Because of its past connection with Tranquille it was decided that the bus should be moved from the storage in a farmers back field
at Barriere to Tranquille as it use to stop there when it was in service.
At Barriere the bus was stored out in a field along with some wrecked cars where as at Tranquille it will be under a roof.
Craig Beddie, Dave Dickinson, Jerry Wallin, John Bone, John Foley, John Duerksen,
Tim Wourms & truck driver Blaine Foley with his two sons took on the task of moving the bus.
John F started up the light plant to run the compressor
while Craig inflated the tires.
Took a quick look and Jerry
decided the fence had to come down.
started removing the fence.
Next was to push a truck frame of Tim’s that was parked behind the bus out of the way.
With air now in the tires the
idea was to hook
a chain up to the back of the bus and Dave's truck was
to pull it out a little bit on to a level spot and stop
so Jerry could hook on to
the front end and act as anchor as it went down
through the gulley.
Well thinks quickly changed and the bus did not stop on the flat area as planned.
As the bus did not stop or slow down neither did Dave.
Not sure how Tim managed to
steer it standing
up and having no vision out the back of the bus
however it left the field made down through the
gulley and was out on the road.
John
Duerksen commented later that he was
certain that the bus was going to gain enough
momentum and end up in the back of
Dave’s truck however it didn’t.
During the time we were moving
the bus out of
the field Tim’s relative who drives tow truck
for North River Towing out of
Barriere came home.
With the bus out of the field
and on the road it was time to load it on the trailer.
He gave us a helping by winching it up on to the
low bed.
to donate the use of the truck
and Blaine Foley donated his time as driver.
Here it is parked on the
side of Hwy 5
at
McClure as it was now lunch time
we stopped
at the McClure Cafe for lunch.
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"Tranquille”, also referred to as
Padova City, was the “King Edward VII
Tuberculosis Sanatorium”. The area
itself was named “Tranquille” after
the Indian Chief “Sanquil”. Tuberculosis or
consumption or the white plague, was an
epidemic at turn-of-the-century. The land
just outside Kamloops city limits, where
the North and South Thompson meet and flow
into Kamloops Lake, was purchased in 1905
and the tuberculosis hospital began taking
patients by 1907. The site is
approximately 191 acres and by the 1950s
had at least 40 buildings. Tranquille was
operated as a tuberculosis sanatorium from
its inception until 1958 when it was
closed. The facility reopened in 1959 as a
home for the mentally challenged, and was
shut down permanently in 1984; a victim of
government budget cuts. Tranquille has
changed hands several times since then. In
1991, A&A Estates bought Tranquille,
intending to turn the property into an
Italian "homeland" called Padova City. But
the project fell through a couple of years
later. It has been envisioned as an
exclusive resort and a small, completely
self-sufficient, sustainable city. |
Noella enjoying the beautiful fall weather.
as we could not locate the man with the key to the main gate so the bus was pushed off the trailer on to the road
John Foley had to pull it up the hill
through a different gate.
As
the bus was now as close as we were going to get it to
its new
parking spot
it was time for John to roll up the tow ropes and call
it a day.
What
the inside looks like !
