little.....then big.

I have been thinking about where I am from alot these days.My partner just got some family names, new to us to research.
I myself know quite a bit about my heritage, and my early life which I have many memories of.

I was born in Clearwater BC on Round Top Boogie, the land my parents loved more than any. They named it this because of the huge round hill behing our barn shack, and yes we boogied!!!!

My Dad and his brother built a old barn into the sweetest home I have lived in. I knew both sides of my family, but it appeared my parents were the black sheep kids in their families, and I did not get to know everyone until much later...........fast forward
a bit. Living in Vancouver, left with a painter friend, ended up in Nelson BC after taking a wrong turn and going over a de-commisssioned forest service road that had a sign sayin gas in the next town, (this sign was more than likely from 60 -70 years ago so we dodged left. Anyway, after getting over this road (very symbolic) we get to this freekin pixie land river side France looking scene with a huge book, vitamins and wine. The book's front page wrote: Congratulations, You made it now celebrate your life!. Indeed we did and rolled into my new home of Nelson BC the next morning. I did not know my connection to this place, let alone even really like this place. I meet my match (my now husband) end up shacking up, call my grandma one day whom as I mentioned before I did not really stay in contact with. At this time Mark my husband and I were living in the last wild west town their is, the town of YMIR BC (where we later got married in a lawless turn of the century wedding in the old church and stayed in the last standing whore house!!! ) This is a town of about 150 people at large.
I told Joan my grandma and she flipped. Her great-grand- daddy came from Seville Spain and settled in YMIR BC. Well holy shit. Not only did they settle but the owned the biggest mines in the west at that time and helped build Ymir and Nelson
I am 5th generation Kootanay and had no idea!!! Somehow we got here and somehow I have been here 8 years.....
I found the Love of my life here, I found my blood, My DNA, my roots before Round Top Boogie, before Ken and Becky made me, before the 60's when my parents cracked open the norm and for a brief moment changed the paradigm of reality
So to this day, I walk past buildings that were built by my family, somedays, I go down to whats left of the what used to be bustling railway station and imagine what it looked like when the arrived. Canoes along the shore from local Sinixt natives. They burned the whole perimeter of the their new town, and there was a lovely paddleboat going up and down the lake daily
These pictures are from my Dad. I especially love the outfit number here!! Oh bieng 10 in 1990!!!