Senior Living Magazine Vancouver Edition July 2011

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COLUMNS 4 The Family Caregiver by Barbara Small

18 Forever Young by William Thomas

23 Ask Goldie by Goldie Carlow

30 Have Fork, Will Travel by Sally Jennings

31 BBB Scam Alert by Lynda Pasacreta

32 Reflections: Then & Now by Gipp Forster

FEATURES 5 Travel: It’s Good for YouTravelling beyond the familiar provides a source of education that cannot be found elsewhere.

6 Good Times in the WildernessSailing in the Broughtons can feel isolating – until you reach the marina where other boaters soon become friends.

10 Soaking in AdventureHarrison Hot Springs offers adventure and relaxation close to home.

14 A Town Lost in TimeGet absorbed in the history of Port Townsend.

16 Golden Getaway in the CaribooSteeped in gold rush history, a trip to the Cariboo takes visitors back in time.

20 Canada’s Tiniest CityA trip through the Kootenays would not be complete without a stop in Greenwood.

26 On the Road AgainHeading east to cover 3,500km in five days.

28 Dream BigDespite challenges and against the odds, RVers Barb and Dave Reese follow their dreams.

Cover Photo: Sailors and adventurers Frank and Mary Ann Hajer aboard Zephyr. Story page 6. Photo: Philippe Martin-Morice

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British Columbia is a beautiful place to explore. The problem is most people can’t see it all in one lifetime. Expand your travel adventures to include some excursions across the US border, as some of our writers did – well, that’s justifica-tion for reincarnation right there!

Our Vancouver magazine begins with a sail through the coastal Brough-ton archipelago islands followed by a trek through Harrison Hot Spring’s trails and byways. We head north to Cariboo Country to ponder the gold rush days around Williams Lake, and east to ex-plore the splendour of Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies.

We head south to the quaint city of Greenwood near the BC border, and then cross it for a stroll through histori-cal Port Townsend in Washington state.

In our Vancouver Island magazine, we take a slightly different path. Visiting Cariboo Country again, this time, we ex-perience the diversity at a ranch retreat in the shadow of the Marble Mountains. We pop over the US border to an historic place called Fairhaven beside Belling-ham Bay before strapping on our leath-ers for a breezy motorbike trip across BC on an 1100cc Goldwing.

Then it’s over to Vancouver Island for a bike ride from the Swartz Bay ferries to Sooke and back to the Mainland for a daring tumble down the Thompson in a river raft through rapids with names like “Terminator” and “The Shocker.”

From horseback to rafts, from bi-cycles to RVs, from motorbikes to sail-boats… seniors really get around!

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recipient will benefit as well by spend-ing some time with a new person.

• Taking care of your own health as well – eat healthfully, get regular sleep and participate in stress relieving activi-ties. Visit the doctor for your own health concerns.

• Defining the boundaries of what you are prepared and able to do. You do not have to say yes to all requests. May-be there is someone else who is actually better qualified or equipped to carry out some of the responsibilities.

• Joining a caregiver’s support group and sharing with others who are going through similar situations.

• Keeping a good sense of humour and finding some laughter in the little situations that happen throughout your day.

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Compassion FatigueTHE FAMILY CAREGIVER

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BY BARBARA SMALL

Barbara Small is the Program De-velopment Coordinator for Family Caregivers’ Network Society located in Victoria, BC. www.familycaregiversnetwork.org

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Are you feeling too tired to care? Being a family caregiv-er can affect you physically,

mentally and emotionally, sometimes without you even realizing it. You may become irritable, depressed, have trou-ble sleeping or feel unable to cope.

Compassion fatigue occurs when family caregivers take on the pain and suffering of the person for whom they are caring. Caregivers experiencing compassion fatigue have a difficult time maintaining a healthy balance between concerns for their family member and staying objective. They continually push themselves harder, eventually be-coming completely burned out.

Some caregivers are caught up in the trap of trying to enable their family member or friend to continue as if noth-ing were different with his or her health or life – doing all they can to keep ev-erything as “normal” as possible. But it simply isn’t anymore.

Compassion fatigue can be detrimen-tal to both you and the person for whom you are caring. Feeling high levels of stress over long periods of time will af-fect your health, your attitude and your ability to cope with your daily responsi-bilities, both caregiving and otherwise.

Some of the causes of compassion fatigue are:

• Not asking for help and seldom taking a break• Having high expectations of yourself• Working hard to make everything ide-al for the person you are caring for• Difficulty saying “no”• Consistently putting other people’s needs ahead of your own• Feeling as though you are the only person capable of providing the care needed• Ignoring your own health concerns

Family caregivers can prevent or re-duce compassion fatigue by:

• Letting go and accepting help. One person cannot do everything by himself or herself. Recognize that someone else might not provide care exactly as you would, but many people can still pro-vide appropriate care as needed.

• Scheduling breaks and quiet time for you. This is essential and will allow you to be a more effective caregiver longer. You cannot take care of some-one else without replenishing your own inner resources as well.

• Making use of respite so you can take time away from caregiving. Re-spite care could be provided by a family member, friend, volunteer or health-care provider. Even an hour or two will help. Just ensure you use it regularly. The care

Travel: It’s Good For You!


and ongoing concerns, which allows the body to relax. Reduced stress can be linked with better blood pressure, increased concentration, reduction of headaches, and the improvement of di-gestive disorders.

Activity levels also increase during travel. Without familiar modes of transportation readily available, you’ll rely on the most primitive and convenient form of transportation: your feet. And being outdoors for long periods, you’ll also soak in healthy doses of vitamin D and vitality.

Travel is also an ambassa-dor to world peace. As the great author Mark Twain once said,

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” Every time you connect with people that live and work in different countries or cultures or even neighbourhoods, you make a connec-tion. Increased connections between people mean increased understanding. And when you increase understanding, the world becomes a smaller and more peaceful place. Making the world a bet-ter place is conducive to feeling good about yourself, which is, of course, good for your health.

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Saint Augustine once said, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read

only a page.” Seniors dedicated to a lifestyle of continued learning, personal health and general well-being are defi-nitely not content to stay on the same page. For those people, travel is essential.

At the risk of oversimplifica-tion, quality of life as a person ages is directly related to quality of health. Good health means sound mind and useful body. Maintaining good health means exercising and stretching mind and body, keeping them fit and working, plus feeding both the right materials and mak-ing the ground fertile for growth. Travel can provide all these things.

Travel is good for the brain – allow-ing it a chance to stretch and grow by constantly being challenged by the un-familiar. The brain is presented with new perspectives, thereby creating new connections. You meet people and form relationships based on an unfamiliar foundation. You develop new skills by challenging yourself with new activities. You expand your sensory experience by trying new foods, listening to new mu-sic, and seeing varied landscapes. All of these stretch and enhance the brain.

A lifestyle that incorporates con-stant learning is also important to good health. Travelling beyond the famil-iar and into the greater world provides a source of education that cannot be found elsewhere. Firsthand knowledge

is gained in economics, politics, history, geography and sociology.

Travel allows you to truly live in the moment. When the packing and planning is done and you hit the road to discovery, leaving the familiar in the rear-view mirror, you truly are in the zone. New stimuli force you to use your brain in new and unfamiliar ways so that you truly are living in the here and now, which is good for your sense of well-being.

Living in the moment is great for the body as well. Focus on the here and now releases the stresses of daily life

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New stimuli force you to use your brain in new and unfamiliar ways so that you truly are living in the here and now, which is good for

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The Broughton archipelago lies between northern Vancou-ver Island and the mainland of British Columbia. These fog-shrouded islands are covered by dense coastal rain-

forest and separated from each other by a labyrinth of twisting and sometimes treacherous waterways.

The area is beautiful, but lonely. Encroaching vegetation has all but obliterated the remains of the native villages and busy logging and fishing settlements that once dotted the region. They have van-ished with the salmon and the viability of the independent logger.

For a few short months each summer, however, the population of the Broughtons soars with the influx of recreational boaters, who are drawn by the area’s pristine natural beauty. They drop their hooks in isolated coves and revel in a silence broken only by the hoarse cries of ravens or the chuckling of eagles. In the most remote sections, they are more likely to see a grizzly than another person. When we spent a month there in the summer of 2009, on board our sailboat, the Zephyr, we sometimes went days without human contact.

But man is a social animal, and eventually we would feel the need

for interaction with our own kind. That is when we would up anchor and head to one of the half dozen marinas operating in the Brought-ons; small centres of civilization in this untamed world.

