A local hiker Lyle Litzenberger has recently published a book primarily focused on the trails in the Burke Ridge( Mountain) and Widgeon Creek areas.
Newspaper article: Burke, by the book
Burke and Widgeon a hiker's guide
Lyle Litzenberger
pebblestone publishing 2013
ISBN 0981125808, 9780981125800
And a dedicated website for the book: BurkeandWidgeon
Buy the book information
Long overdue, I hope that this book is widely read and enjoyed.
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Friday, August 23, 2013
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Maps of the area
Maps that cover Burke-Pinecone Provincial Park, and surrounding areas. These maps are in 1: 50 000 scale, except for the geology maps.) These are all fast links to their Geoscan pages, from Natural Resources Canada, just click on “more”, which will open up a larger listing of options to the different map options, Geopdf are digitized pdf’s which allow you to customize the layers, and create your own maps. They all download in their own separate zip formatted folders, just open the folder and drag the map onto your desktop.
Vancouver North, Coquitlam, and Pitt Lake map Areas, British Columbia With Special Emphasis On the Evolution of the Plutonic Rocks; Roddick, J A. Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 335, 1965, ; 276 pages.
( Three maps and three drawings are included in a zip file of the entire book.)
Port Coquitlam, BC , NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/7, (edition 7) 2009
Port Coquitlam, BC, NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/7, (edition 6) 2002
Geology Coquitlam, BC; Roddick, J A. Geological Survey of Canada, "A" Series Map 1153A , 1965
Pitt River, BC, NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/10, (edition 4) 2009
Pitt River, BC, NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/10, (edition 3) 2002
Geology Pitt Lake, Vancouver, East Half, BC; Roddick, J A; Armstrong, J E. Geological Survey of Canada, "A" Series Map 1151A , 1965
Mamquam Mountain, BC, NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/15, (edition 4) 2009
Mamquam Mountain, BC, NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/15, (edition 3) 2002
Stave River, BC, NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/9, (edition 5) 2009
Stave River, BC, NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/9, (edition 4) 2002
Glacier Lake, BC, NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/16, (edition 4) 2009
Glacier Lake, BC, NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/16, (edition 3) 2002
Squamish, BC, NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/11, (edition 4) 2009
Squamish, BC, NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/11, (edition 3) 2003
New Westminster, BC - Canada - United States of America, NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/2, (edition 7) 2009
New Westminster, BC - United States, NRC. Canadian Topographic Maps 92G/2, (edition 6) 2003
Pitt Lake legends videos
I personally do not believe in any of it, the Mitchell bomber site and the wreckage, should be left alone as a memorial to the crew who died there.
Mitchell Bomber Part 1 --- Part 2
Seekers of gold Part 1 --- Part 2
And a website devoted to putting to rest the myth of Slumach
One of a set of raw video about the curse of Slumach Item : MI-475 - Lost Mine - tape 18original raw footage for "Curse of the Lost Gold Mine." Includes an interview with John F. H. Thompson, a geologist at UBC, who talks about the geology of Pitt Lake, shots of a map of Pitt Lake and Michael Collier plotting out a route on the map, also includes an interview with Mike Boileau, who has been looking into finding gold in the Pitt Lake area since 1979, he talks about the curse, the stories of Pitt Lake, and his own experiences at Pitt Lake.
This video is part of the Series S4 - Curse of the Lost Gold Mine series located at the Vancouver Archives.