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27-539: Founded in 1896, it was named after the nearby Cascade Falls on the Kettle River . Cascade City was located 1 km north of the Canada–United States border, 6 km (3.7 mi) south of Christina Lake and 20 km (12 mi) east of Grand Forks . The property at Cascade City was originally owned by an American , Aaron Chandler, from North Dakota . Seeing the potential of the area, Chandler formed

54-534: A fire line , fuel break , fireroad and firetrail in Australia) is a gap in vegetation or other combustible material that acts as a barrier to slow or stop the progress of a bushfire or wildfire . A firebreak may occur naturally where there is an absence of vegetation or " fuel ", such as a river, lake or canyon. Firebreaks may also be man-made, and many of these also serve as roads, such as logging roads, four-wheel drive trails, secondary roads, or highways . In

81-431: A general store and a restaurant. Chandler himself slept in a tent . However, by the time the railway construction crews arrived in 1898, Cascade City was booming and although there were fourteen hotels, there was rarely a room available. There were numerous brothels where an estimated 60 ladies of the evening , such as "Scrap Iron Minnie" and "Rough Lock Nell" plied their trade. The first local government began with

108-538: A warm-summer humid continental climate ( Dfb ) bordering on an oceanic climate ( Cfb ), with cold winters and warm summers. Precipitation is dispersed roughly evenly throughout the year, though there is a slight maxima in May and June followed by a drier period in August. 49°01′N 118°12′W  /  49.017°N 118.200°W  / 49.017; -118.200 Cascade Falls (Kettle River) Cascade Falls

135-449: A 12 inch long Bowie knife away from the man. Back at the carpenter's house, this second man turned to Doon and asked, "Where are the other three?", alerting Mayall and Morgan to the fact that they had three more arrests to make before the case was closed. The two in custody were sent to Grand Forks to stand trial and then a third man was arrested in Cascade. While he was incarcerated at

162-417: A man by the name of Morgan, successfully made the arrest and detained the suspect, John Doon, in a sturdy house that belonged to a local carpenter. Later that evening, Morgan found his newfound duties were called for again, when the storekeeper came back to tell Mayall that a second man was in his store inquiring after the first. The second arrest was also successful, but not as peaceful, as Morgan had to wrestle

189-694: Is a waterfall on the Kettle River in the Boundary Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia . They are located just south of Christina Lake and just north of the Canada–United States border in a gorge 200-300 yards long and just below the railway bridge over the Kettle by the southern mainline of the Canadian Pacific Railway . The ghost town of Cascade City aka Cascade

216-467: Is nearby and was named for the falls, even though they were not officially named until 1977. 49°01′00″N 118°13′00″W  /  49.01667°N 118.21667°W  / 49.01667; -118.21667 This article about a location in the Interior of British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Firebreak A firebreak or double track (also called

243-600: The Columbia and Western Railway , later CPR, arrived in Cascade City from the Kettle River Bridge. The town held a celebration and $ 25 was donated for refreshments for the railway's labourers. On September 30, 1899, just over six weeks after the arrival of the railway, Cascade City was hit by a devastating fire. The blaze started in an empty shack and spread rapidly, burning down six hotels and several other structures within

270-503: The Tower of London garrison using gunpowder and fire hooks in a widespread, ad-hoc firebreaking campaign across Central London. Historians believe this to have been one of the major contributing factors to the eventual defeat of the inferno. The world's most expensive firebreak was created when part of Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco was dynamited to stop the spread of fire resulting from

297-431: The forest floor and reduce the rate of fuel accumulation, and to enhance the landscaping in recreational and inhabited locations. Forested areas often contain vast networks of firebreaks. Some communities are also using firebreaks as part of their city planning strategy . An example is the city of Revelstoke, British Columbia , which includes firebreaks in their Community Wildfire Protection Plan. Depending on

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324-673: The Cascade Development Company and with his agent, George Stocker, subdivided the land into town lots and began selling them to enterprising businessmen. Impetus for the decision to promote Cascade City was the local mining and rail construction, but the future looked even brighter when the Cascade Water and Power Company was formed and a hydro electric dam and powerhouse was built on Kettle River in 1897. The powerhouse would provide electricity to Grand Forks, Phoenix and Greenwood . The early townsite only had two buildings:

351-506: The Grand Central carefully carried a ham out to safety, and left $ 70 in money to be burned up in his room". Local historian Bill Barlee believes the money was in gold and silver coinage. Bill states the coins lay where they fell during the fire. The coins may still be at the Cascade site. Barlee has recovered a number of silver coins from the Cascade site. The original $ 70 would be worth about $ 1,400 today. Rebuilding had scarcely begun when

