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  • 2026-10-08
    Bill Miner, notorious American stagecoach and train robber, stole $7,000 in British Columbia's first train holdup, near Mission in 1904.…
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    Jackass Mountain - a memorial to a mule. Wearied by its struggle over the steep, twisting Cariboo Road, one loaded…
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    Suddenly on the afternoon of August 13, 1905, the lower side of the mountain slid away. Rumbling across the valley…
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    The name commemorates N-kua-la, a local Indian chief. Settlers in this valley in 1867 named their own village 'The Forks'.…
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    On July 1863, Lord Milton and Dr. Cheadle laboured through this rugged mountain pass on a trans-continental tour. The Englishman,…
  • 2026-10-08
    The Adams River contains the most productive spawning beds in B.C. Each fall the river teems with crimson sockeye salmon.…
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    It has been an epic struggle against the wilderness for the gold-seekers from Eastern Canada. They had crossed the Rockies,…
  • 2026-10-08
    Smooth rivers and great lakes once were the highways of travel. On them plied stately paddle-wheelers, helping exploration and settlement…
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    Water, cutting deeply into the pre-glacial floor of this valley over countless centuries, has gradually eroded the almost vertical dykes…
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    Here bloomed a 'Garden of Eden'. The sagebrush desert changed to orchards through the imagination and industry of English settlers…