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Mowgli-dog
   
location:
Vancouver, B.C.
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 40 on 4/17/2010 7:50 AM >
|  | | | I've never heard of Chinese people being "forced to live underground" while building railway tunnels. Many Chinese workers were used in railway tunnel construction on the original CP Rail line, lots of tunnels were blasted particularly in the Fraser Canyon area. During construction of the railway (1881-1884) Chinese workers filled a gap created by a shortage of labor required for the massive project. Were they mistreated? Probably. Paid half of what white people made at the time? Yep. Forced to live underground? No.
While I'm sure there were Opium Dens in basements of some buildings 100 years ago, I'm pretty sure the space you were in had nothing to do with Chinese people and everything to do with the City insisting that the Railway come up with a solution to moving trains from the waterfront to the False Creek area without disrupting traffic. The Dunsmuir tunnel was built in 1932, prior to that, the movement of several trains daily from the waterfront to False Creek would paralyze the City.
You should explore the Vancouver Archives or Special Collections on the top floor of the library downtown. Lots of times you can solve the 'what's behind that door' mystery and not destroy things in the process.
"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." -George Orwell
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Agent Skelly
     
Web Sheriff
location:
Oregon Territory
Gender: Male
Prenez De L'Avance Avec Chrysler!
| |  |  | | Re: underground tunnels - downtown Van
<Reply # 41 on 4/17/2010 11:22 AM >
| | | | I'm wondering if perhaps he was referring to the Chinese labor used to build the Northern Pacific line from the US (present day BNSF line from the US)
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Warcrimes
Respectully Closed - Member is Deceased
location:
Edmonton
Gender: Male
| | Re: underground tunnels - downtown Van
<Reply # 42 on 4/17/2010 11:42 PM >
| | | | I dont live in Van anymore so I dont see myself going to the library there anytime soon. However I happen to like my tools of my trade they open doors to places I want to go. If you dont like it thats your deal last time I checked there wasnt any rules governing UE....last time I checked it was still illegal to tresspass so whats the big deal.
With the Opium dens under downtown. that is just what we got from reading up on them. (as there were wooden bunks attached to the wall of the tunnels) our info on chinese people living underground could be wrong but it doesnt really matter to me at any rate. we got in, the tunnels were fucking epic.
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Mowgli-dog
location:
Vancouver, B.C.
Gender: Male
| | | Re: underground tunnels - downtown Van
<Reply # 43 on 4/18/2010 1:22 AM >
| | | | Ok, too bad you don't live in Vancouver any more. Have fun in Edmonton 
"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." -George Orwell
Rest in peace, my pal Mowgli - the best dog there ever was. |
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FrancoisL
location:
North Vancouver
Gender: Male
| | Re: underground tunnels - downtown Van
<Reply # 44 on 4/22/2010 4:00 AM >
| | | | Posted by Yaweh Qanna
Not unused, but the Thornton Tunnel is a rail tunnel that travels under East Vancouver/Burnaby. From what I understand of it, it starts at the south end of the Second Narrows rail bridge and comes out Dawson Street between Madison and Rosser Avenue.
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First time posting here, and wanting to get into urban exploring in/around Vancouver, but I would highly recommend not going into that tunnel. My father works as the Bridge Tender for the bridge at the entrance to the tunnel. It is under camera surveillance by the bridge tender, who may or may not call the RCMP or CN police if you go in. There are about 2-3 trains at night and about 5 during the day, a bit of a safety hazard if your in the tunnel at the time.
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SteamPunk
location:
Sailing the seas of sleaze.
| | Re: underground tunnels - downtown Van
<Reply # 45 on 4/24/2010 3:33 PM >
| | | | Posted by FrancoisL
First time posting here, and wanting to get into urban exploring in/around Vancouver, but I would highly recommend not going into that tunnel. My father works as the Bridge Tender for the bridge at the entrance to the tunnel. It is under camera surveillance by the bridge tender, who may or may not call the RCMP or CN police if you go in. There are about 2-3 trains at night and about 5 during the day, a bit of a safety hazard if your in the tunnel at the time.
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Your father has a thick accent, perhaps? Does he ever work on the Fraser river bridge? Nice to have you on board! Welcome to the forum. Good advice. Going in that tunnel is a very bad idea. Some have done it, and some have seen that episode of "To Serve and Protect"!
[last edit 4/24/2010 3:41 PM by SteamPunk - edited 4 times]
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too! |
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digital_me
 
location:
Colorado
Gender: Male
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
| | | Re: underground tunnels - downtown Van
<Reply # 47 on 6/17/2010 2:47 AM >
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you can see into the tunnel from a couple of different places under van. all there is keeping you out is a couple of measly electric razor wire fences!
but what's this? some dude in a poorly photoshopped hockey mask in front of the tunnel? don't pay him any mind
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Zikan
location:
North Shore
Gender: Male
| | Re: underground tunnels - downtown Van
<Reply # 48 on 6/21/2010 6:52 PM >
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Posted by Agent Skelly
There was a website circa 2004 that went through some of the common
rumours of tunnels in Vancouver and I cannot remember what it was
called now.
Jester I think knows what I am talking about.
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Posted by Jester
I think you're talking about the 99% insane "purple crow"s site which
showed various Vancouver sites along with his conspiracy theories
about reptilian overlords...
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Now that was an interesting website! I actually found the bookmark on
my old computer and it looks like archive.org has archived part of the
site.
http://web.archive...27/ThePassage.html
http://web.archive...ies.com/Reptoid_27
His page dedicated to Vancouver's underground:
http://web.archive...d_27/Library2.html
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SteamPunk
location:
Sailing the seas of sleaze.
| | Re: underground tunnels - downtown Van
<Reply # 49 on 6/21/2010 8:55 PM >
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It never used to be like that there. 20 years ago it was very different, and was even a good dry, safe, yet loud place to sleep.
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