements around it for years (sans guns). They might still be there. I highly doubt any hidden caches or bunkers exist along the highway but if you have more info, let me know and I'll go look. As soon as some of this friggin snow melts.
 
my favorite folklore/urban legend is the supposed tunnel at the longbranch factory between the arsenal and the admin building (the only remaining building) it was said to b full of parts and wood i don't know why it would be but they still talk at the gunshows in this area about it.I've talked to a number of guys who worked there and they laugh at the storey and I had a chance to walk around the building and found no evidence of a tunnel .still one can dream ...
 
Rupert has 2 forts still in existances but grown over. Along with ammo bunkers in Sourdough bay and Comm's bunker on the hillside behind town

There is a small bunker on a island on the NW side of Hakai Pass, seen it from the water but never landed there.

Yorke Island has a full gun battery overgrown.

Victoria area has about 4 forts

Vancouver has 4 searchlight towers, the fort under the Lions Gate bridge was demolished. 3rd beach in Stanley Park was the site of a gun battery, you can still see the outline of the gun platforms. The Mseum of Man in UBC was the site of the main fort, mostly demolished but there is still one complete gun platform to the SW of the Museum.

There was a camoflaged searchlight tower at ambleside in West Van. Also a AA battery there and at Cates Park
 
I remember hearing about one that was built into the side of the mountain in Kamloops... on the side the mill is located on...

Who knows, it was always just a story.. never know with crazy rumors..
 
marks 36 hamon said:
my favorite folklore/urban legend is the supposed tunnel at the longbranch factory between the arsenal and the admin building (the only remaining building) it was said to b full of parts and wood i don't know why it would be but they still talk at the gunshows in this area about it.I've talked to a number of guys who worked there and they laugh at the storey and I had a chance to walk around the building and found no evidence of a tunnel .still one can dream ...
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They just didn't want you to find it
 
I would not be surprised if some of the alleged bunkers never existed but were purposely "leaked" so that Axis spies would relay false info back to Germany and Japan. I would like to think that somewhere there are dozens of mint Lee Enfields just sitting there, waiting for me.
 
There was a Armoured train running from Prince Rupert to Terrace, to ensure the Japanese did not cut the line. Had the Japanese invaded Alaska, Prince Rupert would have been the Frontline and cloest port to load troops and supplies to fight them. BC would have looked quite different if it had happened.

Now imagine if Russia had not sold Alaska to the US and the cold war still happened. The BC/Yukon-Alaskan border would have looked like the Finnish-Russian border, tank traps, mines, bunkers, barbed wire. Not to mention that Canadians would have an entierly different outlook on life.
 
Colin said:
Now imagine if Russia had not sold Alaska to the US and the cold war still happened. The BC/Yukon-Alaskan border would have looked like the Finnish-Russian border, tank traps, mines, bunkers, barbed wire. Not to mention that Canadians would have an entierly different outlook on life.
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We would either have:

...a much stronger military and nukes.

...American troops patrolling that sector.

...or we would have been invaded by the Russians a long time ago.
 
I grew up in Dawson Creek and heard the same rumours. This was in days before internet, bulletin boards, house hold computers so the rumours got passed along the old fashioned way. Can't remember where I first heard them, but they always stuck with me.
 
In the U.K they did have a secret army that was to be activated if the germans had ever landed. The idea being that they would commit sabatoge. Membership was kept secret and arms were issued. The authorities told the people they did not want to know the locations where they were hidden in case the germans interrogated them.
Several years ago, one such cache was accidently found containing rifles, ammunition,grenades and a Bren gun. there are probably more, but the people who hid them are most likely dead by now as they were not young at the time, otherwise they would have been drafted into the army.
 
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