Part 11 of our road trip across Northern Quebec and Eastern Canada. Continuing our drive up the 389 from Baie-Comeau to Labrador City, we explored the remains of a forest fire and stumbled upon the ghost town of Ville de Gagnon.
Thanks to David Dietlein for allowing us to use some of his old (1962-1963) family photos of Ville De Gagnon prior to its destruction. Check out his website for more: http://home.i-zoom.net/~dietlein/Gagnon/Home.html
David also has a great collection of home movies from the same time period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLQzRg-7MlU
Thanks again David!
Where did you learn your french? Here in quebec we learn english in schools, and I found out that not a lot of english speaking canadian know french. I love your french accent (It is cute) lol. Like every other video of yours this one is awesome :p Have a good trip!
I love your videos and watching your journey through Canada. I am an American married to a Canadian from Fredrichton, NB, and your video series has been so informative. I hope you a d Paula are having a great time! Do you have to go back to work soon?
See, now if I had a History teacher like you when I was a kid, I may have been a better student. This History lesson was fun, interesting and complete with vintage photos. Tres bien merci 🙂
Very cool video! Please post more often!!!
That forest fire wad two summer ago. that bridge you were onto almost burned.
you really don't have trouble with your french; maybe they don't understand canadian english. they ysually do flip flops and somersaults when we hit them with americaneze english. But a good pbj usually solves all language problems and pronunciations. after all a canadian,a frenchman, and american and a german were having a very good conversation after a couple pints of ale; all languages sound the same.have a safe trip and a fun one.
Great video bud. Let me know when you guys are back in town. I'd love to treat you guys to a meal cooked on a 4 burner stove 🙂
Dude..you're so Canadian! now I feel bad..you just struck as a kind of guy interested on how that was pronounced. You are actually doing awesome with all those names..no more shout-outs. Love your content, great info and trip..hope to meet you guys one day if you ever come to say Brechin, On!
Very good video, i live in Ville de Gagnon 1961 to 1985
This is a really fun and informative VLOG and hope there will be more of them. Fun to follow your adventures.
I have really enjoyed your videos and hope you have enough footage in the can to keep us on the road with you two for a while longer. Our oldest daughter is married to a Canadian and lives in Snow Lake Manitoba, about 500 Miles north of Winnipeg. Snow lake is a small mining town and our so in law works for the mine.our 12 Year old granddaughter never knew what warm weather was like until she visited relatives in Texas in the summer time now she knows what 110 deg F feels like.
Your french is very good and I learned a lot on a subject that is already forgotten by many people from here.
Amazed to follow your trip, keep goin'!
Hello to you both! Thank you for responding to my comments. I sincerely appreciate it. I enjoy interacting with people on YouTube, especially folks like you who have similar outlooks on life.
This video was interesting as I enjoy discovering the histories of areas of the world and it's people that would not be included in traditional school history books. Of course, I also love to absorb the histories of my home country. So please continue to include the historical aspects of your trip. Be safe! Bonjour!
i wish i lived in 1970's Gagnon, what a truly beautiful place to live, the architecture was perfect. and i love your videos
you guys have an awesome life … ^^
thanks guy's I look on heaps of video of the city de gagnon i never heard of it before watching you video
I actually live in Labrador city! The forest fire lasted about 2 weeks straight burning burning down several cabins
And actually Labrador city is close to getting a ghost down due to the prices of iron ore going down 40 dollars a ton
In my channel I have a video called "RIP Cabin" it shows my old cabin and later in the video is the remains from the fire you guys should check it out:)
So, I'm kind of late chiming i here… but I believe the wild flowers you saw in the burnt forest are columbine. Enjoying your video blog here of your trip!
We went right through there last year and loved the area. The entire highway 389 was amazing, as was the Trans Labrador highway that we did next.
Thanks for sharing your research and thank goodness you have something better than plastic mugs to drink your wine from!
I was in Gagnon when that fire burned, I go to lake Barbel (Gagnon) every spring and summer with freinds who were born in Gagnon. A lot of old timers have gone back to fish the lake. We have a fishing camp 25 miles north of Gagnon. I have a few youtube vidéos of this area, in this one at 2:19 you see the south part of the manicouagan reservoir and at 15;34 you have rené levasseur island, https://youtu.be/AFPN32SePhc
For curtains, you could use some fiberglass fabric used to fix holes in car bodies.
co,,,ol,,, my dad was a civil engineer on the building of the town and mine our family lived there in 1958-1960 we were in the fire evacuation my dad was a copilot on one of the dc3s and i sat on his lap for a bit during the flight it was awesome, huge billowing smoke and fire everywhere and a pile of really upset passengers in the back ,, most of my memories involved two factors ,,,, the bugs ,,,, the snow
hope you enjoy it….next time …try to catch a trout…there's many in the Barbel Lake
The heat from the fires also opens the bracts of the spruce cones, which allows for seed dispersal, which in turn germinate and grow into new spruce trees.
I just came across this town on a Google Maps trip. Says 'village' and then there's no village. ^^ You just don't expect ghost towns, or its last remains.
Thank you for your video. I bet it was a beautiful trip.
why did you need ( privacy ) in the middle of nowhere ? we're their moose's looking in your window ?
In 1975, i met a girl who grew up in Gagnon in London,England. She thought no one had ever heard of the place, however Yves, whom I’d had known since the first grade at school had been her boyfriend! Small world!