Talk:Low Bar Ferry

Unreferenced; does this ferry exist

This article has no cites. Low Bar Ferry does not appear in the list of ferries on the BC Ministry of Transportation site at http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/marine/ferry_schedules.htm. Nor does a google search find anything other than WP or WP-derived references. I wonder if we have been had here.

Adding unreferenced tag in the hope of driving out some more information. Will request deletion in a month if nothing surfaces. -- Starbois (talk) 19:01, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

It definitely exists, friends of mine use it on occasion; it's operated by the locals at the High Bar Indian Reserve (why it's not the High Bar Ferry I've never been clear, but presumably in that locality there's a High Bar and a Low Bar..... DoH doesn't operate it because the range road that leads to it isn't under their jurisdictino; could be Lands Branch, could be MoF, I don't know the story, all I know is it exists. I'll write a friend in Lillooet who's a part-time rancher and see what he knows. Does MoT list Big Bar Ferry, by the way? 'Cause AFAIK neither of the roads that reach it are DoT roads, though mabye I'm wrong on the Kostering side....I have an old picture of the Pavilion Ferry, which was a mine-bucket strung across the river, been putting off makign an article 'til I had the picture (stored in a now-external hard drive). Re Low Bar again, I think if you search http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca something might turn up; or what they have might be a picture of Miller's Ferry, which ran where the Lillooet Suspension Bridge is now....Skookum1 (talk) 19:19, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

MoT does list Big Bar Ferry, including detailed pdfs of the terms under which its operation is contracted out to a private company. Nothing on Low Bar/High Bar though. Guess if it is the responsibilty of some other ministry, or a purely private operation, that would explain it.-- Starbois (talk) 15:47, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

It appears that BC Archives has the name totally wrong, it was at High Bar, although my Lillooet source says it hasn't operated in decades (the BC Archives image is from the 1890s) but I'm sure my Whistler contacts had used it, as well as the Big Bar Ferry (they'd mentioned both) so maybe the cable is still there and used by the local people only. It did exist historically, though when it ended service remains to be seen; my friend is reviewing the BC Archives image to make sure it's where it's supposed to be; i.e. by looking at the terrain he'll know if it's actually a picture of the Big Bar Ferry; but its accreditation says Thompson-Nicola Regional District and I think Big Bar is in the Cariboo Regional District...one online photo archive has a blog which calls the Big Bar Ferry "High Bar Ferry", and then goes on to completely screw up other local names, such as calling the Fraser Canyon south from Moran as Marble Canyon (which is 10 miles east of the spot in question), so it's not anything like reliable. Still looking for t hat other mention of someone using the High Bar Ferry; anyway it seems that the name can be changed to High Bar Ferry, though of course you'd still like a cite that it existed; my friend's trying to see what he can find, maybe something in local planning documents etc. When I made this as "Low Bar Ferry" I was going by the name BC Archives uses....but there is no "Low Bar" in BCGNIS, while there is "High Bar". My friend says there was a ferry at this location, and that it was just south of Watson Bar Creek...I came across mention of a Marguerite Ferry in FN-related documents; Marguerite, British Columbia is on the Fraser south of Quesnel; I also think there was a Chimney Creek Bridge as well as Soda Creek, etc....Skookum1 (talk) 16:16, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

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