12 Mile Remembered Our Lives Before They Burned Our Homesteads

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**This story will, I'm sure, break your heart; it has mine.** The mass destruction and loss was/is unbelievable. Community life, livelihood, homesteads, family, friends, dreams, animals, land, lakes, streams, virgin forests & shrubbery, wild flowers, wild fruit, mushrooms, vegetable gardens ---. The horrific list goes on, in a book you will be thinking of, talking about, and sharing, for a very long time. **12 Mile Community ceased to exist,** in the 1960s, when **BC Hydro Electric** (founded in **1961**) **chose to flood the Columbia Valley, south of Revelstoke, BC, Canada** **amazon customer / January 12, 2012: JS in Redlands / 5 of 5 stars great topic** / Author is a friend of mine and wanted to be sure to get her book. Looking forward to reading it. Came quickly.

subjects: Biographies,  History,  Biography,  Non-fiction,  Literature,  British Columbia,  BC,  Canada,  HIghway 23,  Mulvehill Creek,  Blanket Creet,  Columbia River,  Sutherland Falls,  12 Mile,  Raspberries,  Huckleberries,  Blueberries,  Strawberries,  Golf ball size Mushrooms,  Red Berries,  Violets,  Twinberries,  Bethlehem Stars,  Fireweed's spiked fuchsia heads,  Blue Bells,  Fragrant,  tiny,  pink,  trailing,  Arbutus Bells,  Cottonwood,  Birch,  Aspen,  Cedars,  Spruce,  Hemlock,  Pines,  Animals : Grizzlies,  Black Bears,  Coyotes,  Lynx,  Cougars,  Deer,  Elk,  Moose,  Porcupines,  Geese,  Mink,  Martens,  Weasels,  Skunks,  Beavers,  Muskrats,  Gophers,  Squirrels,  Flying Squirrels,  Chipmunks,  Bats,  Mice,  Rats,  ......,  Community,  Homesteads,  Burned,  Destroyed,  Decisions,  Take,  Leave,  Where to go,  Ferry,  Ferries

Places: British Columbia,  BC,  Canada,  HIghway 23,  Mulvehill Creek,  Blanket Creet,  Columbia River,  Sutherland Falls,  12 Mile

Times: 1960s