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Sunday, June 05, 2005

See the Sights in Dawson Creek

Today there was suppose to be a rodeo on in town so Ed, Frances and Me (Margaret) decided to check it out. Colin stayed back to work on some tax stuff. We drove out to where we thought it was but there was nothing happening there so we decided to head back to the information office in town. Okay the rodeo got cancelled so we walked around the Art Gallery and then took in the 1 hour documentary about the building of the Alaska Highway. It was built in 1942 as a means to connect military bases within BC and Alaska. Starting out as basically a mud trail it did the job and was improved upon as time went by. They built as many as 4 miles of the trail a day in some places. There were many river that had to be bridged including the Peace River. For this a used bridge was purchased from the US and hastily reconstructed on the site. It was such a poor job that it only lasted for 5 years before in came crashing down and had to be replaced. Today the highway is almost all paved and some sections have been rerouted to take advantage of better topography.

After the movie we went to the Walter Wright Pioneer Village and checked out the old buildings set up for viewing. We all were a little unnerved by the number of items that were familiar to us. Things that we actually had in our homes when we were growing up. Just as we were leaving it started to pour ran and we made it back to the trailer park just in time.

Colin, Ed and Frances took off after that to go to a bird sanctuary and while they were gone and went and did the laundry.



Large Section of Tree With Burls on it





Retirement School???






Bird




Posted by: Colin & Margaret & Splash Werner / Sunday, June 05, 2005  


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