Deep under Bridge Lake, east of 100 Mile House, lies a ghost most people don’t know exists. A thriving Chinese market garden community—dozens of families feeding the Cariboo region—was deliberately flooded in the 1960s for a hydro project. Erased. Drowned. Forgotten. Today, divers find remnants: stone foundations, broken pottery, tools from another time. Descendants still live in the Cariboo. They remember. This is the story Canada doesn’t tell.
Timestamps:
0:00 – The hidden village
0:20 – A thriving community erased
0:45 – What divers find today
1:10 – The families who remember
1:30 – Why this matters
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