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HAMILL CREEK TIMBER HOMES Designing and Crafting Unique Timber Frame Homes Since 1989 Meadow Creek, BC 250.366.4320 | 1.888.713.1800 sales@hamillcreek.com | HamillCreek.com WHERE IS MEADOW CREEK? Exactly… welcome to ‘downtown’ Meadow Creek OPENING SOON! MEADOW CREEK BAR & GRILL AND LODGING! (Right beside the store) Call for more info. Kaslo Golf Club Wing Creek Resort Meadow Creek Store Offers: groceries, cold beer & liquor department, gas, ice, lottery, postal services, feed and hardware. Open Monday To Saturday from 9 am – 6 pm (closed Sunday & most holidays) 250-366-4216 meadowcreekstore@telus.net Ten minutes from Kaslo and a world away from everything. Half hour between Nelson and Kaslo near hot springs, golf and Balfour Ferry. 30 Kaslo and Area Guide 2019| Kaslo BC, Canada www.visitkaslo.com
The North End North End of Kootenay Lake Forty km (25 miles) north of Kaslo is the beautiful Lardeau Valley which embraces the communities of Lardeau, Cooper Creek, Meadow Creek, Howser, Argenta and Johnsons Landing. The rich valley farmland is the result of the ebb and flow over thousands of years by the Duncan and Lardeau Rivers through the flats at the head of the lake. The area was first settled at the turn of the last century when a flood of prospectors invaded the area. In 1912, the first of several homesteading families arrived to eke out a living by farming and logging on the bench land. Starting in the 1950s the area saw an increase of people who were looking for a way to build a principled and sustainable community or just to get back to nature. The north end of the lake includes five biogeoclimatic zones, from low-lying wet valleys with towering cedar and cottonwoods to the scree on the peaks dribbling down into spectacular alpine meadows. Wildlife includes deer, moose, elk, black and grizzly bears, mountain caribou, wolverine, wolves and mountain goats. The streams contain cutthroat and rainbow trout, Dolly Varden (bull trout) and mountain whitefish. Lardeau Valley Museum A little north of the Meadow Creek town centre, just past the Lardeau Valley Community Hall, is a small museum. It is filled with homey items that were treasured or else were used daily in years past. Also on display is a complete set of early 20th century dentistry equipment. The foot/treadle-powered dentist drill will give you the chills. Open during July and August or by appointment, email museum.lvhs@gmail.com. If the museum is not open it’s worth stopping anyway. There is still lots to see as you roam about the grounds. The history lessons become hands-on at the Lardeau Valley Harvest Festival every year as some of the old equipment is still functional. Meadow Creek Spawning Channel From late August to early October, the flashing bright red of thousands upon thousands of spawning kokanee is a sight to behold. The Meadow Creek spawning channel was constructed in 1967 with BC Hydro funds and was the world’s largest at the time. The channel supports a total of 250,000 spawning kokanee. Ten to fifteen million fry are produced annually with mean egg-to-fry survival rate of 45%. The spawning channel is open to the public unless there is unusually high bear activity. There are walkways and an interpretive site for visitors. It is located 4 km north of Meadow Creek off Hwy 31. Duncan Dam Kootenay Lake was dammed in 1967. The Duncan Dam, a 40 metre earthfill dam with no power generation facilities, was the first of the three Columbia River Treaty dams to be built in the Canadian section of the Columbia River Basin. It controls the flow of the Duncan River, the tributary that provides about 13% of the water flowing into Kootenay Lake. Fry Creek As the dam neared completion, the valley bottom was cleared of large trees, the original residents of the community of Howser displaced, and some farms and orchards were flooded. When the water began to rise and fill the new reservoir, the original Duncan Lake increased in size from 25 km to 45 km in length. You can visit the dam. Follow the signs on Hwy 31 north of Meadow Creek to Duncan Dam – or do the armchair version! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoOTEZFr- JGA Gerrard Rainbow Trout Would you like to see the largest species of rainbow trout in the world? If so, take a day off and head up the lake! Gerrard was once a settlement on the Lardeau River although it’s only a few cabins and a bridge today. For local folks, a trip upriver to picnic and view the spawning Gerrard is a popular Mother’s Day tradition. From the viewing platform, the huge fish can easily be mistaken for logs in the river. Then you see that they are moving, slowly, upstream. Not logs! Due to overfishing, the Lardeau River has been closed to fishing rainbows since the 1940s. But this closure has worked in favour of the fish. Back in the 1950s the Gerrard run was down to less than 150 fish. Today, thanks to fishing regulations and the addition of nutrients to the north arm of Kootenay Lake by the Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program and the Ministry of Environment, the Gerrard run is over 1,000 fish in a year. To reach the viewing platform from Meadow Creek, stay on Hwy 31 (well-maintained gravel road) until you cross the bridge over the Lardeau River near the outlet of Trout Lake (approx 45 minutes from Meadow Creek). The viewing platform and parking area is to the right of the road after the bridge. www.visitkaslo.com Kaslo and Area Guide 2019| Kaslo BC, Canada 31
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