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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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