It was cold and blustery the day we pulled up to the dock at Kwat-si Bay Marina where owner Max Knierim waited to grab our lines. According to their website, he and his wife, Anca, along with their two children, Marieke and Russell, have lived in the bay year-round since 1995. They built their house, the dock and all facilities them-selves.

“We’re having a potluck supper tonight on the dock,” Max told us. “Are you interested?”

“Yes, of course,” was our prompt response. “We’ll bring des-sert.”

On our first visit to the Broughtons in 2007, we had been startled to discover that on most evenings these isolated marinas are the set-tings for lively social gatherings, as boaters bearing drinks and trays of appetizers gather to greet old friends and make new ones, update each other on the regional news and share cruising stories.

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Sometimes happy hour turns into a full-fledged potluck dinner. Usually several of the dishes on offer will be freshly caught seafood such as crab and/or prawns, both plentiful in the area. That evening, Max pre-sented us with so much freshly cooked crab that in the end we literally could not eat an-other bite – all compliments of the house. I can’t begin to imagine what that meal would have cost us in Vancouver. My contribution to the fare was a chocolate cake I made from my own mix. As the only dessert, it vanished without a trace.

At Lagoon Cove Marina on East Crac-roft Island, owners Bill and Jean Barber are famous for the bucket of prawns they donate to happy hour – every day! Boaters also come to hear Bill’s famous bear stories, told with the flawless delivery of a profes-sional stand-up comedian.

Cruisers in the know gather at Pierre’s at Echo Bay on Gilford Island for Canada Day celebrations and for their famous Sat-urday night pig roasts, served at a nomi-nal price. A look at their website reveals that Pierre is planning numerous other culinary events in 2011, including a full-course Christmas dinner in July.

Sullivan Bay Marine Resort hosts a ma-jor celebration on July 4th for the benefit of the many visiting American boaters. And every day the Browns at Shawl Bay Marina serve up a pancake breakfast with lots of hot coffee, much appreciated in the damp, chilly mornings that are the norm in this area.

But the meal that stands out in our minds as the most delicious is the Cajun dinner served up by Allyson Allo at Jennis Bay Marina in Drury Inlet. It was purely seren-dipitous that our visit coincided with Cajun Tuesday, the one night a week that Allyson cooks up a huge pot of gumbo, crammed full of freshly caught prawns and crab, and another of chicken and sausage jambalaya, all topped off with slices of homemade mud pie. Heaven!

However, Broughton marinas offer more than a place to party. They are also a wel-come refuge for boaters in trouble, provid-ing a link to the outside world.

For example, our visit to Kwatsi Bay, originally meant to be an overnighter, end-ed up lasting close to a week when our en-gine refused to start in the morning. Using

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Zephyr at Kwatsi Bay.

Mary Anne and Frank map their course onboard Zephyr.

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Max’s satellite phone, Frank was able to contact Klassen Diesel in Delta, who di-agnosed the problem as a disintegrating drive plate. They soon had another plate on a bus heading for Port McNeill on Van-couver Island, where it was transferred the next day to a float plane for delivery to Echo Bay. Max collected the plate when he made his mail run in his small open boat, and Frank was able to successfully install it so we could continue our holiday. What would we have done without Max’s help? I truly don’t know.

It’s easy to imagine the difficulties in-volved in running a marina in an area as remote and inaccessible as the Broughtons – the never-ending maintenance, the diffi-culties in bringing in supplies, the lack of available help. Yet, the average age of the owners is well past 50.

Frank and I are looking forward to vis-iting the Port Harvey Marine Resort on our next trip. George and Gail Campbell, two self-described retired empty-nesters, opened this marina in 2010, and the blog on their website gives some idea of how hard these retirees are working. I wonder if their “real” jobs were as challenging.

At an average speed of five nautical miles an hour, it takes the Zephyr over a week to reach the Broughtons, so it’s not a trip we make every year. But we will go again soon. I can’t wait to tuck into an-other of Allyson’s Cajun dinners!

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Activities include zip-lining and boogie boarding (above).

During the mid-1800s, 61-ki-lometre-long Harrison Lake was part of the main route

to the Cariboo goldfields. Falling from a canoe, a prospector expecting frigid waters discovered a future hotspot instead: Harrison Hot Springs! Early visitors arrived by boats, trains and wagons; nowadays, most drive. For us, it’s less than two hours from our home near Vancouver. Over decades of soak-ing up good times, we’ve discovered Harrison makes a perfect base for out-door recreation.

Our spring fling includes a boat cruise around Harrison Lake’s southern section. Departing, we consider nearly century old Harrison Hot Springs Ho-tel standing amid the modern wings of the famed spa resort. This historic brick hotel replaced an even earlier St. Alice Hotel and Bath House built in 1886.

Soon, onboard interpreter Lorna tells us about another attraction: fishing for salmon, trout and sturgeon. The lake sparkles in beautiful turquoise, fed by glaciers seen on north coastal moun-tains. Isolated cabins dot remote shore-lines, prompting speculation on these residents’ simple lives. Pausing below Echo Island’s steep cliffs, Lorna tests the horn; sure enough, reverberations boom! She later shows us clamshells embedded in rocks gathered at Fossil Bay. At the end of a narrow inlet, we gaze at surrounding snowy peaks and .6-kilometre high Rainbow Falls.

We regularly amble the village’s flow-er-bordered walkways. A promenade stretches along Harrison’s sandy shore-line and at its midpoint, links a raised trail looping the man-made lagoon. For years, we admired the artistic creations built on these golden beaches during September’s sand sculpture champion-

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The authors hiking above Hicks Lake.

A restful moment on the shores of Hicks Lake.


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ships. The promenade itself continues eastward through a park to Ranger Sta-tion art gallery above the public docks, providing avid walkers with yet another terrific lakeside panorama.

To the west, the promenade passes in front of the resort to the mouth of the Miami River. Two public trails continue onward. One, Sandy Cove trail passes the hot spring’s steamy source to a small beach and ultimately Whippoorwill Point overlooking the Harrison River. Seals are commonly seen here. Behind the resort, Bridges Trail parallels the Miami River and spans nine wooden bridges traversing a craggy fern-filled mountainside be-fore descending into the village.

Other trails fan out throughout vil-lage neighbourhoods. Melodious bird-ies serenade our walks. Purple finch, plump robins, white-crowned sparrows, yellow-headed and red-winged black-birds chirp from newly leafed branches. Honking geese fly overhead and strut on verdant yards. Pileated woodpeck-ers hammer in the distance. Flamboyant wood ducks and mallards quack hap-pily in the river.

From McCombs Drive, several trails lead into an adjacent forest with most following the meandering Miami River. An anonymous artisan transformed one path into magical Mask Trail where earthen ceramic faces emerge from elegant red cedars. Winding into this wondrous woodsy world, we arrive at a gallery-like grove presenting a dozen such mystic spirits.

Sasquatch sightings occurred during the area’s early history. So two replicas of these legendary hairy giants aptly adorn Harrison’s main road; a Sas-quatch silhouette tops a signpost outside the public hot springs pool. Just beyond town, Sasquatch Provincial Park seems an ideal spot to meet Mr. Sasquatch and commune with other woodsy denizens!

Our trail encircling Hicks Lake be-gins as an old logging road rising above the eastern shore. Heeding Dr. Suzuki’s encouragement, we take our brains for a walk among evergreens, breathe in

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pure air and revel in natural splendour. Remarkably, the forest pushes upward through a rock solid base. Thick, pea-green moss softly blankets fallen logs, branches and sedate stumps.

At the lake’s northern end, we de-scend to the sandy shoreline and recline against a log to admire the lake’s glassy reflections. An eagle soars above us while stellar jays hop amidst branches of lacy hemlocks. A narrow trail leads

us southward, weaving along rugged slate cliffs just above the waterline. Thick board bridges carry us across countless burbling streams. Under an evergreen canopy, we delight in more birdsongs, wildflowers and solace. Af-ter two pleasant hours, our meditative adventure ends.

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comfortable padded seat. Rick’s touring bike boasts panniers for snacks, repair kit and extra clothing. His handlebar pack carries our road map and camera.

Donning gloves and helmets, we pedal on Hot Springs Road, its ample shoulder separating us from streams of motorists. Near the welcoming entrance into Harrison, long-horned, woolly highland cattle gather in a field under huge cottonwoods. The end of the lush golf course signals our turnoff onto Golf Road. Now on quiet country roads, we pass blossoming cherry trees, yellow daffodils and red tulips lining fences. Thousands of tiny white daisies will later carpet surrounding meadows; late summer brings rippling crops of corn.

