Frances Decker, Margaret Fougberg, and Mary Ronayne’s Pemberton: History of a Settlement provides the definitive local and agricultural chronicle of the Pemberton Valley and upper Lillooet River watershed. The volume details how ancestral Lil'wat Nation settlements, hunting networks, and salmon fisheries centered around Mount Currie were entered by 1858 gold seekers blazing the Douglas Trail to the Cariboo. The authors trace the arrival of pioneer farm families who diked flood-prone alluvial bottomlands to establish world-renowned seed potato ranches across Pemberton Meadows, Owl Creek, and Birken. The text documents the construction of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, early logging flumes, and major drainage engineering works, chronicling the social, commercial, and educational institutions that built the Village of Pemberton and linked the agricultural basin to D'Arcy and Gates.

Birken (B.C.), British Columbia Pemberton Valley, D'Arcy (B.C.), Frontier and pioneer life British Columbia Pemberton Valley, Gates (B.C.), History, Lil'wat Nation, Mount Currie (B.C.), Owl Creek (B.C.), Pemberton (B.C.) History, Pemberton Meadows (B.C.), Village of Pemberton

Published by Pemberton Pioneer Women. Revised edition incorporating valley family genealogies and municipal records.

Published by Pemberton Pioneer Women. Revised edition incorporating valley family genealogies and municipal records.