(090) Collins Bros' home

Excerpt from page 32 of "B.C.'s Inland Empire" by Erskine Burnett associated with this image: The shoreline of Shuswap Lake and its arms, including Salmon Arm, is about 550 miles in length and the difference between extreme high-water and low water is about 14 feet. In a straight line the distance between Sicamous and Seymour Arm town site is 36 miles, but, after zigzagging across to the various settlements, we travelled a good deal further than that. Before reaching the head of the Arm We stopped at Capt. Smith's place on the west side. The snowfall is heavier up here and he uses his cabin as a stopping place when taking the mail up on the ice. At the head of the Arm are several hundred acres of fairly level land and about 1912 part of this was cleared and a town site laid out but comparatively few settlers arrived. The Collins Brothers are among the oldest settlers here and one of them showed us over their well-built home and most attractive flower garden and lawn and a very productive vegetable garden. Capt. Smith kindly allowed us time to visit the Collins place which is about half a mile back from the beach. The old trail to the Big Bend started near the Collin place. Near the lake it is grown over but further on is still visible. Perhaps some day this district will be opened up again