2022.009.2.40 Cleared Sand Island (highwater)

Accession Num: 2022.009.2.40

Negative Code: R37-47D

Extent:

Document Date: 1967-- - --

Donors: Estate of Florence Adshead

Creators: Florence Adshead

Keywords: 1960s, Arrow Lakes flooding (Columbia River Treaty), Columbia River, farms, Joe & Florence Adshead farm (Makinson), Sand Island, and The Narrows

Locations: Grahams Landing and Makinson

Physical Description:
1 photograph : col. slide ; 35 mm

Notes:
View from Joe Adshead & Florence Adshead farm, Makinson, looking south across levelled Sand Island after the island was cleared of vegetation in advance of BC Hydro's flooding of the Arrow Lakes valley, The Narrows, Columbia River, 1967. Shoreline at Grahams Landing cleared across The Narrows at right.

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