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travel / travel magazine / mar09
PROVINCIAL PARKS
A walk in the park (page 2)
British Columbia
Bowron Lake Provincial Park
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Land o’ lakes
Today it’s a wilderness sanctuary and canoeing hotspot, but Bowron
Lake Provincial Park was once home to several First Nations
communities. During the gold rush of the 1860s, the area was a
mining mecca. With 116 kilometres of waterways and portages on the
western slope of the Cariboo Mountains, the Bowron Lake canoe
circuit is known worldwide. The area’s Kokanee salmon and bull,
rainbow and lake trout make fishing fun, and swimming is recommended
in the warm, stream-fed lakes of the Quesnel Highlands.
Alberta
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Art in the park
Get into the grove
Called Áísínai’pi in the Blackfoot language, Writing-on-Stone Provincial
Park in Alberta’s Milk
River valley is home to the most significant collection of aboriginal rock art on the North
American Great Plains. The 1,700-hectare park lies within the traditional territory of the Blackfoot First
Nation and was a sacred area for the Blackfoot and several other First Nations for some 3,500 years. The sandstone
cliffs, adorned by petroglyphs and pictographs, are thought to be a place where people reached
out to the spirit world to find their fortune and discern their future.
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