The Real Estate Guide, Susan M. Boyce, February 11-25, 2005, pg 12
Don’t wait to buy land, buy land and wait. After more than three decades of successfully buying and selling recreational properties, that’s still the advice Rudy Nielsen, president of NIHO Land & Cattle Company, gives anyone who is considering land as an investment.
Successful Investing Takes Guts and Planning
The first step in buying recreational property,
Pulse24.com – January 31, 2005
It’s quiet. Too quiet. But now it’s up to a Virginia property developer to bring in the noise. The silent item is actually an abandoned British Columbia mining town that comes with a library, pub and hospital. The developer, who wasn’t identified, snatched all that up for under $7 million. Now he owns all of Kitsault, which is about 500 miles northwest of Vancouver, according to the town’s marketing agent.
Stuff.co.nz – January 27. 2005
VANCOUVER: An abandoned, but well-maintained, British Columbia mining town, complete with library, pub and hospital, has been sold to an unidentified Virginia property developer who must now decide what he wants to do with it.
The buyer paid less than $C7 million for Kitsault, located on a fjord near the Alaska Panhandle about 800 km northwest of Vancouver, the town’s marketing agent said on Tuesday.
I have used a variety of compasses from time to time, but it was not until spring of 1960 that I used a compass every day as part of my job – that job being a compass man establishing boundaries in the forests of northern British Columbia. With a small, hand held compass, I had to be very accurate, starting out at one corner, traveling the perimeter of a square and arriving back at the same spot.
Daniel Girard, Toronto Star, January 26, 2005
VANCOUVER—It’s a ghost town being brought back to life.
Kitsault, a deserted mining community in a spectacular part of northwestern British Columbia, has been sold, complete with about 130 hectares of land, 92 homes, seven apartment buildings, two recreation centres, a shopping mall and a hospital.
“It’s exciting to know that the lights are going to come on again,”
Bruce Constantineau, Vancouver Sun, January 25, 2005
The B.C. ghost town of Kitsault has been sold to U.S. developers who are now considering its possible reincarnation as a destination resort, a university town, or even a movie studio centre.
Virginia developer Shawn Weingast and partner Krishan Suthanthiran paid less than the $7-million asking price for the intact former mining community along Alice Arm on the remote northern coast.
This is a true story that took place some years ago. It is about three guys who decided to go elk hunting in late fall, in a camper. They took off early one morning under clear skies and with a camper stocked with enough food and beverages for five days. After driving for a full day, they arrived at their favourite hunting spot in the East Kootenays and proceeded to light a fire and set up a cozy camp.
I have had lots of pets in my time, but never one as unique as Bo-Beep. Bo-Beep was a Spruce Grouse that flew into my life in the early Sixties, and came along with my on some of my adventures up in Northern B.C.
When I worked for the B.C. Ministry of Forests in the 1960’s, I would practice a technique that I now know is called “slipping”. With a piece of string and a shoelace,
The Hindustan Times, Reuters, January 26, 2005
An abandoned, but well-maintained, British Columbia mining town, complete with library, pub and hospital, has been sold to an unidentified Virginia property developer who must now decide what he wants to do with it.
The buyer paid less than C$7 million (3.03 million pounds) for Kitsault, located on a fjord near the Alaska Panhandle about 500 miles (800 km) northwest of Vancouver,
Anyone can walk into the wilderness and walk out again in two weeks. How you fare in those two weeks depends upon how prepared you are. The English used to go on safaris for months into the South African wilderness and would have 30-50 porters with them, and when camp was set they would have a table, white linen cloth, crystal glasses and a bottle of wine, and good meals. This is what we called “prepared”.