Highway 3 carves through Richter Pass as it

follows the route of the Dewdney Trail.

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A modern
fairytale

By DONNA KING
The Canadian Press

* Ts there such a thing as

a modern fairytale? Or
are ancient fairytales
merely rewritten in the
minds of dreamers?

Has there ever really
~ been a casual love. affair

_ or aré most designed for

sensitively written tale of
two persons caught in a
situation which at times
proves more than they
can handle.

To add to the emotional
intensity’ | between the
lovers, Mrs. Fraser in-
corporates “mental im-

' THE HERALD. Friday, Aprii 21, 1978,

‘The Dewdney Trail- fun to travel

One_ of. B.C. “funto- In addition, there was Ya 500 ‘British’? It wound east, often Wild Horse, following the
travel” roads is Trans- an very real ‘danger tha merines if the miners “within pistol shot” of the golden will-o'- -the- “wip to
Canada Highway 3—that’s the strong failed to obey Her U.S. border and followed fresh strikers farth

broad,. smooth belt of.
that winds
eastward over the
Cascade, Monashee and
Selkirk mountain ranges
to the Purcellis,. the
Rockies and the Alberta’
border.

For . much of this the gold fields, passed throughKeremeos 1865, miners were Manning Park boudary
length, fe ihe Deve vovernor James Douglas and Osoyoos to Rock already moving out of east of Hope.

the route of the Dewdney acted quickly: Young eck, $§§-  $—_ pegsesacosccececcaccocoocas

Trail, a mule track built Edgar Dewdney was In 1864, another gold

for. the- eager pad:
seekers of the 1860's.

The Similkameen and
Rock Creek gold strikers
were made soon after a
historic discoveries along

‘population and com:
mercial interests would
averwhelm  ‘‘British’'
claims to the territory.

It was, therefore,
imperative that a
“British”. route be cut.
through the moutains to

commissioned to build a

12 metre-wide pack trail

fo the diggings.

Ina clget o foree U.S
miners to recognize
“British” sovereignty of

Majesty's laws.

_ The trail’s first section
was soon completed to
orks--the

Vermillion
present Princeton.

The following year
the _ By the time Dewdney’s

work began on

second section, which

strike was made at Wild
Horse Creek, in the East
Kootenays. Dewdney was
called again to extend his

“trail,

the valley below Red north.
Mountain and the yet-to-
be discovered Rossland,
gold mines, to Fort
Steele, and the diggings track.

at Wild Horse.

Trail was completed in

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Such optimistic reports
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But the surly US.
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they. stoned the Queen’s
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AS a result, “British”
gold was leaving the
country in the pockets of
U.S. merchants- a

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y businessmen in New
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PROPHECY

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ages from an imaginary

He promised, first, a road
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