Next Workshop....In tandem with the Salish conference

[Mike Cleven]

At 01:10 AM 1/31/99 -0800, Jeffrey Kopp wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 12:19:18 -0800, you wrote:
>>Doesn't have to be Kamloops itself, by the way; within half an
>>hour/hour/hour and a half from there there's any number of small hospitable
>>communities that would be excellent locations for the Workshop - Savona,
>>Chase (Squilax), Salmon Arm, Falkland, Westwold, Merritt (where IIRC the
>>Douglas Lake Ranch still uses Jargon in its "working language"), Cache
>>Creek-Ashcroft, Lillooet.......each is a bit different/ some with more
>>amenities than others (Salmon Arm being the most "urban" other than
>>Kamloops itself, with Merritt right after).......
>
>Salmon Arm!  I love it!  Just as visually incongruous a name as
>"Medicine Hand."

I think you mean "Medicine Hat" (named after an "Indian doctor's" chapeau,
IIRC).  "Salmon Arm" refers to an "arm" of Shuswap Lake, which has about
five such arms, all fresh-water fjords in the windward flank of the
Monashee Range.....other Arms in BC include Indian Arm (adjacent to North
Vancouver), Bentinck Arm (adjacent to Bella Coola), etc.  There's also a
"Princess Louisa Reach"......


>So, tell us more about the Douglas Lake Ranch.  (I got 187 hits back
>from Alta Vista on it, but it's probably be easier to mooch the info
>than wade through them.)

I'll have to get a write-up on the Douglas Lake for you (NB in local
parlance, "the Douglas Lake" refers to the ranch, not the lake).  One of
the oldest working ranches in Canada, it is now the largest (since the
breakup long ago of the Gang Ranch), a living vessel of "cowboy culture",
and was owned for years by C.N. "Chunky" Woodward, scion of the Woodward's
Department Stores fortune (a Western Canada institution).