W. and E. Bradley’s Historical Outline of Seymour Arm Area, 1860–1970 chronicles the dramatic boom-and-bust cycles that defined the isolated northern arm of Shuswap Lake. The narrative traces the frantic 1865–1866 Big Bend gold rush, when the tent settlement of Seymour City (Ogdenville) materialized almost overnight at the head of the lake as a major transshipment port connecting river steamers to overland mountain trails leading to French and Gold creeks on the Columbia River. The authors detail how this speculative rush was superimposed directly over the seasonal territory of the Secwépemc, followed by the town’s near-instantaneous desertion once placer deposits dwindled. The volume then traces the early twentieth-century revival of Seymour Arm through ambitious English fruit-ranching syndicates, remote tie-cutting operations, and off-grid lakeshore homesteading in areas extending toward Bastion Bay and Albas.

Albas (B.C.), Bastion Bay (B.C.), Big Bend Region (B.C.) Gold discoveries, British Columbia Seymour Arm, Frontier and pioneer life British Columbia Seymour Arm, Gold mines and mining British Columbia History, History, Local history, Seymour Arm (B.C.) History, Shuswap Lake (B.C.) History

Cover title. Revised edition updating the original 1970 centennial publication.

Cover title. Revised edition updating the original 1970 centennial publication.