A wild route to Telegraph Creek, a remote community in British Columbia

Canada is the second largest country in the world, but it only has 41 million inhabitants, 8 million less than Spain.

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One of Canada's western provinces is British Columbia. As I told you here a few months ago, calling it a "province" can be misleading for those who know the place, since British Columbia covers an area of ​​944,735 square kilometers (Spain has 506,030). Many places are difficult to access due to the mountain ranges that shape its geography. In some places, they are fortunate to have dirt roads.

One such place is Telegraph Creek, a remote community that is the capital of the Tahltan First Nation. This village is ideal for anyone who doesn't want a big city: only 250 people live there, yet it has a Catholic church, an Anglican church, a medical clinic, a post office, and a Royal Canadian Mounted Police outpost with two officers. The village's name originates from the construction of a telegraph line between the United States and Russia between 1865 and 1867, an ambitious project to connect the North American and European telegraph networks, which was never completed.

Two weeks ago, the YouTube channel Art We There Yet? published a magnificent video traveling the road to that remote village. The video's protagonists are two artists named Cora and José who travel in a school bus converted into an art studio, towing a Jeep Wrangler. They have traveled 48,000 kilometers through 23 countries in North, Central, and South America. I found the video's production to be fabulous.

You can see some screenshots of this excellent video here. I loved the voiceover, the script, and the visuals; it's an example of the best you can find on that multimedia portal.

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Images: Art We There Yet?.