SENSE AND NONSENSE

  • THE STORM OF THE CENTURY

    It seems that ever since we moved into town in 2010 our winters have vastly improved. Of course living at Silver Birch Lodge, other people now ensure that we are warm and comfortable! The following is my take on events that occurred during that horrendous snowstorm – later labeled “The Storm of the Century.”                                                 …

  • REVEREND WILLIAM SWEETNAM

        The Reverend William Sweetnam arrived in the Fraser Lake area in 1911. Originally from Ireland, the pioneer Anglican minister resided in the BC Central Interior wilderness for twenty-five years before succumbing to the deadly affects of pneumonia, contracted on a long arduous journey by train and by boat to the South Coast, to join…