(040) Squilax bridge

Excerpt from page 19 of "B.C.'s Inland Empire" by Erskine Burnett associated with this image: To reach Adams Lake you cross Little River at Squilax. Before this bridge was build it was necessary to hire someone to ferry you across or else to cross at Sorrento and come west again to the Adams Lake road. (To continue east from Squilax please turn to #54). Here is a quite imposing bridge. Whatever the old structures may have been like there is nothing ramshackle about these newer bridges, some of them in quire sparsely settled country. The re-location of the Trans Canada Highway passes under the approach to this bridge. The road now passes through Indian lands. The first thought that comes to one is, -why all this undeveloped level country with so much water available in Adams River and Lake. Under irrigation it could be turned into a Garden of Eden. But the ways of the Indian are not those of the white man. A short distance north of the bridge the road forks. The left turn takes you up Adams Lake, mostly through timbered country. For several miles south of the lake the road skirts Adams River and at certain seasons of the year both river and lake are frequented by fishermen. It was here that we once ran across a bottle of Best Procurable, with a wee droppie still in it. If one of the fishing trout had been permitted to sample it he would probably never have been landed. It was carefully cached above high water