Remember traveling this train from New Westminster to Chilliwack to see my Moms relatives in the 1950's.

@colleneford148

4 жыл бұрын

Wish it would be available in these days as most of my relatives still live in Chilliwack and I in South Surrey.

This entire film should be professionally restored.

Wow, the old Paramount Theatre! Such a shame it was torn down, a very iconic piece of Chilliwack history..

@ditzygypsy

3 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed watching movies there.

An era long gone, never to be lived again. I'm just old enough to remember this time.....and I miss it ! Life was simpler and it allowed us to live it. Watching this video I can smell that time, the warm sunshine and everything thing moved slowly. Thanks.

@roccodimiccio5199

9 ай бұрын

once in an eternity...they call those times the calm before the storm

Great history footage 👏 nicely done and great story about Sumas

We need these electric gems back and all those beautiful trees ... My cousins and Aunt and uncle and Grandparents lived in Veddar and Chiliwack But in the 70s and 80s

Incredible that this is still available. The Interurban is something my father always told me about in reference to his childhood and to actually see it in operation is amazing !

This is really something, I wanna almost do a transition video to show where these were taken and to show how much has changed.

My grandparents who were from Vancouver. Always told me stories about these trollies. And for the Chilliwack locations. 09:58 - Chilliwack station/ no longer there. At the end of 5th & Nowell street. 10:07 The Empress hotel/ no longer there. Corner of Princess Ave. And Young Rd. 10:44 Standing at (Five) corners. Looking down Yale street towards little mountain. Paramount theatre is no longer there on the left. 11:07 Old Chilliwack court house I believe. On the corner of Court Ln and College St

I was born in Chilliwack in 1950, this video was a step back in time for me, I recognize everything on Yale road. good job.

wow thanks soooooomuch for catching all this, i love it

I love how the last clip, the resolution is so low that you can’t see the tracks in the street, so it looks like the train just goes rogue at the end.

At 12:17 "There's the CN Tower". It sure grew a lot taller after they moved it to Toronto.

amazing thank you for uploading this. great to see where Vancouver came from

Most enjoyable! My grandfather was head painter for BC Electric. Thanks so much.

Enjoyed the video. Recently I drove by one of the old power houses in langley, had to google what the building was. Prince George has a couple of BC's old electric trains at the museum - was neat to see.

Great video , it was time when promising future on horizon , electric locomotives , the Rail Transportation should upgraded and keep electrified Rail Roads , look at sample in Switzerland , Norway, Sweden for comparison to clime excuse , unfortunately Canadian transportation network fell back at least 25 -30 years behind developed nations !

@amanbirdi8106

3 жыл бұрын

just thy dont want oil companies to loose money......... simple....... vry simple......

Great vedio and narration

It was so cute!

12:16 the CN Tower sure looks different now compared to then

Whoa. I recognized line frontage past the Vedder Mountain pump station. Concluded I need to use Google Earth again to study portions of the line

At 16:08 the building is now the Salvation Army Thrift store.

Love this,do you have anymore film?

The Transit Museum Society has this video for sale. It includes other lines from Vancouver and Burnaby. 2 hours. Trams.ca

@georgelee1906

4 жыл бұрын

I have it , it's a great video :)

I live in Chilliwack and I hardly recognize the city from today .

@BarryWarne

5 жыл бұрын

I grew up in the Lower Mainland and it's astounding the rate of development and how much open space there was around 1950

Hey, where did you get this footage from? Do you know who digitized it? Excellent resource, thank you!

I like when he says "station".. and it's a little wood shack. Like something used to be for bus shelters when I was a kid. You know what? I wish I could time warp myself back there. I'd buy me a house for 10k and just live decent, away and safe from all the insanity and misery of today! Seriously. Where is my time machine, dang it!

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2:53 I'm pretty sure this big white building is still there. Someone lives in it. I remember about 10 years ago getting yelled at from the resident to move along after parking in their driveway for a few minutes. We'd heard it was haunted 😂 and there was a creepy mannequin in the window.

Narrator: Frank Horne. RIP, Frank

Makes me hate the community a little less. Beautiful video!

Who’s commentating?

@saltspringrailway3683

4 жыл бұрын

Bob Newhart?

@youzzername

4 жыл бұрын

Frank Horn with Vic Sharman from commentary recorded in 1990

Sad how we humans just keep expanding and destroying the green space all around us.