Barkerville

Dad took us (Mom and me) to Barkerville in April for Mom's birthday. Its an awesome place, an old prospecting town where gold prospectors lived and its full of old preserved buildings. Now there are guys acting like the original people so you can see a real blacksmith making things and a photographer with a real old fashioned camera with a big black cloth. Its soooo cool, we stayed there all day!

This is the old church. There was a minister preaching in it! He was an actor really - he had a big beard!

 

These two are of the photographer's shop. There's the old camera with a black cloth on it so they could see the picture and loads of chemicals.

Two views of the school room. There's only one room for all the kids!

 This was a cool stage coach! It was quite noisy but looked great! I think it must have been very bumpy and I don't think I would fit in it easily. I'm so glad we have cars now!

The blacksmith shop. He had a real fire going and was making things for people to buy!