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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
12 Mile Remembered Our Lives Before They Burned Our Homesteads: Flooded and Burned Dreams of a Small Community in British Columbia

12 Mile Remembered Our Lives Before They Burned Our Homesteads: Flooded and Burned Dreams of a Small Community in British Columbia

Jarvis, Ada Domke

Paperback

Biographies GeneralCanadian History

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 1425169511
ISBN13: 9781425169510
Publisher: Trafford Pub
Published: Oct 29 2008
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.45 Width: 8.25 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

When 15 families were forced from their homes in the 1960s, a void was left in their lives and in the picturesque Columbia River Valley 12 miles south of Revelstoke, B.C.

BC Hydro, a British Columbia government entity, forced residents to sell their homes in the 1960s. It constructed a 150-mile-long water reservoir forming a water reservoir to supply Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State, USA. It destroyed homes and farms with bulldozers, fire and water. It paid meager rates for property, most of which was cleared by the homesteaders' backbreaking methods. BC Hydro then resold unflooded portions of property in Twelve Mile for 20 to 30 times the price it paid the homesteaders. The book reveals how helpless people become when a government agency wishes to force people from their homes and expropriate their lands. After surviving trying conditions in Europe and finding safe homes in a free country, the settlers felt helpless when their lands were expropriated and they were again uprooted and made to move on-but where would they go this time?

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