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only means of transportation for some time. Pemberton, a_ thriving
farming community, reached now with ease by the Pacific Great Eastern,
was in 1858 approached in quite a different manner. Then the gold-
seekers coming over the Harrison-Lillooet trail by water to Port Douglas,
by heart-breaking portages to Lillooet Lake arrived at Port Pemberton
“the first town of importance” to find a settkement with gardens of very
fine vegetables for sale to the travellers at fantastic prices! Another trail
was early sought by Howe Sound and the “Skowhomish” River. Com-
mander Mayne in 1860 came through by Daisy Lake, the Cheakamus,
Green and Lillooet Rivers. ‘This provided a foot and pack-horse trail for
some of Pemberton’s early settlers.

Now a century later, over the trails the gold-seekers and early settlers
followed, compounded of the very elements which plagued them, the
_ white gold of power glides effortlessly over the transmission lines of the
B. C. Electric Power Co. to turn the wheels of industries old and new,
to lighten labor, to sparkle the cities and pin-prick every little farm
home with light.