Leon Creek Church

I was inspired to post these because of a piece in the Lillooet News.   The article speaks of a painting of a church that they were not clear where it was, I could see right away it was the church on the Leon Creek Reserve of the Ts'kw'aylacw First Nation.   Some are from a trip as part of the Treaty negotiations in 1998, the others are from a camping trip I took with my brother in August of 2000.

The church in 1998

August 2000

Fred Alec 1998

Interior of the church

The wall behind the altar

Bridge over the Little Leon Creek to get to the buildings on the reserve in 1998

Looking out the front door of the church in August 2000

Looking out of a church window

Houses on the Leon Creek Reserve August 2000

Looking at the church from a house on the Leon Creek reserve

150 years the processing of tendering to build the road from Lytton to the Ashcroft area

It is interesting to read the Daily Colonist from 150 years ago.  The paper has a lot of coverage of what is happening in interior of BC during the gold rush.  On December 11th 1858 there is a long piece about the gold potential of the Fraser.

As you can see in the coverage from Lillooet, the first public road project went horribly over budget and took much longer than expected