Red Pass

This is Red Pass, near the B.C. - Alberta border. We saw it on the map and stopped to see if we could get a bite to eat. Fine if you like eating wildflowers at this Canadian National Railroad whistle stop!

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Wayne Tocheniuk offered the following memories:

I spent the first 12 years of my life in Red Pass. Our house stood not far from where you took your photo and I used to fish at the small warf that was below the Red Pass sign.

When I was young there was a store at the bottom of the road, a school an the top of the hill on the highway, and a small community hall. There was also a hobo camp situated on the other side of the trestle going the other direction. This would be from 1961 to 1972. Red pass had only railway workers living in it except the game warden and his family that lived in the house on the top of the road in. They lived in the old police station, I remember the cells in the basement.

The store used to sell gas on the river for small airplanes and I remember them roaring past behind our house not many feet away.

Well I could go on and on but that will give you a bit of info.

— Wayne

Bob McLeod offered more information:

My Dad was the station agent there from 1964 - late 1967. In 1967 we bought the general store from the Williams family and ran it until 1969, when the provincial government decreed that they didn't want any commercial outlets inside Mount Robson Provincial Park. I know Wayne and most of his family though I haven't seen or talked with any of the people from there in years. The dock that Wayne refers to was built by the Williams. It was one of four that existed at the time. There was the Williams dock, Lional Youngs' dock, Bill Hallams' dock and the one down by the station. (I believe the one that had been down below the station was washed away shortly after we moved away.) The picture you show is from above the Williams dock looking up to the mouth of Moose Lake. There were other private holdings in the park just up the lake at the next point where the McCreadys' had their summer cabins. Up at Lucerne, the Lauries' had a farm and there was another small divisional station that no longer exists as well.

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If you would like more information, I would be pleased to offer as much as I can.  If you have Wayne's e-mail address, please send him a message and tell him I'm sorry he broke his arm when we were tobogganing when we were kids.

Thanks! 

Bob McLeod 
Kingston, ON. 
bob_594@hotmail.com