{"id":62336,"date":"2025-12-10T23:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=62336"},"modified":"2026-01-01T23:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:31:44","slug":"a-wild-route-to-telegraph-creek-a-remote-community-in-british-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/12\/10\/a-wild-route-to-telegraph-creek-a-remote-community-in-british-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"A wild route to Telegraph Creek, a remote community in British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is the second largest country in the world, but it only has 41 million inhabitants, 8 million less than Spain.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/07\/30\/touring-a-beautiful-and-unfrequented-mountain-area-of-british-columbia\/\">Touring a beautiful and unfrequented mountain area of British Columbia<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/04\/26\/canadas-matryoshka-island-an-island-in-a-lake-on-an-island-in-a-lake-on-an-island\/\">Canada's matryoshka island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of Canada's western provinces is British Columbia.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/07\/30\/touring-a-beautiful-and-unfrequented-mountain-area-of-british-columbia\/\">As I told you here a few months ago<\/a>, calling it a \"province\" can be misleading for those who know the place, since <strong>British Columbia covers an area of \u200b\u200b944,735 square kilometers (Spain has 506,030)<\/strong>. Many places are difficult to access due to the mountain ranges that shape its geography. <strong>In some places, they are fortunate to have dirt roads.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One such place is <strong>Telegraph Creek<\/strong>, a remote community that is the capital of the Tahltan First Nation. <strong>This village is ideal for anyone who doesn't want a big city: only 250 people live there<\/strong>, 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. <strong>The village's name originates from the construction of a telegraph line between the United States and Russia between 1865 and 1867<\/strong>, an ambitious project to connect the North American and European telegraph networks, which was never completed.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, the YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ArtWeThereYet\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Art We There Yet?<\/a> <strong>published a magnificent video traveling the road to that remote village<\/strong>. The video's protagonists are two artists named Cora and Jos\u00e9 who travel in a school bus converted into an art studio, towing a Jeep Wrangler. <strong>They have traveled 48,000 kilometers through 23 countries in North, Central, and South America.<\/strong> I found the video's production to be fabulous.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u200b\u200bThe Epic Road tied to a Forgotten Page of Human History\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uaDo4IkQllo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can see some screenshots of this excellent video here.<\/strong> I loved the voiceover, the script, and the visuals; it's an example of the best you can find on that multimedia portal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54976803950_2b69945e67_o.jpg?s=eyJpIjo1NDk3NjgwMzk1MCwiZSI6MTc2NTQwOTAyOSwicyI6IjJhMzQyOTgxYmRhNmEzMzU5YTFiYzdhN2VjYjA2NWMzNTdhYTM5ZjUiLCJ2IjoxfQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54976803950_8efd427484_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54976753869_b4faf5b6eb_o.jpg?s=eyJpIjo1NDk3Njc1Mzg2OSwiZSI6MTc2NTQwOTA1MSwicyI6ImMwNDY0MWYwNWQ2OWM1OWNhNjFiNGM5YmZjMDU0MWU0YTY1NGMwZjQiLCJ2IjoxfQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54976753869_27fcfc64c6_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54976508586_7ea390ef87_o.jpg?s=eyJpIjo1NDk3NjUwODU4NiwiZSI6MTc2NTQwOTA3NiwicyI6IjZjMTk4Y2Y4NzIzM2E3YWEwYTFkZmQ1MjczZDNkMDIxODE4NTFiNmMiLCJ2IjoxfQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54976508586_5fac61db4f_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54976753864_426f8a1482_o.jpg?s=eyJpIjo1NDk3Njc1Mzg2NCwiZSI6MTc2NTQwOTA5MCwicyI6ImMzZTNjNTg2YjI0YWU1YTI2ZjAzYmQ0YjVhOGZiNWMyZWJmODk4YmYiLCJ2IjoxfQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54976753864_fb82e34a31_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Images: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ArtWeThereYet\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Art We There Yet?<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is the second largest country in the world, but it only has 41 million inhabitants, 8 million less than Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19075,19535],"tags":[1479,16784,25927,25929],"class_list":["post-62336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-routes","category-exploring-portada-eng","tag-canada","tag-british-columbia","tag-telegraph-creek","tag-tahltan-first-nation"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 23:43:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}