I was 17 in the summer of 1954. With survey experience the previous summer, I was hired as chain-man—a step-up—for a party that was to locate a road for the BC Mines department. The Cassiar asbestos mine had opened a few years earlier, and a road to the nearest Canadian tidewater at Stewart was an urgent need to export the product. For a Vancouver boy, this was to be the adventure of a lifetime. But I had no foreshadowing that […]

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