A new office opening, on
the North Shore February 1
will have over 1,000 workers

has already had visitors to
offer their time and effort for
a good cause.

North Vancouver Cam-
paign Chairman Joy Shake-
speare has announced an
open house at the office

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Saturday, February 5. Inter-
ested persons are asked to
drop in ‘at Suite 3 - 110 West
14th St., North Vancouver
next week between 10 a.m.
and 4 p.m., or to telephone
the office at 986-2331.

vt mail to lakeside settlements
and an occasional cow or
horse“ to an isolated .home-
steader.

Most travellers of the
1970’s enter the Kootenays to
stake their claim toa share of
its natural beauty—which is
breathtaking. Like the old-
timers, they can come from
the United States through
Creston, Rossland and Grand
Forks or they can travel from
Hope: on British Columbia
Highway 3 which in many

‘ places follows the long-ago
- Dewdney trail.- :

By Jean MacKenzie

__ The best things in life are free. And one of the
best things about a trip to British Columbia’s
uncluttered Kootenay country is the free boat

‘ides provided by the Depariment of Highways. .

Boat trips are part of any aculously’ beckoned aboard
holiday in that land of asthe loading crew tuck a car
green-clad mountains and into an impossibly small
long, lovely lakes. These corner or with jocular grunts,
lakes form barriers up to 130 heft a light trailer to one
miles long. filling the steep side. making room for ‘‘iust
valleys between the peaks of one more.’’.
the Monashee, the Slocan ae -
and the Purcell ranges. Too _ . FOUND G@LD

‘LOWER ARROW LAKE ©

‘ From the west and north,
Highway 6 out of Vernon and
Highway 23 from Revelstoke
link up to the .10-minute
‘crossing aboard the Needles-

Fauquier ferry on the Lower

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to by-pass, “the Kootenay, Boat travel on the Koot-
Slocan’and Arrow lakes are enay Lakes goes back to
knit together by a network of .fur-trade days and to the
fine highways and a fleet of
busy—and free—ferry boats.

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30-minute voyage - between
Shelter. Bay.and Galena on
the Upper Lake. -

time.when footsore prospec- = a

tors first arrived, filtering up
from Idaho, Montana and = Arrow Lakes is Castlegar,
Washington. Territory. or junction of the Columbia and
slogging the 300 mountain’ Kootenay Rivers. The cable
miles from Hope along the’ ferries that crossed the

Kootenay ferries come in
several sizes, from the tiny
power-cable Glade _ ferry:
(capacity five cars) that takes

local traffic across the gold at Wild Horse Creek carried more vehicles than
Kootenay River, to ihe vig. and in the red mouniain of any others in the province,
lake ferries carrying 35 or Rossland. | but since the bridge was built

more vehicles. The capacity

in 1967, only one of the
of these boats actually varies

Following the miles of blue hardworking little boats re-

with the skill of the loading water northward, they dis- mains in- service. - Today
crews and’ the iype of . covered silver, lead and zinc. carrying local traffic, the
vehicles coming aboard. By the 1890's a fleet of ferry is handy (but not

. sternwheelers plied the necessary) for a visit to the
Many tourists resigned to watery highways, carrying Keenlyside Dam _ or __ for

waiting for the next ferry, supplies and equipment for camping at Syringa Creek
have found themselves ‘mir- the mines, passengers and Provincial Park.

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