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Gold Trails and Ghost Towns is a Canadian historical documentary show, created and produced by television station CHBC-TV in Kelowna, British Columbia for Canadian syndication and hosted by Mike Roberts with historian/storyteller Bill Barlee.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 94 relations: Ainsworth Hot Springs, Anyox, Ashcroft, British Columbia, Atlin, British Columbia, Édouard-Gaston Deville, Barkerville, Bill Barlee, Bill Miner, Blakeburn, Bridge River, British Columbia, British Columbia Provincial Police, Broadcast syndication, Camp McKinney, British Columbia, Cariboo Road, Cascade City, Cassiar, British Columbia, Charles Marion Russell, CHBC-DT, Chinese Canadians in British Columbia, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Cumberland, British Columbia, Dawson Creek, Dewdney Trail, Dollis Creek, Eholt, F. Augustus Heinze, Fairview, British Columbia, Fernie, British Columbia, Fort St. James, Francis Rattenbury, Frank, Alberta, Gabriel Dumont (Métis leader), Golden, British Columbia, Grand Forks, British Columbia, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Granite Creek townsite, British Columbia, Greenwood, British Columbia, Hedley, British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company, James J. Hill, Kaslo, Kaslo and Slocan Railway, Kathleen Rockwell, Kelowna, Keremeos, Kettle Valley Railway, Kimberley, British Columbia, Lardeau, Lightning Creek (British Columbia), ... Expand index (44 more) »

  2. 1980s Canadian documentary television series
  3. 1990s Canadian documentary television series
  4. Culture of Kelowna
  5. First-run syndicated television shows in Canada

Ainsworth Hot Springs

Ainsworth Hot Springs, previously named Ainsworth, is a historic village on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada and has a population of 20.

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Anyox

Anyox was a small company-owned mining town in British Columbia, Canada.

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Ashcroft, British Columbia

Ashcroft is a village municipality that straddles the Thompson River in the Thompson Country region of south central British Columbia, Canada.

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Atlin, British Columbia

Atlin (Tlingit: Wéinaa) is a community in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located on the eastern shore of Atlin Lake.

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Édouard-Gaston Deville

Édouard-Gaston Daniel Deville, (February 21, 1849 – September 21, 1924) was the first to perfect a practical method of photogrammetry, the making of maps based on photography.

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Barkerville

Barkerville was the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada, and is preserved as a historic town.

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Bill Barlee

Neville Langrell "Bill" Barlee (October 6, 1932 – June 14, 2012) was a Canadian politician who was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a New Democrat in 1988 (after unsuccessfully running in the 1969 and 1972 provincial elections).

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Bill Miner

Ezra Allen Miner (1847 – September 2, 1913), more popularly known as Bill Miner, was an American bandit, originally from Kentucky, who served several prison terms for stagecoach robbery.

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Blakeburn

Blakeburn, also known as the Blakeburn Site, is an abandoned locality and former coal mine and coal mining town located southwest of the confluence of Granite Creek and the Tulameen River, across the latter from the surviving coal mining hamlet in the area, Coalmont, which was the railhead for the Blakeburn Mine Railway, connecting it to the Kettle Valley Railway.

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Bridge River

The Bridge River is an approximately long river in southern British Columbia.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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British Columbia Provincial Police

The British Columbia Provincial Police (BCPP) was the provincial police service of British Columbia, Canada, between 1858 and 1950.

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Broadcast syndication

Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on.

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Camp McKinney, British Columbia

Camp McKinney is a ghost town in the Boundary Country region of British Columbia, Canada.

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Cariboo Road

The Cariboo Road (also called the Cariboo Wagon Road, the Great North Road or the Queen's Highway) was a project initiated in 1860 by the Governor of the Colony of British Columbia, James Douglas.

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Cascade City

Cascade City or Cascade was a Canadian Pacific Railway construction era boom town in the Boundary Country of the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada.

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Cassiar, British Columbia

Cassiar is a ghost town in British Columbia, Canada.

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Charles Marion Russell

Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926), also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West.

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CHBC-DT

CHBC-DT (channel 2) is a television station in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, part of the Global Television Network.

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Chinese Canadians in British Columbia

The history of Chinese Canadians in British Columbia began with the first recorded visit by Chinese people to North America in 1788.

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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Coeur d'Alene (Awl) is a city and the county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho, United States.

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Cumberland, British Columbia

Cumberland is an incorporated village municipality east of Perseverance Creek, near the east coast of central Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

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Dawson Creek

Dawson Creek is a city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada.

