Cariboo region – SofList https://www.soflist.com Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:32:34 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Chinese Village That Was DELIBERATELY DROWNED https://www.soflist.com/2026/03/05/the-chinese-village-that-was-deliberately-drowned/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-chinese-village-that-was-deliberately-drowned https://www.soflist.com/2026/03/05/the-chinese-village-that-was-deliberately-drowned/#respond Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:32:34 +0000 https://www.soflist.com/2026/03/05/the-chinese-village-that-was-deliberately-drowned/

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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