Spinning along pastoral back roads named for pioneers, we pass vintage farmhouses, weathered barns and pastures with black and white dairy cows. Observing a cyclist maxim “drink before you’re thirsty,” we regularly sip water. Two other cycling dictums decree “rest before you’re tired!” and “eat before you’re hungry!” So, arriving in Agassiz, we take a break, snacking at a Pioneer Park picnic table.

Bordered by railway lines, the nearby museum highlights a long relationship with Canadian Pacific Railroad that led to Agassiz’s early prosperity. The 1949 steel caboose reveals the work and life aboard a train. Inside the museum, we discover that for 60 years, a basic beer ingredient, hops, was a main export. Baskets, artwork and photographs chronicle local na-tive lives. Recognizing the waters’ healing properties for cen-turies, native bands travelled to bathe off Harrison’s southern lakeshore. We also read about Port Douglas located at the northern end of Harrison Lake, a small In-shuck-ch village - and for a few days long ago, British Columbia’s capital!

After perusing town murals depicting local history and in-herent beauty, we turn down Agassiz Drive to see the original 1868 Agassiz family farmhouse. It once housed the town’s first post office, church and general store. Now a large dairy farm, Holstein yearlings graze in meadows out front. In an-other pasture, sleek mares supervise leggy babies, flick their silky tails and munch, perfectly portraying the patience of motherhood.

Cycling back in to Harrison Hot Springs.


We roll onward past young maples lining the way to Mountain View Road. Snow-capped Mt. Cheam dominates sweeping panoramas. Nearby Hopyard Mountain was named for former large plantations, which in 1892 employed over 100 hop-pickers. One such picker was reputedly a Sasquatch who walked daily to work from a remote forest home.

Random signs proclaim Rainbow Country. Besides the resplendent skyward variety, floral “rainbows” continually dazzle. Vibrant rhododendrons, pink blossoming apple trees and myriads of wildflowers line spring roadways; from June, wild roses, dogwood, snowball trees, lupins, irises and magnolias bloom.

After retracing our route, we avoid Hot Springs Road traf-fic riding between pretty subdivisions and evergreen forest on McPherson and McCombs. Bridging the Miami River, we’re soon amid village restaurants, modern condos, new hotels, galleries and boutiques. Pedalling our trusty bikes these 14 peaceful kilometres generates some needed exercise, rejuve-nates our outlooks and even produces a sense of triumph.

Harrison Hot Springs offers us awesome adventures and “ahhh-some” relaxation close to home! Our robust activities always instil new perspectives, insights and inspiration. And naturally, each feat is rewarded with tasty village cuisine and celebrated with those notable soothing soaks! SL

IF YOU GO:• Tourism Harrison: www.tourismharrison.com for maps and activity details• Harrison Hot Springs Resort & Spa: www.harrisonresort.com • Crazy Fish Bistro: 310 Hot Springs Ave., Harrison Hot Springs B.C. (604-796-2280) for seafood• Shoreline Tours & Charters: www.shorelinetours.net for sightseeing and fishing expeditions

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Port Townsend is a town caught in a time warp. As I drive off the ferry from

Whidbey Island, I feel as though I’m taking a giant step back into the past. With the sea surrounding it and views of the Olympic Mountains and Mount Baker, it seems like it is on the edge of the wilderness.

Orcas and grey whales frolic and splash in the water. The nearby Olympic National Park, the area’s crown jewel, has 1,400 square miles (2253 square kilometres) of mountains, rainforests, river val-leys and untamed coast.

On the shore, beached seal pups bask in the sun aside flocks of seabirds. There’s easy access to the beaches known for their abun-dance of shellfish. Puget Sound is a sailing, kayaking and fishing area. Three state parks in the area are popular with campers and hik-ers. Like a rare pearl found in a Chuckanut oyster, Port Townsend is truly a small treasure.

At the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula on Puget Sound, the town’s historic roots date back to 1792 when Captain George Van-couver came ashore at Point Hud-son beach on First Nations land. He named the bay Port Townshend for his friend, the Marquis of Townsh-end. A hundred years later, the first pioneers arrived and settled on the narrow sea level spit.

Soon, captains from around the world sailed their ships into the port. Later, aspiring busi-nessmen arrived and invested in Port Townsend. It became a bus-tling town where Victorian ladies shopped in the uptown district and avoided the bawdy waterfront

where, in the rowdy pubs, drunken men were often shanghaied out of secret back doors to ships that waited in the harbour.

Today, Port Townsend is still like the Victorian era seaport it used to be with well preserved and restored heritage buildings, elegant Victorian and Greek revival-style mansions that now serve as B&Bs and quaint hotels (one of them is haunted!). Even the antique Rose Theatre, built originally as a vaude-ville theatre in 1907, still operates as a movie theatre.

Once known as “The City of Dreams,” Port Townsend was to be an extension of the Northern Pacific Railroad and the larg-est harbour on the west coast of America. The gold rush of the late 1800s brought an influx of men seeking their fortune, and Port Townsend was a stopover on their way to Alaska. Port Townsend grew from a modest fishing town into a burgeoning small city with aspirations for the future.

Unfortunately, the railway failed to connect to the city, and by the late 1890s, the boom was over. The city of Seattle stole its thun-der and gradually the hopes of Port Townsend dwindled away.

The beautiful mansions began to fall into disrepair as the resi-dents moved on to greener pas-tures. But because of the speed at which the economy fell during that time, none of the buildings were torn down and the city remained as if preserved in a time capsule for the next 100 years.

During the ’60s, the town re-vived somewhat when an influx of hippies moved in and took over

A Town Lost in TimeSTORY AND PHOTOS

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The author en route to Port Townsend.

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mayor. Locals referred to it as the “Eisenbeis Castle.” Years later, the Castle became a vacation place for nuns and even-tually was purchased by the Jesuits and used as a training college. They named it “Manresa Hall” after the town in Spain where the founder of the Jesuit order was born. It is now called “Manresa Castle.”

After my tour, I spend a pleasant afternoon wandering the grounds of the Fort Worden State Park. From 1902-53, the area was an active military base and in 1981, was the setting for the film An Officer and a Gentleman. These days it has become renown as the site of music festivals, concerts and workshops. Port Townsend is famous for the jazz workshops held here every summer.

Even if you only have a day to spend in this fascinating town, you’ll appreciate the step back in time and, like me, you won’t be sorry you stopped.

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abandoned buildings. That changed in the ’70s when enter-prising people saw Port Townsend’s potential. Today, the population is 8,900 and it’s one of the most sophisticated small cities west of Seattle because of the many art galler-ies, quaint cafés, beautifully restored architecture, theatres and museums.

It’s easy to become absorbed in the history of the town. I set out on a walking tour of all the historic sites starting downtown at Water and Tyler Street, and following the route of the walking tour map available at the Port Townsend tour-ism office. The atmosphere of the past lingers here. There are 54 heritage buildings listed on the walk. Most of the historic homes are not open to the public.

British sailor, William Bishop, built the Bishop Victorian Hotel, once called the Bishop Block, in 1871. The Mount Baker Block (1890) was built as an office building during the railroad days. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (1865) is one of the oldest standing structures in town. The impressive Ro-manesque Jefferson County Courthouse (1892) is one of the oldest government buildings in the state, featuring a 124-foot (38-metre) clock tower.

Looming over the city is the most impressive building of all, the Castle. Though it’s now a trendy restaurant and hotel, this magnificent structure with its turrets and lush gardens, was built as a residence in 1892 by a Prussian businessman, Charles Eisenbeis, who was the town’s first

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A friend and I watch five grebes paddle by on a warm day in early summer. Some distance away, a pair of loons swims in the clear water. We’re visiting

Scout Island, the nature sanctuary near the town of Williams Lake, a favourite haunt for many bird species, including hum-mingbirds, wood ducks, ospreys, yellow-headed blackbirds, flycatchers, woodpeckers, yellow warblers and blue herons. Within walking distance of the town centre, Scout Island is criss-crossed by trails and includes a beach, nature house, pic-nic ground and boat launch.

During our week’s vacation in Williams Lake, we estab-lish “base camp” in a motel on the lakeshore and plan to ex-plore B.C.’s Cariboo Country. Dubbed “the Hub City of the Cariboo,” Williams Lake is approximately a seven-hour drive from Vancouver. Its central location makes it an excellent headquarters for one- or two-day excursions to various sur-rounding communities and points of interest.

