We are at Smither;s now. camping right in front of the Glacier. Jagdish said , he feels cold just looking at it so he is all snuggled in his sleeping bag in the car, too cold for the tent. We need to buy wood for now on. I will post the Glacier picture tomorrow , it is pretty cool.
Today we drove the Yellow head higway from Prince George t oSmithers. Smithers is an alpine skiing village but nothing like Whistler. It is very pretty with Glacier and all but not commercial at all. We learned that in early 1900;s the Dutch and the Swiss people came and homesteaded here at Smithers so it is sort of Swiss village. Another interesting titbits about Smithers: The Egg Cartons were invented here and the first road trip here was done by an American from Seattle ( i thought we were the first ones :) in 1912.
On the way here , we took a detour to Fort Saint James: First trading post in Canada. They have recreated the area with complete functioning places and costumed volunteers. We found out how the trade was done and how the "fist nation people were used as carriers as well as trappers". Most valuable trade was beaver fur and everything else was traded against it.
The logging trucks were constantly passing us on the way here. Many lumber mills and sadly lots of logging going on. But the newest industry is Molybdenum mining
The internet is acting weird, i guess should not expect too much sitting in the middle of no where. I will close it now with one last titbit: we get served peanut butter instead of butter will toasts, bagels or anything ( i guess it is healthier, just like vegimite)
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