Complex sentence: On weekends, he often closed his sign shop to travel to the Fraser Canyon and the British Columbia interior, where he panned for gold, and he once had a prospector's shack near the Old Alexandra Bridge, in the vicinity of Spuzzum.
Split into simpler sentences: On weekends, he often closed his sign shop to travel to the Fraser Canyon and the British Columbia interior, where he panned for gold. He once had a prospector's shack near the Old Alexandra Bridge, in the vicinity of Spuzzum.