The author
was stationed at Atlin for five years prior to
1946 and was greatly attracted to the area.

Summer patrol on Atlin Lake.

On Atlin (Indian word for large)
Lake, about 35 miles from the six-
tieth parallel north latitude, which
forms the Yukon-B.C. boundary,
Atlin shares honors with Telegraph
Creek, 250 miles to the South, as
being the most isolated community
in B.C. Although firmly allied in
spirit and by boundary lines with
the rest of British Columbia, local

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By
Conse fi), Kelly,
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Despite much recent publicity given to British Co-
lumbia’s Northern hinterland, a great number of
people residing around Vancouver and other South-
erly portions of the Province, have only a very vague
idea of how far to the North one can travel and still
end up in B.C. End up ts the correct term, as often
1t 1s necessary to travel through Alaska and even the
Yukon Territory to arrive at some Northern B.C.

points, such as the little town of Atlin, for example.

interest in this rugged land centres
more around occurrences in the more
adjacent Yukon communities, such
as Carcross and Whitehorse.

The usual, and to date, least ex-
pensive method of reaching Atlin
from Vancouver, is to board the
C.P.R. Steamship, Princess Louise
or Norah, as she pulls out from Pier
BC some evening, and settle down
for a cruise very near the equivalent
of a present day ocean crossing in
time, at least, and much more scenic.
On the morning of the fifth day
after you go aboard, you tumble out
of your comfortable berth, peer out
the port hole, and find yourself read-
ing inscriptions scrawled on_ the
rocky cliffs above the dock at Skag-
way, Alaska. Ah, you mumble,

_ must be getting some place now.

You have, on this trip, looked
over Alert Bay, gone ashore at Prince
Rupert, Ketchikan, Wrangell and
Juneau, possibly sampling American
beverages and gawking at souvenir
shops at these last three ports. but

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now you are beginning to look for
the end of this fantastic journey,
which is reputed to be in British
Columbia. j
“WAIT PATIENTLY AND YOU'LL
RIDE”
A few hours later, you bid the
ship good-bye, ease humbly past cus-
toms officials, buy a railway ticket

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