Carving the Western Path: Routes to Remember

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Transportation was key to opening up the sparsely populated southern Interior of British Columbia, which was rich in resources and ready for settlement in the late 1800s. The agricultural lands of the Okanagan and Nicola valleys, and the precious metals and coal of the Kootenays, lay largely unused or undiscovered. The challenge was getting to these areas.

  In this book, his final in the Carving the Western Path series, R.G. (Bob) Harvey tells the stories of the road through the Okanagan Valley, the highway alongside Kootenay Lake and the Crows Nest Railway. He also looks at how the challenge of moving people and cars over water was met, from river ferries running on human power or the force of the current to the 1,000-hp ferries on Interior lakes.

  Harvey's stories about B.C.'s fascinating transportation history speak of technical matters, but also of human resolution and determination in meeting nature's challenge.

Bob Harvey was born in Scotland and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in civil engineering in 1943. He is a former provincial deputy minister of highways. His previous books include Carving the Western Path: By River, Rail, and Road Through B.C.'s Southern Mountains, Carving the Western Path: By River, Rail, and Road Through Central and Northern B.C. and Head On! Collisions of Egos, Ethics, and Politics in B.C.'s Transportation History.
 

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