Situated amid large cattle ranches, Williams Lake (popula-tion 11,000) has long been famous for its stampede, held each year over the Canada Day weekend. But the town caters to many other interests as well. We enjoyed the display of paint-ings and crafts by local artists at The Station House Museum. The Cowboy Hall of Fame, located in the Museum of the Cariboo Chilcotin, gave us a sense of the rough-and-tumble early days in the region, where ranching has been an impor-tant mainstay of the economy since the 1860s.

Recently, mountain biking has emerged as a hugely pop-ular activity, with three different areas dedicated to the sport and trails designed for every skill level. More trails are in the works.

On Fridays from May to October, vendors at the week-ly farmers’ market in Boitanio Park sell local produce and

organic chicken and beef from nearby ranches, as well as all kinds of crafts, from knitting and crocheting to pottery and jewelry.

The Cariboo region is located on B.C.’s central plateau, and stretches from Lillooet and Cache Creek in the south, east to the Cariboo Mountains, west to the Fraser River and north to Quesnel. The region was named after a species of woodland caribou that once roamed the hills and valleys. Long inhabited by First Nations people, the Cariboo hit the world’s headlines in 1862, when Billy Barker struck gold in Williams Creek, near Barkerville.

Barkerville, once a ramshackle ghost town, is now a National Historic Site. A few hours drive from Williams Lake, it makes a wonderful destination. Locals dressed as old-time teachers, blacksmiths and miners showed us how their work was done back in the day. A stagecoach takes us for a tour of the town, and we even try to pan for gold – sadly, without hitting “pay dirt.”

Back in the 1860s, the stagecoach and wagon road to the Cariboo goldfields began at Mile 0 in Lillooet and ended near Barkerville. Roadhouses were established every few miles, where horses – and passengers – could rest and refuel. Travelling the highway from the Lower Mainland and through the Fraser Canyon, then north on Highway 97 from Cache Creek, we notice many of these old “mile houses.” Some, like 70 Mile House, are now not much more than wide places in the road, while others, like 100 Mile House, have grown into thriving communities.

From Williams Lake, we make day trips to a few of the re-gion’s historic gold-rush settlements. About an hour south of town, at 150 Mile House, the original one-room schoolhouse has been refurbished inside and out. Dating back to the 1890s and painted barn red, the Little Red Schoolhouse is a reminder of the days when the settlement at “the 150” was bigger and more important than that at Williams Lake.

Further south, and worth a stop, is the historic 108 Mile Ranch, restored to resemble a working ranch of the early 1900s. In the old farmhouse, the kitchen table is set for dinner; upstairs, the bedrooms are ready for weary family members. Stables and bunkhouses for ranch hands and cowboys look just as they did 100 years ago.

We also take a 90-minute drive to Likely (pop. 350), at the west end of Quesnel Lake, to see the display of early mining equipment at Cedar Point Provincial Park. From there, it’s not far to Horsefly (pop. 1,000) on a good gravel road that winds through sub-alpine meadows and past thundering waterfalls, all surrounded by snow covered mountain ridges. In 1859, pros-pectors struck gold in this tiny community, three years before the big strike in Barkerville. We follow a short trail to view the falls on the spectacular Horsefly River.

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The community of Wells, built some 80 years ago as a company town for the Cariboo Gold Quartz Mine, boasts some beautifully restored heritage structures. These include one of the most photographed buildings in B.C., the only wood-framed flat-iron building in the province. The town’s population of 300 year-round residents includes many artists, and the Island Mountain Arts Society’s school offers summer classes in a range of subjects.

Not far from Wells is Cornish Mountain’s network of his-toric walking, mountain biking and cross-country ski trails.

Another highly recommended day trip takes us to Farwell Canyon and Junction Sheep Range Park. We follow Highway 20, west from Williams Lake and across the Fraser River, and through the rolling ranch lands of the Chilcotin. Farwell Can-yon’s weird rock formations, or hoodoos, were created by wind and rain, and the canyon’s steep walls, dotted with sagebrush, plunge down to the blue Chilcotin River below.

Junction Sheep Range Park, named for the confluence of the Fraser and Chilcotin Rivers, is a lush riverside picnic area. Camping is also available.

A third not-to-be-missed tour takes us from Likely to Barker-ville on the old Matthew River Road.

The 2011 Guide to Williams Lake and Area, available at the Tourist Information Centre just east of Williams Lake, outlines several day trips. Plan to spend a full day driving south of town to Alkali Lake, Dog Creek and the Gang Ranch. Together with fan-tastic scenery, you will pass the Gang Ranch, B.C.’s oldest ranch, once owned by the heir to the Woodward’s Department Store for-tune. Further south, check out the protected area at Churn Creek, one of very few places where the original bunch grass that once covered much the Fraser River’s banks can still be found.

Four more circle tours, starting in Victoria or Vancouver, are outlined in the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast’s 2011 guidebook, available at any tourist information centre in B.C.

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What’s Her NameBY WILLIAM THOMAS

So, I’m on a book tour with Marga-ret Trudeau, driving in a separate car heading for Jordan, Ontario

when I spot this dog.Still feisty and beautiful as well as a dog

lover, Margaret wrote a wonderful memoir titled Changing My Mind. After unknow-ingly spending 50 years of her life suffering from a mental illness, the younger half of our Camelot couple, Maggie and Pierre, uses the book to explain her failures and fess up to the scandals of the heady, hippy days of the ’70s.

With photos that transport you to a better and simpler time in Canada, Changing My Mind is a remorseful and brutally honest bipolar romp from sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll to today’s caring grandmoth-er who once again gets to say: “I love you, Pierre.”

I introduced Margaret at three Niagara readings and when I used the word “tell-all” to describe her biography, she scolded me when she got to the stage.

“It is not a ‘tell-all,’ I kept some personal things to myself.”

And I thought, good God woman, you have more secrets than what’s in this book? It’s like I’ve been living in an ashram in Carnduff, Saskatchewan all my life!

Oh yeah, the dog. She was a bigheaded Burnese Mountain dog on the run along a busy two-lane highway near Vineland. I blocked her path to the road with my car, scared her down a dirt road with my horn,

and then set off after her on foot. Two soakers later and with mud on my knees, I finally got a hand on her collar.

Into the front seat she went, almost willingly, this beautiful black, white, and orange creature with big brown eyes. She stunk to high heaven of barn and farm; her

ribs showed through a thin, dank coat; she had been neglected, maybe abandoned and likely abused.

I took her home. And within an hour, by somehow springing the latch of a door even I have trouble opening, Mar-garet, the dog not the author, was on tour once more.

My buddy John Grant and I drove the surroundings of Sunset Bay in a grid pattern and found neither the dog nor anyone who’d seen her.

The next day, I called local Humane Societies to see if she’d been picked up, but nothing. After three days, I was sure I cost her her life because she’d have to cross the highway and other danger-ous thoroughfares to get back to where I

found her. So, I began calling the city works depart-

ment who pick up dead dogs. On the fourth day, after the coldest night in November, Margaret was found at Fay Farms, maybe four miles from my house.

I visited her at the dog pound – “roasted bones for everybody” – and she was quite depressed.

From there, she was transferred to the Humane Society, where I walked her every couple of days and by now, her name was “Berner.” Under-staffed and overworked, the Humane Society not only took exceptional care of this dog, they arranged and paid for the surgery that removed two tumours in her mouth.

After a short stint with Lynn Whit-ley, who owns Lynn’s Pet Shop and has Ber-nese dogs, “Heather” – by now this dog had more names than the Great Imposter – was sent to the homestead of Nancy Misener and Kevin Rowlings to recover from her surgery and busy schedule.

Barb Gowan of the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of Ontario, who fortunately did not rename her, facilitated a lot of this.

It was December 23rd by the time Nancy began fostering Margaret Berner Heather in her home, feeding her spoonfuls of soup. The dog was thin and woozy with no winter coat, shy and tentative but still with a sweet-ness that was irresistible. She began eating regular meals and found a warm spot in the kitchen she fancied. That’s where her sleep-ing bag went. She was not house trained but

By my calculations, it only took this handsome and homeless waif 37 days to get from the front seat of my car to the foot of their bed

– and into everyone’s heart.


learned, in short order, about the great fenced-in outdoors.It was Christmas so – and I hope you’re sitting down for this

one – the name “Ivy” seemed appropriate.As Ivy got healthy and strong and showed more affection, she

befriended Nancy’s other two dogs, Django and Jorja. In keeping with my theory, but never actually having heard of it – “A true pet lover is one sick puppy” – Nancy and Kevin are no longer Ivy’s foster parents. Ivy is now officially a key component of what they call their “family pack.” She sleeps on the bedroom floor.

