Paul St. Pierre PAULITICS & PERSPECTIVES NCEVILLE — When I die and go to Heaven, which 1 expect to happen unless they lose my records or find the wrong ones, | want the place to look like the Wineglass Ranch, The home place of the Wineghass, with warty tay build: ings. fruat trees, cattle, Horses aad the blaig-green Chileo River rustling past That's another roasen (hat Heaven's angels may not find the Winey lass in their record book The place has a wondrous hidden quality toil, You anagine, falsedy, of Course. but imagine that even the tas collectors don’t Know about the Wineg lass. Phere is a small sigan on the Chilcotin Highway inthe streteh that used to be Knowa ats Eharice’s Timber. For 14 kilontetres aa twee rutted little road carries you past Baldy Mountain and then, switch: ysWwitchback, a thousand metres down to river level. As the car rustles downhill vou may encounter Blue Grouse that seem large as wild turkeys. At the ranch, you will find real wild turkeys, The deer tread lighay on these sidehills. The home plice appears of a sudden when you leave the trees and come out on the Gaeny bunech- grass sidehills again. A knot of buildings, walking paths, small gardens and, even in late autumn, the sweet smell of summer in the air. In all the Chileotin, where ranching began during the Cariboo Gold Rush of the 1860s, there are only two ranches that have gained the title of heritage ranches because they have remained within the same family for £00 years. One is the Chilahnko Ranch, neat Redstone. which is now in fourth generation ownership of the Bas tilt family, and the other is the Winegliss, operited by a third gen eration of the Durrell tamuly. Brian Durteli says, My grand Father was a stow starter in casing a family. Hle didi ters until be wats 100% Whe backed ain eve for aa ankle, grandfather did have anese far prime fand. Henrs Durrell was a French Thiguenot from the Ottiwa River Valles whe took up river bolton in PSU. Chileotin was then is Gi as distant as hard to reachias os Battin Istana today Through vattous Land petehases and swaps the Winegthiss contin ues. This now JS00 aeres of Crown Grant and (0.000 held under lease This is ane ob thige ranches int Tits region that hive not pone over to com-calbapeniions, with the anual all ceop years: to the Catpars sartds lar finishing. The Durtells winter ther an Maly and sell thenn at ES north, as dif all the ranches at venenitien ages (Agu whatate the ather raneties whichide sat Tbe Bais lie pices al contac. andl tle Moons tareh, Whroliis alaiest as ald aim opera trop. Seane people thive a knack ol resistin changed Crandfitter Teurs Tad awe sons, Donwld ind daek and a daughter tune, Phe tist sen went overseas ib Batiber Conmiiand and fitsted Hisee diss. “Oetober 20. PT sas Benen, the sane! Bich Darrell “Phe bain Iv ddl what it coukl te temenmber Cele Donald My older brother, Whoots a fagzer wins named Donald and nay sinter June named ber fist daughter Bona.” Jack Durrell, Durell the Secon. died afew sears age. bis widow Plorence fives tn the old family home wath her daughter banda. Brian, who could be calted Durrell the Third. dives with his wile Jane and three small children named Lei, Erin and Keely. They built anew log cabin just above the irrigation ditch. The temperatures in this lithe Eden are a full 10 degrees warmer than those on the plateau top 14 kifometres away, There are fruit trees here and the farmed land pro- duces corn and three alfalfa crops i year. Across the river are kigli holes left by the Indians. Phere are more kiglis upstream, near the mouth of Big Creek and also downsteean in Farwell Canyon. Indians are now claiming awn- ership of lands in Chilcotin, a x oO NS thought never be trom die cnaids obold white conching Ganilies Bri talks wath that dipeetine ss Whielb erty people sow Cand tnusu ab Among the first things be says are, Whats going to happen with Quebee?” Troe. be tits enough bere to keep himself oecupred, Hat he ts also, Ihe mans ranchers. well read, Also. he has spent tiie va Sunday, October 30th Friday, October 28, 1994 - North Shore News -: 7 Quebeo with the Lambs eta soung that wht cow boyed here fora summer Thes were charming. be sand, but thes carbed aehtp on the showilder, So what does a reflective man, Istag ana tittle bden of Crnada, see as our Future’ Quechee. he says, wilhalmost certainly teave Conmlederaton and ia 25 sears will as cerkimly jor up wilh us again, dha, Such i ithe long view fromthe ald Wineglass. Why Winegliss? Grandfather, it turns out, never said. However it Makes a good open brand that does t blur Ils practioal. 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