BRALORNE —
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BRITISH COLUMBIA :
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Photo-story by

Ed and Jean MacKenzie

“I want to get away from
it all!” Everybody says it.
“Back to nature. Where the
air is clean and I can hear
the wind in the trees.’’ And
then comes the af-
terthought: ‘‘But not too far
from a good supermarket, of
course.”’. - :

"Unhappily, those con-
ditions don’t often coincide. |

But a good approximation

of the dream is the mountain.

town of -Bralorne, 75 miles

(120. kilometres) west of -
Lillooet, . off. British..

Columbia Highway 12.. The

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Labor Day in Burns Lake?

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It'stheir 33rd
Annual Fair

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Sx 2-day C.H.S.A, horse show 7

a livestock & produce display |

* giant Sunday BBQ .

* G.LL.A. Loggers Day

FEATURE
| ENTERTAINER —

Saturday Only

10, ENTERTAINMENT, THE HERALD, Wed. Sept. 1, 1976

A TRAVEL BRITISH COLUMBIA FEATURE §

town is quiet. The air is
fragrant with the scent of
wild roses, The steady rush
of the mountain breeze sets
the aspen leaves fluttering.
And — although there’s no
supermarket -— a_ wide -
range of supplies is stocked
in the spacious general
store. .
Bralorne offers a happy
blend of convenience and
rusticity. You travel there
on a good gravel road and

find modest accommodation, _

with electric’ light, piped
‘water and telephones — yet
miles of wilderness await

you only. a few hundred ©

yards from the door.
Five years ago Bralorne

_— one time site of one of

~ Canada's richest gold mines

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Now the town is coming to _
P life again. Half the property
has already been sold, much
of it to city-dwellers seeking

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retreat. Once neglected
houses are bright with fresh
 Spaint, curtains biow at
many open windows .and

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— was a ghost town with neat kitchen gardens are
only a few of its 200 homes producing chard, beans,and
Rstill occupied. The mines rhubarb, _ “
) had shut down, the people © Many of the newcomers
brelocated, the school and are weekenders, but a
‘shops: closed.
. But the hiking and ski at work re-furbishing -their .
trailg were’ there. The houses with an eye to per-
‘streams continued to yield “manent occupancy. And the
Q their limit of fighting trout, town with its store, its up-
2 and every summer the high dated sewer system, pure
-Gslopes-were decked with the water supply and bright, red
crimson, gold, blue and fire engine is ready for —
S white of acres of mountain them. a.
The former hospital has . -
Frank, been leased for conversion
¥ John and Jerry Whiting saw to a year-round recreation
y the town’s possibilities as a lodge for skiers, hunters:and
Svacation and retirement fishermen and that ac-
centre. They formed a commodation will augment
Scompany, bought the town - the tourist facilities.
Rfrom the mining company . _ _
Yand subdivided it.

surprising number are hard

An old cottage near Bralorne

“There’s an opportunity

for

people
’ busifiesses here now,”’ says
energetic John Whiting.
“We need a good mechanic
to run the gas station and
we'd like somebody to take
over the store. A bakery —
just starting small, from
somebody’s home — would

be great!”

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As people move back in,
Bralorne is once again
becoming a focus for the
surrounding area, A com-
munity dance to celebrate
the First-of July attracted
250 people from as far away -
as Lillooet and Pemberton.

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