Rossland

and that's the you stick with the plan and the vision you can achieve great things you got to have a good plan to start with but we had a great plan to start with and we it's implementing it it's a lot of work and we're probably only halfway there but future generations will finish that off and i believe because the the tone is so firmly set and the plan has been followed so closely And the vision for this uncrowded experience for everybody, it's amazing to see it take shape and continue to grow.

my kids and I were just talking at dinner a couple of nights ago, but how, uh, you know, like I live here down here in Rossland and it was so cool that a guy, Ross Thompson could come in and kind of help vision the town and then got to name it after themselves.

I mean, uh, you kind of get to, you kind of got to do that.

A lot of that similar experience of let's envision and build out a whole community.

So I'll do anesthesia for a week and...

September and then you kind of go about your other rotations and then you come back to it a few months later and you're like oh yeah okay I remember this part or this part didn't quite stick and you kind of build on your learning and I really enjoyed that and I found it kind of worked for me the other draw was that because I'm from Nelson trail is an hour away and I love the West Kootenays and I was fortunate to live in Rossland for my year there which is just fantastic for outdoor activities like mountain biking and skiing.

So keeping that work-life balance going and being close to family for the first time in like, I think it was 10 years.

So that was nice.

Whatever Hennessey had been doing since he left Valerie's apartment building, he was no longer pretending to work on a Dustin Hoffman movie.

He and Abbott had fled north and rented an apartment near Rossland, a mountain community only a few miles inside Canada.

When the Royal Canadian Mounted Police finally encountered them in the nearby village of Trail, the meeting ended in gunfire.

A Mountie was wounded, Abbott was captured, and 23-year-old Michael Hennessey, the man who had persuaded Valerie to follow him with the promise of a movie role, was shot and killed.

Andrew here.

I am coming to you this morning from a very frosty Roslyn, BC.

You know, not much gets me fired up more at this time of year than waking up to a frosty yard, white-capped mountains, gorgeous blue sky, and some technicolor foliage happening out there, with a touch of snowliage happening on the, uh, higher elevations.

And you know we're getting real close to go time when I see A-Basin in Colorado has fired up their snow guns, and others are soon to follow.

California became Oregon, Oregon became Washington, and eventually the two men crossed into Canada.

By late November, they had surfaced around Trail and Rossland in British Columbia, small communities surrounded by mountains only a few miles north of the U.S. border.

On December 26th, police caught up with them.

[tense music] The confrontation occurred in the parking lot of a transmission shop in Trail.

There's massive boosterism all through North America.

Every little podunk town wanted to build an imposing edifice for, in Rossland's case, its post office, for its fire hall.

Yes, yes, yes.

And-

Right

... come from? Or was it all philanthropic, you know, for centuries?

But the, but, but in, like Rossland and Grand Forks, there was potential for a big population, right?

Yeah, but every city thinks it has that potential.

That said, I'm relaying it because all the evidence suggests that it's true, at least more likely than not.

In the room the men had rented in nearby Rossland were Valerie's belongings, and by the family's account, the slip for the cement.

Her leather jacket was later found to be among Abbott's belongings as well, though it remains unclear if he acquired it from one of the other men or directly from Valerie.

Surprisingly, only after the shootout did San Francisco police treat the