By my calculations, it only took this handsome and homeless waif 37 days to get from the front seat of my car to the foot of their bed – and into everyone’s heart.

Nancy Misener wrote a report for the Humane Society’s newsletter about the trials and tribulations of Ivy, in which I am referred to as “the concerned citizen.” Not something I can put on my resume, but I’ll take it.

I’m thinking of writing Ivy’s memoir for her along the lines of Margaret Trudeau’s Changing My Mind. Title? What else but Changing My Name by Margaret Berner Heather Ivy Misener.

P.S. “The concerned citizen” now has visitation rights – Sun-days at Silver Bay – with “what’s her name.”

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I approach Greenwood on a glorious fall afternoon, near the end of a road trip through British Columbia’s spectacular southern Kootenay region. Mountain goats meander along

the highway, and bald eagles float above churning rivers and placid lakes; stunning green forests with splashes of crimson and gold billow in every direction.

As I enter Greenwood, it’s apparent that the Kootenays of-fer more than astonishing natural attractions. Lovingly restored colonial-style buildings line the streets; I’ve driven into a time tunnel and emerged in Canada’s version of Brigadoon. On the outskirts of town, I pull an abrupt U-turn. If any place warrants an unscheduled stopover, this is it.

Determined to unravel this yarn, I pay a visit to the Green-wood Museum. The museum’s first-rate collection of artifacts, historical photographs, and archives tell the saga of a community that is itself a living museum. The tale begins in the 1890s, when prospectors discovered rich lodes of nearby copper-gold ore.

In 1895, Robert Wood bought the land where I now stand and used his own money to build roads that connected nearby mining camps to the new settlement, which he named Greenwood. Al-most overnight, the former wilderness area became the nucleus of one of the world’s largest copper-producing regions.

Greenwood was incorporated as a city in 1897, and within two years, the population rose to 3,000 people. Grainy museum photos convey the swagger of a brash new hub that boasted 20 hotels, abundant bars, a newspaper, and even an opera house. In 1901, the British Columbia Copper Company built a smelter with a 121-foot (37-metre) brick smokestack to process copper-gold ore from their Motherlode Mine. That smokestack is all that remains. A Vancouver Province newspaper article on display from that period describes the smelter as “one of the most com-plete and modern in the world today,” an assertion confirmed by

an impressive scale model and panoramic photo.The smelter prospered for a decade, until copper prices

plummeted and caused it to operate only sporadically. In 1918, the plant shut down for good. Its lifeblood gone, the once booming city shrank to only 200 inhabitants. Despite the population implosion, Greenwood maintained its city coun-cil, and thereby its city status.

Ironically, one of Canadian history’s darkest chapters helped to spearhead Greenwood’s renaissance. When the fed-eral government forcibly relocated 22,000 Japanese-Canadi-ans from the Pacific coast in 1942, Greenwood mayor W.E. McArthur requested that 1,200 of them be interned there to help resuscitate the local economy.

Museum documents and photos detail the injustices inflicted on the internees, many of who were born in Canada. I’m moved by a display that recreates how entire families were made to live in single, cramped, unheated rooms within previously abandoned buildings. They prepared their meals in communal kitchens and used segregated communal baths. In spite of their hardships, the transplanted Japanese-Canadians seldom complained.

Locals were initially resentful of the internees, but the hard-working new residents were instrumental in saving Greenwood from the ghost town status that befell most other mining settle-ments in the area. Gradually, the long-time inhabitants came to accept their new neighbours. When the war ended in 1945, many city councils supported the deportation of Japanese-Canadians, but Greenwood’s council drafted a letter to the federal govern-ment asking that the Japanese be allowed to remain. That letter is prominently on display in the museum today. According to a volunteer, about half of the internees did stay on. Many still reside in the area today, as do their descendants.

In 1997, Greenwood residents were unexpectedly reminded

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Canada’s Tiniest City Tells a Big Story of the Japanese incarceration when Uni-versal Studios chose the city as a film location for the movie Snow Falling on Cedars, starring Ethan Hawke. The plot centres on the Japanese internment in the United States, so Greenwood was transformed into a fictional fishing vil-lage in Washington’s San Juan Islands.

The production company hired lo-cals to give Greenwood’s heritage buildings a much-needed facelift. Many of the local Japanese-Canadians, some who were actually interned during the war, appear as extras in the film. Pho-tographs of locally filmed scenes in the museum convey the excitement gener-ated by the Hollywood production, but I can’t help but wonder about emotions that must have re-surfaced.

It’s now late afternoon, and I decide to leave the museum and check out some of those intriguing historical buildings that caused me to alter my travel plans. I don’t have to walk far. According to a guidebook I picked up in the museum,

there are 31 heritage buildings within strolling distance.

Just down the road on Copper Street is the landmark Hotel Block. Decora-tive cornices and a striking blue and purple paint job make this the most ornate of Greenwood’s colonial struc-tures. Three different Windsor Hotels have occupied this site; the first two burned down before 1899.

The current building was renamed the Greenwood Inn Hotel. The upper floors served as Ethan Hawke’s apart-ment in Snow Falling on Cedars. Since the Motherlode mine is gone, I console myself with a tasty Motherlode burger in the hotel’s atmospheric pub, which my server informs me is one of the oldest in British Columbia.

The beige-coloured Pacific Hotel, lo-cated next door, is more subdued than its majestic neighbour. It’s hard to believe that this modest, three-story structure once housed over 200 Japanese-Cana-dian internees. This served as the Harbor Ph

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By now, it’s nearly dark. Laid bare by the last rays of the afternoon sun, this peaceful city and its surrounding green-gold forest now resemble an impressionist painting. Many more intriguing colonial buildings beg for scrutiny but they will have to wait until my next visit. In a few hours, I’ve ac-quired a deep respect for Greenwood. Over the course of its history, Canada’s smallest city has assumed many guises: booming mining centre, near ghost town, internment centre, Hollywood set and through it all, a survivor. SL

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IF YOU GOGreenwood is located on Highway 3 in the Kootenay bound-

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There are three reasonably priced motels within the Green-wood city limits. The dazzling old architecture of Greenwood is a must, but the stunning natural beauty of the surrounding Mona-shee Mountain range offers a wide range of activities to entertain the most jaded outdoor enthusiast.

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Hotel in the movie. Today, it houses the upscale-looking Pacific Grill restaurant.

The Victorian Guess Block dates back to 1899. Originally an assay office, this was the Greenwood Grocery for over 30 years. This distinguished, brick red building has since undergone ex-tensive renovations and is now home to Copper Eagle Cappuc-cino & Bakery, which is buzzing with locals today. It can be seen in the film as the Island Café. The aroma of coffee and freshly baked pastries entices me inside.

Just down the road, the Gulley Block & McArthur Centre, built in 1902, has a diverse history. It started out as a dry goods shop, a furniture store, and a mortician’s office. The elegant brick building then stood empty for years until it was used to house Japanese-Canadians during the internment. After the war, the Gulley Block was renamed after long-time mayor W.E. McAr-thur. Today, it contains the Greenwood Community Association, the public library, the local branch of the Royal Canadian Le-gion, and the Kettle River Arts Club. If that’s not enough, it also served as the Amity Harbor Library in Snow Falling on Cedars.

