46 British Columbia Women’s Institutes

In January 1919 the Havelock Bryant family and David McElroy
left Cascade, B.C. to travel up to Clinton where the men were employed
in Epsom Salt hauling. When it ended they hauled ties for the P.G.E.
and farmed around Green Lake as did the Haywood Farmers and the
Boyds whose parents had operated the 70 Mile Stopping House in
earlier days.

When the McDonald’s moved into the Roe Lake—Bridge Lake district
early in the 1900's they had packed everything on pack horses over the
mountains from Mount Olie, even a mower and wagon. Renshaws, Kings,
Johnstons, Wheelers and a few others were already there when the mail
carrier Al ‘Trouth took C. F. Faessler and A. Barnes from Lone Butte to
Roe Lake Post Office and on to Bridge Lake P.O., on his weekly mail route,
their first time in 1925.

In the early part of this century there was a considerable influx of
settlers when the Grand Trunk Pacific was being built to Prince Rupert,
and the Pacific Great Eastern project was underway. ‘This part of the
country was advertised as “The Last Best West”.

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