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Hi Donald...just read your book about the history of the Fraser Valley and loved it.  Actually, couldn't put the darn thing down..and had to read it through to the end. 

There was one thing that I wanted to share with you ...just in case at one day in the future you are compiling information 'for another book'.

I am a volunteer with BC Parks and one time, I was listening to my bosses who went on a tour of the ecological reserve down the end of Chilliwack Lake.  Its right on the American border and there is a stand of old growth forest there that somehow the forester's didn't get. 

When they were walking through, they found what looked like a huge old stump...kind of skinny and tall...all covered in moss.  One of the boss's decided to pull off the moss, and was shocked to find that it was a gravestone in the shape of an oblisk.  According to the gravestone, the young Irish man who drowned was part of the 1846? Border Commission.  I guess there was some type of accident and he slid into the water...the next spring, they recovered his body (my guess it was still preserved because it was in glacier fed water)and buried him at the site of the gravestone. 

Also if you are ever looking for history on Golden Ears provincial park, Peace Arch provincial park, or Cultus Lake Provincial park, Shannon Falls Provincial Park etc.I have researched and written stories for BC Parks about them.  I would  gladly send them to you for you files.


Thanks

Marlene 