Begbie to Ft Fraser

Begbie Summit to Fort Frasier

Today was a lovely drive along mostly the Frasier River north to Prince George and then west to Fort Frasier. This is mostly long flat forested buttes with valleys that are covered with hay an wheat fields (surprising to me that there is so much farming here this far north). This is truly cattle country with the hills dotted with them.
We only saw one deer today (yesterday they were all over). There are moose signs everywhere but no sightings.
We stopped at 108 Mile House and took some pictures of the buildings including an old schoolhouse and it looked very similar to dad’s old one room in Springside. These roadhouses were not much more than a log cabin with a stove and bar and possibly later rooms for the miners heading to the gold fields.
I did learn however that the term shot glass came from here as a shot of whiskey was the same price a shotgun shell so if a miner had no money he could trade his shell (shot) for a small glass of liquor. Hence the term shot glass.
At Quesnel we stopped for groceries and gas. Bev liked the olives but at a similar store in Vanderhoof they did not have any of that kind.
Fort Frasier is the site of one of them most northern trading posts of the Hudson Bay Co. and we toured one of the old buildings. Bev does not want to go back to Fort St James which is supposed to be a larger one in better shape so we will go on to Hazelton tomorrow where they are have the largest collection of totem poles, and a First Nations Village.
This has just been the greatest adventure and our campsite tonight is in the Beaumont Provincial Park with Frasier Lake right beside us and pine and birch trees surrounding us.
Wish you all could see this in person