378-437: The carpenter's house, the final two men tried to free him. The town watchman, an Irishman by the name of Pat Kennedy tried to arrest them but was shot in the chest. Nevertheless, he doggedly pursued the three robbers and captured one, while the other two escaped across the border. The last member was taken to Grand Forks to join the other two in custody, and they were all given $ 50 fines and sentenced six months in jail. When it

405-437: The construction of a firebreak, the primary goal is to remove deadwood and undergrowth down to mineral soil. Various methods may be used to accomplish this initially and to maintain this condition. Ideally, the firebreak will be constructed and maintained according to the established practices of sustainable forestry and fire protection engineering , also known as best management practices (BMP). The general goals are to maximize

432-734: The creation of the Tax Payer's Association in December, 1897. The members petitioned the provincial government at Victoria for schools, roads, bridges, a provincial police constable and a jail. The need for police and a jail had become evident just the previous month before the Association was formed when a gang broke into the British Columbia Mercantile and Mining Syndicate's store, relieving them of 150 pounds of tobacco and one shotgun . The store's manager, Stanley Mayall, realized that

459-416: The effectiveness of the firebreak at slowing the spread of wildfire, and, by using firebreaks of sufficient size and density, to reduce the ultimate size of wildfires. Additional goals are to maintain the ecology of the forest and to reduce the impact of wildfires on air pollution and the global climate , and to balance the costs and benefits of the various projects. These goals can be achieved through

486-463: The environmental conditions, and the relative effectiveness of a given firebreak, firebreaks often have to be backed up with other firefighting efforts. Even then, it is still sometimes possible for fire to spread across a seemingly impenetrable divide. For example, during the Cedar Fire of 2003, strong Santa Ana winds had blown enough burning embers across a 10-lane section of Interstate 15 to ignite

513-570: The nearby flammable vegetation and create a firebreak helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum and Getty Museum from California wildfires . Green firebreaks are lines of low flammability vegetation, planted to retard fire. Among their advantages are lower cost, biodiversity and reduced erosion. Due to a lack of a standardized firefighting force at the time, the Great Fire of London in 1666 instead saw

540-486: The space of half an hour. The town had no fire department and the decision was made to create a firebreak by using dynamite on some of the threatened buildings. One man's life was lost when he rushed into a hotel to rescue some patrons. Few of the hotels that were lost had fire insurance. In 1899 a newspaper called the Cascade Record reported the fire on the front page. In the article it was stated "The Chinese cook at

567-421: The thieves intended to sell the tobacco and informed every nearby store and mining camp of the crime. It wasn't long before the owner of a tobacco shop approached Mayall with the news that he had a rough-looking salesman in his store trying to sell him a large quantity of tobacco. Because there were no local police, Mayall's book-keeper was swiftly armed and deputized and sent to make the arrest. The book-keeper,

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594-413: The town was hit by another major fire in 1901. All but 75 of the residents left and the town faded into obscurity. For many years, Cascade survived as a customs port. In 1920 there were 150 residents and a store. The powerhouse closed in that late '20s and the final blow came in 1947, when the historic Ritchie store and the post-office burned down. The CPR station was abandoned by 1968 and the post office

621-402: The use of appropriate operating practices, many of which can be potentially mutually beneficial to all. In many cases, it may be useful for firebreak upkeep to be maintained along with the harvesting of forestry products, such as lumber and biomass fuel, since the objectives are fundamentally related, in that the basic goals are to remove material from the forest. Furthermore, if done properly,

648-494: The value of these products can significantly offset the cost of maintaining the firebreak. In addition, these commercial industries and small businesses are helped by a reduction in the property damages caused by wildfires, and reduced risk of investment . The biomass material that is not suitable for dimensioned lumber is suitable to make woodchips for the paper industry and the energy industry. Larger trees are sometimes left in place within some types of firebreaks, to shade

675-598: The vegetation on the other side. During the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park , hot embers managed to cross the Lewis Canyon , a natural canyon up to a mile wide and 600 feet (180 m) deep. In Australia, firebreaks are less effective against eucalyptus forest fires, since intense fires in tinder-dry eucalyptus forest spread through flying embers, which can be carried by the winds to trigger new blazes several kilometres away. In 2019, goats deployed to graze

702-535: Was amalgamated with the Christina Lake Post Office in 1973. Today, the only remainder of Cascade City is the old cemetery on the opposite side of the Kettle River. The Christina Lake Golf Club's 18 hole golf course sits on much of what was the original townsite. Cascade City has been featured on the historical television series Gold Trails and Ghost Towns , season 2, episode 3. Cascade City has

729-580: Was announced that the CPR intended to build a smelter at Cascade, the town's future seemed assured. The local newspaper, the Cascade Record raved about the potential employment opportunities that the $ 500,000 smelter brought to the town and predicted that it would employ 500 to 2,000 men. The town's hopes would soon be shattered, however, when the railway chose to build the smelter in Trail instead. On August 12, 1899,

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