One block over from Copper Street, I come upon Greenwood City Hall. For 50 years this graceful, wood-frame edifice was home to the Gold Commissioner’s Office, the chief constable, and the mining recorder. The top floor was the Supreme Court for the county of Yale. The courtroom’s seven-metre ceilings are constructed from lustrous red cedar. In 1953, the City of Green-wood purchased the building for use as the city hall. Once com-


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SURREYARBOURSIDE COURTCHAPTERS - STRAWBERRY HILLCHOICES MARKETCLOVERDALE LIBRARYCLOVERDALE RECREATION CENTRECROSSROADS MOBILITY SOLUTIONSDON CHRISTIAN REC CENTREELIM VILLAGEFLEETWOOD COMMUNITY CNTRFLEETWOOD LIBRARYGUILDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARYGUILDFORD SENIORS SERVICES LOUNGEGUILDFORD SENIORS VILLAGEIMPERIAL PLACEKENT SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTREKIDNEY CARE CENTREKINSMEN PLACE LODGEKIWANIS PARK PLACELIFEMARK PHYSIOTHERAPYMEDICHAIRNEWTON LIBRARYNEWTON SENIOR CENTRENEWTON WAVE POOLNORTH SURREY REC CENTREOCEAN PARK LIBRARYPACIFICA RESORT RETIREMENT LIVINGPEACE ARCH MEMORIAL HOSPITALPERSONAL MOBILITY ROSEMARY HEIGHTS SENIORS VILLAGESEMIAHMOO PUBLIC LIBRARYSHOPPERS DRUG MARTSHOPPERS HOME HEALTHSOUTH SURREY ARENA

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WHITE ROCKPACIFIC CARLTONPERSONAL MOBILITYSAFE BATHING CENTRESAVE ON SCOOTERSSENIOR SUPPORT SERVICES SUNNYSIDE MANORPENINSULA RESORT RETIREMENT LIVINGWHITE ROCK COMM CNTRWHITE ROCK LIBRARY

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It’s June, the bees are buzzing, flowers are bloom-ing and we’re making good time as we speed along the empty road free for now from the usual glut of

campers. Entering the Fraser Valley, we view Vancouver’s leftover pollution, which hangs in the air like a glaucous curtain. Construction is everywhere and houses instead of fields now line the freeway.

We’re soon climbing the hills of the Coquihalla Highway peering over the tops of coastal cedars on one side of the van and sheared rock on the other. As we near the Interior, once vibrant pine trees stand beetle infected red and dying; nature’s enemies come in small packages. Passing through Barrier, we’re met with fire-blackened poles that were once a living forest. The town was razed in one of B.C.’s worst fires but the residents with true pioneering spirit stayed on and have since rebuilt.

We reach Valemount; surrounded by mountains this val-ley village offers numerous adventures to tourists and resi-dents. The area is home to lakes, provincial parks, marshes, waterfalls, and river rafting et al – surely a camper/hikers paradise. Nearby is the second oldest park in B.C., Mount Robson Provincial Park (created in 1913). Unfortunately, the mountain was dressed in clouds as we rolled by. Luck-ily, we easily find a motel and unpack the van. The cav-ity sits empty minus one suitcase, mine, which remained at home on the bedroom floor, and so I am left with nothing. A quick visit to a “one stop fits all” shop, I have the essentials and we are off to Jasper, Alberta.

It’s time for lunch and a quick trip to the hospital to renew the prescriptions I left behind. We browse through the gift shops and museums marvelling at the art in local galleries. Jasper accommodations are pricey so we decide to head for Hinton and take a short scenic drive to Maligne Lake, the largest natural lake in the Canadian Rockies – white sands, wildlife and tranquility all in one. Wild strawberries dot the grassy area that leads to the lake while elk and sheep graze nearby undisturbed by our presence. Highway 16, better known as the Yellowhead, takes us the 80km to Hinton.

Intrigued by the name Yellowhead, I looked it up on the Net: Initially it was the secret trail to the fur cache of its namesake, the golden-locked Iroquois Metis guide known as “Tete Jaune” (literally translated as “yellow head”) who guided for Canada’s biggest rival companies, the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company.

Along the way, we spot a black bear and goats licking the salt from the asphalt shoulder; wildlife enthusiasts’ cameras

posed, slow down for safety and souvenir photos. We locate a Super 8 motel overlooking Hinton and bed

down for the night. Much to our dismay, motel prices have risen to over $100 but now include a full breakfast.

The morning sun beats through the breakfast area and mixes with the air-conditioning as it warms the room. It’s time to get back on the road again. First stop: the Jasper Tramway; the town site of Jasper is built in the shape of a “J,” which is clearly visible from the 2,265m platform at the top of Cana-da’s highest and longest aerial tramway. A cold wind whistles us around the wooden walkway as we inhale the mountain air and view the surrounding vista. We are captured in the walls of six mountain ranges, which feed the lakes and rivers below. This is truly a photographer’s dream as seen by digital images of smiling faces amidst the mountain vista.

Next stop: Athabasca Falls. The sounds and sight of rac-ing water adds a slight chill to the hot air. I stand in awe of the water’s power, swirling, spraying its way towards the cascad-ing falls. Shelves of grey rock lie before me, water tumbling towards the drop-off, and an apron of evergreens surround the scene guarded by a background of snow-patched mountains. Guardrails and stone steps lead us along the many paths of this world-class attraction. There is so much to see and do outside of Jasper Township; next time we’ll map our trip.

It’s mid-afternoon when we leave the falls and make our way to the shrinking Columbia Icefields. We manage to catch the last trip up to the Athabasca Glacier. Our driver says each of the tires on the specialty built “ice explorers” cost $9,000 and they’re kept clean by running through a body of water prior to ascending the mountain of ice. The actual icefields cover an area of 325km and are estimated to be 365m deep:

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IF YOU GO:• The best way to appreciate the breathtaking sceneryis to

be amongst the mountains. The top of the Lake Louise Sight-seeing Gondola offers the most spectacular view of Lake Louise, Victoria Glacier, and the mountain peaks of the Con-tinental Divide. The Sightseeing Gondola climbs to an eleva-tion of 6,750 ft (2,057 m), the perfect place to experience the panoramic splendour of the Rockies and the Bow Valley.

• Take time for a tour onto the icy slopes of the Athabasca Glacier, located at the Columbia Icefields. You will travel in a specially designed coach to the middle of the glacier. Your driver will point out interesting geological features as you travel in safety and comfort. At the icefall below the glacier headwall, you will have the option of stepping out onto ice formed from snow falling as long as 400 years ago.

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Day 1 - March 30: Surrey to Salem, Oregon

Home pick up and Duty free stop I-5 south to the state capital, Salem, Oregon

Day 2 - March 31: Salem to Redding, California (B)

Cross Sisku Mountains Admire the majestic Mt. Shasta as you enjoy Teresa’s juice

and cookies Day 3 - April 1st: Redding to Fresno, California (B)

Lunch on your own and time to explore the many historical

landmarks in Old Sacramento Head south on old Hwy 99 into Fresno for the night

Day 4 - April 2nd: Fresno to San Diego, California (B)

Travel south through Bakersfield Tour the jewel of the California missions in San Juan Ca-

pistrano Relax in your accommodations in Old San Diego

Day 5 - April 3rd: San Diego, California (B)

Explore Sea World and see the famous Shamu Orca, or

take in the splashy high energy show, the Dolphin Discov-

ery showcasing bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales.

Spend the whole day or return to your hotel to relax by the

pool. Return shuttle times to be arranged

Take some time to discover the historic buildings of Old

Town San Diego Day 6-April 4th: San Diego to Palm Springs, California (B)

Discover the world’s largest zoo. Be sure to see their latest

Giant Panda addition, ride the Skyfari aerial tram and hop

on a guided bus tour of the grounds and over 4000 animals

Learn about the California wine industry as you sample

wine from Temecula’s oldest winery Day 7 - April 5th: Palm Springs (B) Hot American breakfast Find out today from your local guide why Palm Springs is a

preferred destination for world travelers. He will tell you

about its rich history and show you many of the highlights

of this exciting desert city Free afternoon to explore on your own

Day 8 - April 6th: Palm Springs (B,L) Discover the Living Desert Park - 1200 acre wildlife

and botanical oasis. This park features 152 animal

species from the world’s deserts. A guided tram tour

with take you around with stops at various animal

and plant exhibits; a lunch treat today Day 9 - April 7th: Palm Springs (B,L) Explore Joshua Tree National Park with breath tak-

ing views of rock formations and the multitude

blooming cacti Scrumptious boxed lunch in the park from a famous

local deli Enjoy the live entertainment of the fabulous Palm

Springs Follies - a world-famous, Broadway caliber

celebration of the music, dance, and comedy of the

40s, 50s, and 60s Day 10 - April 8th: Palm Springs to Las Vegas (B)

Taste samples at the Ethel M Chocolate Factory and

stroll through their cactus garden You will marvel at the lights of Las Vegas strip be-

fore taking in the dazzling laser show on Freemont

Street Day 11 - April 9th: Las Vegas, Nevada (B)

Today is yours to explore the many lobbies of the

mega casino hotels on the strip or you can hop on

the coach for an optional trip to the factory outlet

stores You may also want to book one of the many acts

and shows available; Terry Fator, Cirque de Soleil !,

The Blue Man.

