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Title: |
A Brief History of the Short Life of the Island Cache |
| Series: |
Solstice Series |
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| By (author): |
Mike Evans, Lisa Krebs With: John Bogle, Bob Parris, Heidi Standeven |
| ISBN10-13: |
1896445306 : 9781896445304 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Weight: |
.320 Kg. |
| Published: |
CCI Press - January 2004 |
| List Price: |
19.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Out of Print
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| Subjects: |
History of the Americas : Canada |
| Just before the Nechako and Fraser Rivers meet is a place called the Island Cache, where a community of settlers took up residence in the 1920s. The area was initially an island separated by a flood channel, and so far the Cache's entire history, flooding was an issue. The Cache was a very different place than Prince George, the city on its border. In 1970, the Island Cache was incorporated into the City of Prince George, and a period of escalating political turmoil began. Integration was swift and decisive. It was accomplished through by-laws, condemnation orders, and bulldozers. The event triggering it was a flood. This is a brief history of the Island Cache. It is about rivers and the lands around them; it is about floods of water and of power; it is about dykes, and the ground they are built on; and it is about the communities that build dykes and why they fail. The Cache was lost because power, like water, can seep into people's lives, around and under attempts to protect their communities, unseen until it is too late, and both house and home are swept away. Pushed to the margins of society, the people of the Cache survived as best they could. They created a vibrant community, but because it was very different from the communities of those with power, "progress" meant the end of the Cache. |
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