Marjorie M. Selody’s Meeting of the Winds: A History of Falkland provides a comprehensive local history of the upper Salmon River valley, drawing its title from the traditional Secwépemc designation Slahaltkan. The volume documents the arrival of early Euro-American cattle ranchers, homesteaders, and loggers who established agrarian holdings along the river bottomlands and sweeping benches of Yankee Flats and Glenemma. Selody details the industrial growth of Falkland following the discovery of high-grade gypsum deposits in the early twentieth century and the construction of the Canadian National Railway branch line, which connected local quarries and timber mills to regional markets. Through extensive settler genealogies, land grant records, and oral interviews, the work captures the shared agricultural and commercial development linking Falkland to neighboring rural valleys in Silver Creek and Deep Creek.

British Columbia Falkland, British Columbia Salmon River Valley, Deep Creek (B.C.), Falkland (B.C.) History, Glenemma (B.C.), Gypsum mines and mining British Columbia Falkland History, History, Silver Creek (B.C.), Yankee Flats (B.C.) History

Published by the Falkland Historical Society. Includes index and family genealogies.

Published by the Falkland Historical Society. Includes index and family genealogies.