Susan and David's home at Big Lake British Columbia
left to right on Vancouver Island cousins Rob, Susan,
brother Jack, cousin Christy, myself and mother.
My mother was born in Alberta and grew up in
the cold and snowy city of Edmonton where she lived until finishing college. So
our family had the Canadian heritage to live on. In fact my sister Barb lives
in Quebec not very far from Ottawa, Ontario the capital of Canada. She has
lived there longer than the time in Gig Harbor, Washington. Before moving to
Quebec she along with her husband and two young children at the time lived in
the Vancouver British Columbia area. Growing up we would visited Vancouver on numerous
occasions since at that point our grandmother (mother’s mother) lived there
along with my mother’s oldest brother Bob along with his wife Joan, children
Rob, Susan and Christy. Rob is about two months older than my sister while
Susan is about a year and half younger than Rob. Christy is the youngest and is
about five years older than me. When I was ten Christy spent a summer with us
in Gig Harbor while our mother was down in the Portland, Oregon taking college
classes at Lewis and Clark College. Although I do know Rob and Susan I have
spent more time with Christy. All three of them live in British Columbia though
all three lived elsewhere for a period of time. Rob lives in Vernon, British
Columbia selling real estate. He lived quite a few years in England. In fact I
spent a few days with him in England when I visited there along with seeing my
brother Jack who was living in Germany at the time. With his time in England
Rob does have a partial British accent. Christy and her husband David lived in
England for a short period of time too. There middle son is Kent named after
the city of the same name. If you ever meet a Kent likely named after the city.
Susan and her husband David lived in Ottawa for a period of time while he was
working for the Canadian government. When they moved back to British Columbia
he had a position in the province government too.
So
now to the story about the title with Big Lake, British Columbia; this is the
area that Susan and David now live on their ranch. Though they don’t live on
Big Lake Ranch that is where their mail is delivered to. I have visited there a
couple times because of weddings. The first time was for the wedding of Susan
and David’s middle son. The wedding took place on the ranch. Mother and I
stayed at Christy and David’s place which is on Rose Lake east of 150 Mile
House. This is where you would get off get to Big Lake Ranch as well. It is at
least a half an hour drive to Susan and David’s place. The second visit was
when Christy and David’s oldest son got married just over three years ago.
Mother and I stayed at Susan and David’s place. This wedding took place at Rose
Lake on Christy and David’s property.
In
both cases of the weddings there were some who came for the occasions and
stayed in their RV’s on both properties. This is really a great way to spend
vacation time in the Big Lake area is traveling in your RV. Susan and David
have at least three lakes on their property and one that their house located
on. While we visited there a neighbor young woman living on the other side of
the lake came over and watched their grandchildren. I found this a wonderful
place to visit beyond seeing them. I look forward to my next visit to see them.
I hope that will be next summer depending on my mother’s health that is. I know
for sure I will visit once again at some point. That whole area of British
Columbia is so beautiful and a great place to get away to enjoy yourself and
relax. If you like fishing make sure to take your pole along with you. Actually
the whole province of British Columbia is nice to visit. Winter time you will
have to be careful since they do get a lot of snow in that part of British Columbia.
Christy and David spend time in Arizona while Susan and David usually go to
Mexico. Also Rob and his companion Tina go to Mexico during the winter too.
Make
sure that you take your camera with you for taking some awesome pictures. A
great place to take your children or grandchildren; you can have a grand time
spending out in the deep country. You can laugh a lot without anyone hearing
you.
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