(111) Snowsheds

• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1944
• Subjects: Plank buildings; Lakes & ponds; Dirt roads; Canada; Indian; Erskine; Canada Goose
• Online Access: https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/enderby%3A409/datastream/JP2/download; https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/enderby%3A409

Excerpt from page 38 of "B.C.'s Inland Empire" by Erskine Burnett associated with this image: At Three Valley snow sheds have been built to protect the tracks from snow slides coming down the steep slopes. We are approaching a drier belt of country but the winter snowfall here is still heavy. At times Eagle Pass appears bleak and inhospitable, but see it in the first flush of early summer when the melting snows and warm sun have clothed the lower slopes in the summer dress of green ! See it again on a clear day of Indian summer when the first frosts have changed these same sloped into a blaze of gold which is reflected in the still depths of the lakes. You are travelling through a golden fairyland which banishes memories of the austerities of the pass. Three Valley station is near the west end of the lake and here we noticed a particularly fine flower garden which in 1939 was awarded one of the prized which the C.P.R. gives to employees along its lines. Archie Rutherford is the postmaster at Three Valley and in the half-light of early dawn we saw him hang up the out-going mail on the automatic pick-up and retrieve the incoming mail sack when thrown from the speeding train. At the time of the royal visit he acted as special constable. Some of the buildings at Three Valley have recently been moved away and rebuilt into a chalet on the summit of Mt. Revelstoke. One day we saw a flock of ten Canada geese paddling about unconcernedly a short distance off-shore. Eight were mature birds with the distinctive Canada Goose plumage and two immature. As far as we know they do not breed here so we came to the conclusion that someone nearby must have got the eggs and hatched them out under a hen and fed the goslings until they became semi-domesticated.