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(6.2 miles north of Warnder)
A colourful steamboat era preceded the railways. During mining boom days of 1893-98 a fleet of sternwheelers ran north from the railway at Jennings, Mont., to Fort Steele and vicinity.
Carrying prospectors, freight, and ore they battled treacherous currents, shoals, and canyons to provide a vital transport link.
The Kootenays owe them much!
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(On Highway 31A at Zincton)
Here beaver made a home for themselves and created an oasis of life for other creatures. They have dammed a stream, logged a forest, dredged canals, and built a house. Their pond, with its clear water, lush grasses, and dead trees, provided an attractive habitat for many insects, birds, and mammals. Beaver usually work and feed at dawn and dusk.
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(1 mile from the ferry terminal at Kootenay Bay, Kootenay Lake)
The orebody known to Indians as a source of lead for musket balls, was staked in 1882 by Bob Sproule, later restaked by Tom Hamill. The resulting lawsuit cost Sproule the property, and in revenge he murdered his rival, was convicted and hanged. Development included a smelter and townsite. This mine has the longest history in the province.
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(Sign at Rock Creek)
It was a big rush to a small creek, but it made history in BC. When hundreds of miners gathered here in 1860, Governor Douglas, fearing that both gold and trade would be lost to the Untied States, ordered the famed Dewdney Trail built from the Coast.
Richer strikes in Cariboo soon lured the miners north, but a vital travel route remained.
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(On Anarchist Mountain, 4 miles east of Osoyoos)
A valley north and south, a sandspit eat and west – this was the crossroad of the centuries. Down the valley of Indian trails came the laden horses of the Fur Brigade from 1824 to 1848. Later, miners and settlers streamed northward. Across the sandspit ran the busy Dewdney Trail to the eastern gold fields. Routes of the past are highways of today.
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