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Dewdney Trail

The Dewdney Trail is a trail in British Columbia, Canada, that served as a major thoroughfare in mid-19th century British Columbia.

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Dollis Creek

Dollis Creek (formerly Squaw Creek) is a creek that spans the border between British Columbia and the Yukon.

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Eholt

Eholt is in the Boundary Country region of south central British Columbia.

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F. Augustus Heinze

Frederick "Fritz" Augustus Heinze (December 5, 1869 – November 4, 1914) was an American businessman, known as one of the three Copper Kings of Butte, Montana, along with William Andrews Clark and Marcus Daly.

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Fairview, British Columbia

Fairview is a ghost town in British Columbia on the west side of the Okanagan River between Cawston and Oliver.

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Fernie, British Columbia

Fernie is a city in the Elk Valley area of the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, Canada, located on BC Highway 3 on the western approaches to the Crowsnest Pass through the Rocky Mountains.

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Fort St. James

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Francis Rattenbury

Francis Mawson Rattenbury (11 October 1867 – 28 March 1935) was a British architect although most of his career was spent in British Columbia, Canada, where he designed the province's legislative building among other public commissions.

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Frank, Alberta

Frank is an urban community in the Rocky Mountains within the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass in southwest Alberta, Canada.

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Gabriel Dumont (Métis leader)

Gabriel Dumont (1837–1906) was a Métis political figure best known for being a prominent leader of the Métis people.

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Golden, British Columbia

Golden is a town in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, west of Calgary, Alberta, and east of Vancouver.

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Grand Forks, British Columbia

Grand Forks is a city in the Boundary Country of the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada.

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Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was a historic Canadian transcontinental railway running from Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, a Pacific coast port.

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Granite Creek townsite, British Columbia

"Granite City" is the informal name for the mining settlement located near Granite Creek.

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Greenwood, British Columbia

Greenwood (2021 population 702) is a city in south central British Columbia.

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Hedley, British Columbia

Hedley is an unincorporated community near the mouth of Hedley Creek in the Similkameen region of southern British Columbia.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.

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James J. Hill

James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916) was a Canadian-American railroad director.

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Kaslo

Kaslo is a village on the west shore of Kootenay Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.

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Kaslo and Slocan Railway

The Kaslo and Slocan Railway (K&S) is a historic railway that operated in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia in western Canada.

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Kathleen Rockwell

Kathleen Eloise Rockwell (October 4, 1873/1876/1880 (year of birth disputed) – February 21, 1957), known as "Klondike Kate" and later known as Kate Rockwell Warner Matson Van Duren, was an American dancer and vaudeville star during the Klondike Gold Rush, where she met Alexander Pantages who later became a very successful vaudeville/motion picture mogul.

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Kelowna

Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Keremeos

Keremeos is a village in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Kettle Valley Railway

The Kettle Valley Railway was a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) that operated across southern British Columbia, west of Midway running to Rock Creek, then north to Myra Canyon, down to Penticton over to Princeton, Coalmont, Brookmere, Coquihalla and finally Hope where it connected to the main CPR line.

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Kimberley, British Columbia

Kimberley is a city in southeast British Columbia, Canada along Highway 95A between the Purcell and Rocky Mountains.

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Lardeau

Lardeau is an unincorporated community, and former mining town and steamboat landing.

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Lightning Creek (British Columbia)

Lightning Creek is a creek located in the Cariboo region of British Columbia.

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Lillooet

Lillooet is a district municipality in the Squamish-Lillooet region of southwestern British Columbia.

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Lytton, British Columbia

Lytton is a village of about 250 residents in southern British Columbia, Canada, on the east side of the Fraser River and primarily the south side of the Thompson River, where it flows southwesterly into the Fraser.

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Matthew Baillie Begbie

Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie (9 May 1819 – 11 June 1894) was a British lawyer, politician, and judge.

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Merritt, British Columbia

Merritt is a city in the Nicola Valley of the south-central Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Mesa Verde National Park

Mesa Verde National Park is an American national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, and the only World Heritage Site in Colorado.

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Midway, British Columbia

Midway is in the West Kootenay region of south central British Columbia.

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Milk River Natural Area

Milk River Natural Area is a provincially designated protected area in the southeastern corner of the province of Alberta, Canada, approximately 160 km south of the city of Medicine Hat.

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Moyie, British Columbia

Moyie is an unincorporated community in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada.

