Words & photos : Owen Perry http :// owenperry . ca Photography : http :// circa1983 . ca
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A CANADIAN
ODYSSEY
Located about an eight-hour drive north of Vancouver , one of the world ' s most exceptional canoe circuits . Bowron Lake Provincial Park , named after mid-1800s BC Gold Commissioner John Bowron , has a rich history dating back thousands of years with the Carrier , Shuswap and Iroquois First Nations . More recently , the town of Barkerville , once the largest population centre north of San Francisco , was famous for the Cariboo Gold Rush in 1862 . Stories of exploration , hunting , fishing and gold panning run deep through this part of British Columbia . It is remote . It is wild . It is a setting fit for an odyssey .
Words & photos : Owen Perry http :// owenperry . ca Photography : http :// circa1983 . ca
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