British Columbia. Road
Forks off Blackman Road
Roads are not in the official geographical names databases
Forks off Blackman Road
Roads are not in the official geographical names databases
Lloyd Crate (born 1920) was maintenance foreman for the department of highways for most of the twenty-five years he worked in the McBride-Tête Jaune Cache area. Crate was born in Prince Rupert, and came to Lucerne , in Mount Robson Park, around 1945. Ice from Lucerne Lake supplied Canadian National Railroad passenger trains, and Crate worked in the icehouses one summer. Starting in 1936, the Crate family operated a fishing and hunting camp on Yellowhead Lake. In 1961 they moved to Tête Jaune Cache. At a farewell dance in the Red Pass community hall, “best wishes were extended from all the district with the hope that Lloyd will frequently be seen in the district operating the highways grader.” He retired in 1980.
References:
- Topping, William. A checklist of British Columbia post offices. Vancouver: published by the author, 7430 Angus Drive, 1983
I am looking for pictures of the lodge and camp that Lloyd Crate had on Yellowhead Lake. Any leads would be appreciated. Our family had a cottage just on the other side of Rockingham Creek from the lodge. We had the cottage until my grandfather who had the lease on the property passed away. We had it from 1949 to 1984 when we were given a months notice to vacate the cottage
When we were building the cottage we stayed at Crate’s Lodge. After the Crates moved out the government used it for what I believe was a juvenile detention center. At one point one of the boys got a fish hook caught in his ear. They came to the cottage because my dad was a doctor . However they didn’t know he was a veterinarian. He did cut off the barbed end and was able to pull it out. One of lots of stories