12 Mile Remembered Our Lives Before They Burned Our Homesteads - Flooded and Burned Dreams of a Small Community in British Columbia - Bok av Ada Domke
When 15 families were forced from their homes in the 1960s, a void was left intheir 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..