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Time to warm up as we head south. This tour is a favorite as we experience the desert cactus in bloom.

Highlights include a stay in Old San Diego, San Diego Zoo, Sea World, four nights in Palm Springs, Living

Desert Park, Joshua Tree National Park, the Follies Show, Las Vegas, Reno, Scotty’s Castle, Virginia City.

Join us and explore !

Day 12 - April 10: Las Vegas to Tonopah, Nevada (B)

Head North through Death Valley, home to more than

1000 species of plants and 50 of those found nowhere

else in the world Enjoy a tour of Scotty’s Castle, a window into the life

and times of the roaring 20’s and depression 30’s

Day 13 - April 11: Tonopah to Reno, Nevada

Explore the 19th century mining town of Virginia City

Re-discover the biggest little city of the world, Reno,

and try your luck at one of the many casinos down-

town Day 14 - April 12: Reno to Sisters, Oregon (B)

Heading North you travel into Oregon state passing by

Upper Klamath Lake Admire the mountainous terrain through the

Deschutes National Forrest as you enter the unique

festival town of Sisters, Oregon Day 15 - April 13: Sisters to Clackamas, Oregon (B,D)

The morning is free to browse the many unique shops

of Sisters, Oregon and remember you are still in the

tax free zone Cross over the Cascade Mountains into the Portland

suburb of Clackamas Reminisce with your new friends at your wrap up

dinner Day 16 - April 14: Clackamas to home (B)

Enjoy a hot buffet breakfast on your last day of this

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enough ice to last over the next 300 years. This icefield drains into the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. The Athabasca Glacier, where we stand, is about 6km in length and 300m deep. Fissures of fast flowing water allow us to taste the fresh, icy cold water. I can’t help wondering how old my mouthful is and what the world was like back then.

We decide to look around Banff, spend the night in Cal-gary then continue on to Drumheller to visit dinosaurs at the world famous Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology. This museum is by far one of the best I have visited and it encom-passes all ages. It feels as though one is walking amongst giants in another world. I was amazed to watch the scientists at work brushing away eons of debris from artifacts some 65 million years old. In the 1880s, while searching for coal, J.B. Tyrrell discovered a dinosaur’s skull and the rest is history. Just down the road on Hwy 10 are the Hoodoos. They look like sandstone mushrooms carved by wind and water erosion over thousands of years. They are very fragile; if the cap is destroyed, the remainder of the sculpture will crumble.

Calgary hotels are expensive, so we take a side trip to Cochrane, where we spend the night. The next morning we head back to Banff but are only allowed a pit stop as our park fees have expired. Our next destination is Golden in the Kick-ing Horse Mountains, where we have lunch and strike out for Revelstoke. Our first stop is the hydroelectric dam, the second largest facility in B.C. with enough energy to power 747,600 homes a year. This massive concrete structure is eas-ily viewed from the highway.

I think Revelstoke is one of B.C.’s best-kept secrets. This heritage town with its 60 historic buildings, of which some are still lived in, is well preserved. Situated on the Columbia River, guarded by the Monashee and Selkirk Mountains and part of the world’s only interior rainforest, its history dates back to the building of the railway; maintained for future generations through its informative museums. Many world records have been made at the community ski jump. Alpine sports and snowy vistas greet the winter visitors while hik-ing and camping welcome summer enthusiasts. The locals are friendly and prices are reasonable.

After spending a night in Revelstoke, we begin the last leg of our journey on Highway 1 through Kamloops and the Fra-ser Canyon, always a favourite, back to the Lower Mainland. The water runs high in the mighty Fraser as by now most of the mountains are drained of snow. I watch a freight train wind its way along tracks laid by Chinese labour so many years ago and as my eyes climb the rock cliffs blasted long before modern technology’s safety standards, I think once again of Revelstoke, the last spike and the men that died to make this province accessible.

All in all, we’ve covered 3,500km in five days with just enough visiting in each of our destinations to quench our cu-riosity about returning.

ON THE ROAD AGAINHoodoos


Travel & Adventure

Travelling across Canada with a near-empty bank ac-count, an old motorhome loaded down with drift-wood and blackberry sauce, Barb and Dave Reese’s

destination was the Atlantic Ocean. The result was RV Can-ada on a Dime and Dream, written by Barb describing the daily challenges they faced trying to sustain themselves sell-ing driftwood and blackberry jam at flea markets or farmers markets to pay for their travel expenses. Some nights, they didn’t know how they would get the money needed to put gas in the tank to carry on the next leg of their journey, but some-how it worked out, despite ups and downs along the way.

With a dream to travel throughout Canada, Dave and Barb started out on that first trip with only $300 in their pocket. Not only have they had some remarkable experiences, it has led Barb into new directions as a writer and as a successful speaker at several RV Shows. She was a presenter at the 2010 RV Lifestyle Seminars in Kelowna, which is a major event for people wanting to learn about RVing. She considers herself self-educated and has graduated from the school of life. She calls the many challenges she faced the “potholes of life.”

“We got through our first trip on a wing and a prayer,” says Barb, who adds, “we had no clue, but our second trip was much easier because we knew what to expect.” That first book and their experiences along the way have influ-enced many people to turn their dreams into reality regard-less of finances or age. It takes a desire to succeed and a willingness to overcome the challenges they will face each day but dreams can come true.

Four years after their maiden trek, the Reeses stocked up on more driftwood, 195 jars of blackberry jam and copies of Barb’s book, and pointed themselves towards Newfoundland and Labrador, over 7,000 kilometres from their Sunshine Coast home. This time, their mode of travel was Boo the Menopausal Van, who hated to climb hills and the heat but this experience gave Barb more material for her next book – RV Canada with Boo the Menopausal Van and even more memories to share with her followers.

Having crossed Canada twice, the Reeses planned their next adventure that led them in a completely new direction. “A big dream of ours was to get to Canada’s most north-ern mainland community, Tuktoyaktuk,” says Barb, which motivated their 2009 trip to the Far North. “We travelled through the mountains and glaciers, which are absolute-ly spectacular and the people we met were amazing.” Of course, this led to her next book, RV Canada’s North on a

Dream, which came out in the spring of 2011 and will be sold on their 2011 summer tour.

“We were honoured to stay with the Tlingit First Nations People during six days of celebration and totally immersing ourselves in their culture, which was an amazing experi-ence,” recalls Barb, who said that is what her travels are all about. “You can make a decision to travel as a tourist or travelling with the goal of meeting fellow Canadians and making new friends.”

Performing a water pouring ceremony while standing in the Arctic Ocean, they emptied a small jar of water from the Pacific Ocean and gathered water to take home with them. This tradition started on their first trip when they took water from the Pacific to the Atlantic and put their feet in each at the beginning and end of their trip.

When Barb and Dave are home in Powell River, it isn’t just time to relax. Both are very involved in their community and have organized the annual MS Carnation Carnival for the past 10 years. Barb was instrumental in starting the Valley Women’s Network, the Red Hatters in Powell River and the yearly Powell River Writers Conference.

DREAM BIGBY CAROL ANN QUIBELL

Above, Barb and Dave Reese take a rest at the Inuvik Visitors Centre. Opposite page, Dave scans the beach looking for driftwood.


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Not even a fire stops these two from following through with their dreams. Preparing for their 2011 ad-venture, they loaded up the van and trailer with their supplies, belongings and new kayaks only to have the van burn itself up a week before depar-ture, creating a change of plans but not a trip cancellation.

Barb and Dave are now travelling in a motorhome, initially heading to Prince George and then west to Kit-wanga Junction, which will lead them up the Stewart Cassiar Highway and the Yukon Border, Whitehorse and Dawson City. Watch for them along the Liard, in the North West Territories and Yellow-knife. Northern Alberta and Saskatch-ewan roads will lead them towards Manitoba and Ontario before heading home at the end of August.

When asked whether they will be

paying their travel expenses the same way as the very first trip, Barb re-plied, “All of our trips are like that. We sell at farmers markets, festivals, and other events.” They don’t have the income to afford to stay on the road that long and therefore rough it a lot and sell along the way.

