Blair Rifle Range

History of the Blair Range AKA cmhc lands on Seymour. Very well researched document. I encourage anyone with first hand knowledge to add their experience here. Any builders ever find shells? Anyone know where the grenade dump is?

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Nice find.

A review of historic air photographs from the UBC librayr may help to identify evidence of the location of dump sites, however that will all depend on the resiltution of the photos. I wonder if the site investigations completed by Golder et. al. included no intrusive tecghniques such as GPR or EM surveys. Probably the best way to find munictians dumps if present.

Might want to dig softly, softly with the old matic.

what's interesting is i've found a DND sign while working on my trail.

hmmm, looking at the map in that link it would appear that a big chunk of salvation is on cmhc property. this makes sense as i know where the DNV marker is on my trail, roughly at the last third.

this also means all of corkscrew is cmhc property and not metro land.

Very interesting. I had seen reference to a rifle range on maps and wondered what it was about. I found some great salmon berries while on a walk through there with my daughter last month.

what's interesting is i've found a DND sign while working on my trail.

hmmm, looking at the map in that link it would appear that a big chunk of salvation is on cmhc property. this makes sense as i know where the DNV marker is on my trail, roughly at the last third.

this also means all of corkscrew is cmhc property and not metro land.

Check out this map from Metro

http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/parks/ParksPublications/LSCRTrailMap.pdf

Check out this map from Metro

http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/parks/ParksPublications/LSCRTrailMap.pdf

yeah, i've seen that one a bunch. but after looking at the map in the linked report and other maps in some other other recent threads it appears that metro's/lscr's published maps are not entirely correct.

what's interesting is i've found a DND sign while working on my trail.

Was a DND rifle range till 1968 and was used by all the local regiments. Prior to WW2 was one of 73 Relief Camps in BC during the depression era.

deepcoveheritage.com/wp.../Blair-Rifle-Range.Donna-Sacuto-2014.

yeah, i've seen that one a bunch. but after looking at the map in the linked report and other maps in some other other recent threads it appears that metro's/lscr's published maps are not entirely correct.

Do you ever see any blaze marks on the trees? Most of the bush around my dads place is still marked like this. If there are any older trees standing with notches you should be able to see the historic property lines. See this link here. I know I've seen a few on the shore so it was common at one time.

http://www.blm.gov/cadastral/Manual/73man/id161.htm

Great Article
I grew up on the North shore, I am 56 now, when i was 18 we rode our MX bikes here, no one bothered us, there were hardly any trees, you could see all the humps of the range, we used these to make jumps. No gates, you could drive right in. Some days there were at least 15 of us riding here. A school mate was in a very bad crash on his Husqavarna, paralyzed from the neck down, happened at the bunker. Now you couldn't even start a MX bike without the cops being called out, and that is a good thing.
I am also amazed how grown in it has become.

Very interesting article, all the details of that area and more. And it seems nothing is going to change there. No one is talking. And I'm staying out of that area after reading the parts about UXOs! Even the dumping of contaminated soil into the creeks is bad.

Thanks for sharing. I grew up on Plymouth Drive. My first epic (I thought at the time) was to ride the range…. then stop at Mac's(bottom of Seymour) for a slurpee.

Thanks for sharing. I grew up on Plymouth Drive. My first epic (I thought at the time) was to ride the range…. then stop at Mac's(bottom of Seymour) for a slurpee.

That's awesome Mike, You have me trippin down memory lane. Then next door to Dial a Movie to rent Hot Dog the ski movie, ( if we could get away with it). Riding up Seymour Parkway was like climbing Alpe de Huez on the old Norco Saquatch.
Recall eating a shit burger in the Range riding thru one of those creeks where the golf course is now. Over inflated tires the culprit? Who knew back then.

Cheers

Do you ever see any blaze marks on the trees? Most of the bush around my dads place is still marked like this. If there are any older trees standing with notches you should be able to see the historic property lines. See this link here. I know I've seen a few on the shore so it was common at one time.

http://www.blm.gov/cadastral/Manual/73man/id161.htm

i've seen a few scattered here and there, but nothing to indicate property lines.