Lillooet

And then we ended up moving around little towns.

We went to Lillooet, which is another huge hamlet.

Actually, no, I think Golden has 2,500 people.

Sorry, I oversold it.

Lillooet has 6,000 to 7,000 people.

And then we moved to the bustling metropolis of Kamloops after that, where I spent more formative years, including high school and college.

And then I moved to UBC to go to school, which I then was doing my Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater, which is where I started the whole thing.

We also do one of our most popular and one of the ones that we started off like right at the beginning that we've been doing every single year since.

So I don't know how many trips we've done up there is the upper Lillooet River outside of Harrison.

Uh, so you boat across Harrison Lake, which is about a 60 kilometer lake.

So it's about an hour and a bit if the weather's good.

And if the weather's not good, it can be, it's taken me three hours to get back on that lake before.

Um, via jet boat.

And you fish the lower Lillooet in the springtime, usually February through March.

And you get cutthroat, you get some bull trout, but it's mostly cutthroat fishery with like small minnow patterns and stuff.

We're gonna keep cruising with a band name in the similar vein to the Canyon Falls Trailer Band.

We're gonna hear from the Camper Down Family Band out of Lillooet, BC, who have a brand new album out called Bright as a Penny.

We're gonna hear a track off of it called Gutters Heap Full here on Prairie Surfin'.

Enjoy.

It was 25 kilometers south of us.

Living where we live, we live in kind of like wildfire alley, you know, like Boston Bar to Clinton area, Lillooet to Kamloops.

It's like the golden triangle for dryness.

We didn't know that in 2013 when we moved in there, but...

The BC rail line from North Vancouver to Prince George goes through the central interior all the way.

Uh, it goes through Squamish, central interior, Lillooet, a Hundred Mile, and CN put forward a notice of discontinuance saying they didn't wanna operate anymore between Squamish and a Hundred Mile.

If that piece gets severed from the line, the rail line is no longer useful to the communities that it traverses.

And so our project has been trying to get the province, trying to get CN and the federal government to see the importance of the line and the potential for returning economic prosperity and passenger rail service to that area.

And he had former Emily Donna Burnett there speaking, who's from 100-mile.

But Lillooet, Merritt, places like that, even getting to Lower Mainland Mission, Peace Arch, there's been issues.

But I think like in the city too, like even when we are kind of awash with emergency rooms in Vancouver, and I know that when I, you know, when my daughter put tinfoil up her nose once on Easter Sunday, you know, you end up in...

Too much information.

Icky eye, some things I swear cannot be.

Some brand new music out of Lillooet, British Columbia.

We just heard from the Camper Down family band, who released an album last week called Bright as a Penny.

We heard the track, maybe the title track off of it, Pretty as a Nickel, Bright as a Penny.

... and to see them never catch a fish and then catching a fish.

So then, um, I did, um, when I did two in Lillooet, BC, and I kind of turned those into like a derby, friendly derby styles, and the girls would all, it became kind of like a fun competition.

And then, um, I did a- another one just this summer, it was like more local, and the girls that came out, none of them have ever fished before.

None of them have ever seen-

He said they would see when the time came at the end.

Faith Peters drove down from Lillooet.

In the courthouse, she met Ralph Sanders for the first time.

The little sister and the man who found the bodies had never laid eyes on each other before.