“We are living proof that you don’t have to have a lot of money to travel and at our ages we have to make use of every single day we have.” Barb further adds, “We were told, ‘you don’t have a money problem. You have an idea problem.’” That mantra got them all across Canada in 2003, 2007 and up north in 2009 and it will again on their 2011 journey. By using their imagination and creativity, the couple earns enough money to make their trips successful. “You have a choice – you can either sit at home or you can get out there and make it happen,” says

DREAM BIG “If you can dream it, you can do it, so get out of your own way and make your dreams come true!” –Barb Reese

the intrepid go-getter, “dream big.” Barb loves a challenge and with Dave

at her side, she has succeeded in making many of their dreams come true. They have proven that people don’t need to be rich to travel; it just takes big dreams, a lot of faith and a little luck thrown in to make it happen.


It’s hard to imagine a world without takeaway contain-ers, Popsicle sticks or ice-cream cones because we eat on the run. In fact, the development of ice-cream cones

took centuries. Iced cream puddings became popular in the late 1700s and wafers of fine flaky biscuit were eaten with or after the pudding as a digestive aid at the end of the meal. Although wafer cornucopias were used to decorate iced pud-ding dishes, the pudding was not inserted in them.

Iced puddings were popular also in the 1800s, but con-tainers were rarely mentioned in cookbooks. Mrs. A.B. Mar-shall’s Cookery Book, 1888, had a recipe for almond-encrust-ed cornets filled with cream or “water-ice or set custard of fruits, and served for a dinner, luncheon, or summer dish.” Chef Ranhofer’s book, The Epicurean: A Complete Treatise of Analytical and Practical Studies on the Culinary Art, 1894, had a recipe for “Rolled-Waffle Cornets” and recommended putting flavoured whipped cream in the cornets.

In the streets, Italian immigrants in London may have sold ice cream in cones, but there is no evidence of this practice. Biscuit cup companies became popular at the turn of the 20th century. Antonio Valvona registered the first patent in 1902 in Manchester, England for an “Apparatus for Baking Biscuit Cups for Ice Cream.”

The ice-cream cone was introduced by accident at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. The International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers (IAICM) credits Ernest Ham-wi with the invention. Pastry-maker Hamwi sold “zalabia,” a traditional Levantine flat waffle-like pastry sprinkled with confectioner’s sugar. His stall happened to be next to an ice-cream stand run by 16-year-old Arnold Fornachou.

Fornachou ran out of ice-cream dishes midway through

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the fair so Hamwi twisted his zalabias into cones and scooped Fornachou’s ice cream into them to serve to the public. They became an instant success. J.P. Heckle approached Hamwi after the fair to buy his waffle machine and ask him to partner in the first ice-cream cone company, the Cornucopia Waffle Company. In 1910, Hamwi opened his own company, the Missouri Cone Company. The first U.S. patent was issued in 1924 for a “machine for forming thin, freshly baked wafers while still hot into cone-shaped containers.”

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1/4 cup sugar1/2 cup water3 large egg yolks11/4 cups light cream11/4 cups heavy cream6 tablespoons crème de menthe4 squares of dark chocolate, chopped

In a heavy saucepan, dissolve sugar in 1/2 cup of water. Bring to the boil and boil until 215 F (102 C).

Beat the yolks in a bowl. Slowly pour in the syrup, beating until the mixture becomes thick and light.

In another bowl, whip the creams together until soft peaks form. Fold the cream into the yolks with the crème de menthe and chocolate. Pour the mixture into a container, cover and freeze until firm. Before serving, transfer ice cream to the fridge for 30 minutes.

Iced puddings were popular also in the 1800s, but containers were rarely mentioned in cookbooks.

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planning their seasonal vacations, whether it’s a short weekend getaway or a weeklong trip to

an exotic locale. But before you book your trip, it’s important to be aware

of your rights and responsibilities as a travel consumer. We hope your holiday is everything you want it to be. Here are a few steps to ensure you have a smooth journey:

Start with trust. Book your travel through a licensed B.C. travel agent, and make sure you check them out at mbc.bbb.org first. When you book with a licensed B.C. travel agent and do not receive your contracted travel ser-vices, you may be eligible for compensation from the B.C. Travel Assurance Fund.

Read all the fine print. A deal may look great but there may be restrictions on when you can travel, what services are covered in your “all inclusive,” or what charges are in-cluded on the advertised airline price.

Know your cancellation rights and refund policy. Some-times the unexpected happens and you may decide to cancel your trip. Know the terms and conditions for what refund you might be entitled to if you voluntarily cancel your trip.

Check your insurance. It’s always a good idea to check into travel insurance, whether it’s to cover medical emer-gencies, trip cancellation, or stolen valuables. But before buying any insurance, check your existing policies, like your home insurance and employment benefits – you may already be covered.

Be credit card smart. Many credit card companies monitor their clients’ transactions looking for irregular pur-chases, and may suspend their accounts to protect them. Let your credit card provider know when and where you’ll be travelling to avoid any inconvenient situations.

Protect your identity. If you’re travelling outside of the country, keep your passport, any other identification and valuables locked away in your hotel’s safety deposit box. Even if you’re vacationing close to home, it’s a good idea to keep important personal identification locked away, rather than carrying them around.

Don’t be surprised when it comes to auto rental charges. Read the fine print of your car rental agreement carefully. Make sure you understand the additional fees: in-surance (you may already be covered via your personal auto

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I like gangs. I’ve always liked gangs. I joined my first when I was 10, my second when I was 16 and I’ve been in God’s gang for over 40 years now. Some time ago,

in the newspaper, I discovered another! They call themselves the “Over the Hill Gang.” There was a big picture of them in the second section peddling down the Galloping Goose trail. Seniors all! They had on neat crash helmets and each wore a different colour jacket. The ladies were sporting spandex!

They were coming right at me as I stared into their grin-ning faces. There were five of them and only one of me. They didn’t scare me. We are from the same fraternity. Be-hind those smiles was a message, and not one to be taken lightly, either. I read it loud and clear. They were saying, “Better not mess with us. Be smart and stay out of our way! We’re the Galloping Goosers and we have wheels! Stand in our way and we’ll stomp you into mush.”

Well, that might not have been exactly what their smiles were saying, but I felt they were saying we needed to rally to the cause. We seniors, I mean. Those guys and gals looked tough. You could see it in their eyes as their bifocals glistened in the sun. You knew it by the grins and the way they clutched the handlebars of their bicycles. You could feel it in the spandex they wore. Only the very young and the uneducated would have the cour-age to challenge them (well, maybe the police, but they carry guns!). These Trojans of the open road, these pilgrims of time and circumstance, were making it known to one and all, they wanted the ban lifted on the no motorized bicycles allowed on the Galloping Goose trail!

Their argument made sense. When you’re too tired to pedal anymore, and perhaps want to take a power nap, you can still keep rolling along. They reminded me once more that we se-niors are not to be trifled with. We are not only tenacious, but audacious too when not taken seriously. We are not beyond

protest and we will arise to protect our dignity. We will bare our teeth, (or gums, depending) and make our stand!

That’s what I think the “Over the Hill Gang” was doing. Making a stand! I sure would like to join their gang, but I don’t own a bicycle. Every time I get on one, both tires go flat. They sure don’t make bikes like they used to. I have a scooter, but motorized scooters aren’t allowed on the Gallop-ing Goose trail either! That doesn’t stop my imagination. I can see it now, scooting along in the centre of the pack, crash helmet slightly askew to give me that rakish look, my red satin jacket (or is it rayon?) with the yellow lightning bolts glimmering in the sun. I wouldn’t go for the spandex though.

I once tried on a spandex suit. My wife commented that I looked like an over-inflated inner tube on the verge of ex-ploding. I had it on for a full four minutes when she went to get the mop and the pail. I was surprised I could hold my breath that long.

Some don’t think those over 65 would have the audacity to form a gang. But those people are wrong! The Over the Hill

Gang proves that. The paper said there are 14 of them. The oldest is 91! If he isn’t the leader, he should be. I mean, after all, he’s gone the furthest distance. I bet since that article and photo were printed, the Over the Hill Gang’s numbers have increased. Many seniors out there would jump at the chance of being a Galloping Gooser!

But, when the rubber hits the road (or the trail), I guess I just don’t qualify. Much the pity! I don’t really like to ride bicycles, but I’d really like to be part of a gang. A reckless kind of gang that says, “Don’t underestimate us! We won’t be shuffled aside and we won’t be pushed around unless, of course, we are in a wheelchair. Down with tyranny and up with motorized bicycles (and scooters)!” Those are my kind of people!

I once tried on a spandex suit.My wife commented that I

looked like an over-inflated inner tube on the verge of exploding.

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