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Nelson, British Columbia

Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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New Denver

New Denver is a village in the Central Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada at the mouth of Carpenter Creek, on the east shore of Slocan Lake, in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.

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New Hazelton

New Hazelton is a district municipality on the south side of the Bulkley River in the Skeena region of west central British Columbia, Canada.

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Nome, Alaska

Nome ((Sitŋasuaq,, also Sitŋazuaq, Siqnazuaq)) is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the US state of Alaska.

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North-West Mounted Police

The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian paramilitary police force, established in 1873, to maintain order in the new Canadian North-West Territories (NWT) following the 1870 transfer of Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, the Red River Rebellion and in response to lawlessness, demonstrated by the subsequent Cypress Hills Massacre and fears of United States military intervention.

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Northport, Washington

Northport is a town in Stevens County, Washington, United States.

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Okanagan

The Okanagan, also called the Okanagan Valley and sometimes the Okanagan Country, is a region in the Canadian province of British Columbia defined by the basin of Okanagan Lake and the Canadian portion of the Okanagan River.

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Okanagan Lake

Okanagan Lake (kɬúsx̌nítkw) is a lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada.

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Phoenix, British Columbia

Phoenix is a ghost town in the Boundary Country of British Columbia, Canada, 11 km east of Greenwood.

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Prince George, British Columbia

Prince George is a city in British Columbia, Canada, situated at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers.

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Princeton, British Columbia

Princeton is a town municipality in the Similkameen area of southern British Columbia, Canada.

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Quesnel Forks

Quesnel Forks, historically Quesnelle Forks, also simply known as "The Forks" or grandly known as "Quesnel City" is a ghost town in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada.

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Quesnel, British Columbia

Quesnel (Kee-nel in French) is a city located in the Cariboo Regional District of British Columbia, Canada.

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Republic, Washington

Republic is a city in Ferry County, Washington, United States.

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Revelstoke, British Columbia

Revelstoke is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, with a census population of 8,275 in 2021.

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Robert Dunsmuir

Robert Dunsmuir (August 31, 1825April 12, 1889) was a Scottish-born Canadian businessman and politician.

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Rock Creek, British Columbia

Rock Creek is a settlement in the Boundary Country region of south central British Columbia.

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Rossland, British Columbia

Rossland is in the West Kootenay region of south central British Columbia.

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Salmo, British Columbia

Salmo is a village in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.

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Sandon, British Columbia

Sandon is in the foothills of the Selkirk Mountains in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.

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Silverton, British Columbia

Silverton is a village about south of New Denver in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.

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Slocan, British Columbia

The Village of Slocan is in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.

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Smithers, British Columbia

Smithers is a town in northwestern British Columbia, approximately halfway between Prince George and Prince Rupert.

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Soapy Smith

Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II (November 2, 1860 – July 8, 1898) was an American con artist and gangster in the American frontier, and ultimately the Klondike.

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Spences Bridge

Spences Bridge is a community in the Canadian province of British Columbia, situated north east of Lytton and south of Ashcroft.

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Stikine Country

The Stikine Country, also referred to as the Stikine District or simply "the Stikine", is one of the historical geographic regions of the Canadian province of British Columbia, located inland from the central Alaska Panhandle and comprising the basin of the Stikine River and its tributaries.

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Telegraph Creek

Telegraph Creek is a small community located off Highway 37 in northern British Columbia at the confluence of the Stikine River and Telegraph Creek.

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Television in Canada

Television in Canada officially began with the sign-on of the nation's first television stations in Montreal and Toronto in 1952.

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Thompson River

The Thompson River is the largest tributary of the Fraser River, flowing through the south-central portion of British Columbia, Canada.

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Three Forks, British Columbia

Three Forks is a ghost town at the junction of Carpenter, Seaton, and Kane creeks in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.

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Trout Lake, British Columbia

Trout Lake is an unincorporated community in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.

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Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast.

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William Moore (steamship captain)

William Moore (5 June 1825 – 29 March 1909) was a steamship captain, businessman, miner and explorer in British Columbia and Alaska.

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Yale, British Columbia

Yale is an unincorporated town in the Canadian province of British Columbia, which grew in importance during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush.

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Ymir, British Columbia

Ymir is a village in the Selkirk Mountains in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.

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Yukon

Yukon (formerly called the Yukon Territory and referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.

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See also

1980s Canadian documentary television series

1990s Canadian documentary television series

Culture of Kelowna

First-run syndicated television shows in Canada

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Trails_and_Ghost_Towns

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