Creston Flats, 1894
1894 : June : B.C. : Heavy snowfall and quick melt in late spring. Floods swamp much low lying land. At Nelson, a record high water mark of 30 feet above average was established on the West Arm.
1894 : June : I.R. 148A, N-WT. : Four chiefs of the Kainai “Fish Eater” band swap 50 horses for 50 head of cattle, beginning the Kainai cattle industry.
1894 : June 3 : B.C. : the “Cyclone” on Kootenay Lake wrecked Kaslo and mauled Boswell’s new wharf. Much of Alberta and B.C. Exploration dyking on what is now “Creston Flats” was destroyed at around 4:00 in the afternoon.
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1894 : June : I.R. 148A, N-WT. : Four chiefs of the Kainai “Fish Eater” band swap 50 horses for 50 head of cattle, beginning the Kainai cattle industry.
1894 : June 3 : B.C. : the “Cyclone” on Kootenay Lake wrecked Kaslo and mauled Boswell’s new wharf. Much of Alberta and B.C. Exploration dyking on what is now “Creston Flats” was destroyed at around 4:00 in the afternoon.
http://www.crowsnest-highway.ca/timeline.pl?page=8
posted by Neil Young at 3:42 PM
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That winter it had snowed so hard
That the melt water reached to our horses’ bellies
The day we trotted them down to the lake,
50 of our finest, in single file,
That one last time.
My father had taught me to cast the line,
Whitefish, grayling, sweet white flesh
Broiled over evening fires, or smoked
For the long months when the fish slept deep
In the frozen lake
Now the sour stench of meat and milk
Is on our hands. We have fenced and confined,
Our living become a trade.
Our water meadows trampled to mud
We fish no more.
And I remember that bright spring day
And our free lives then, that we sold cheap,
When we trotted our horses down to the lake
And handed them over for so much meat,
Our freedom too.
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