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happened in their backyard. The railway's track-grade is still extant through the community, and the portion of it along
Hayward Lake is now a walking trail; some of its trestles still stand in ruins, partly demolished to keep people from climbing on them. The trail is part of a 10 km (6.2 mi) circuit around the lake which returns to Ruskin Dam on the east side of the lake, which was built by prisoners from the correctional centres in Mission. The older rail grade, from before the dam was built, can also be discerned below Ruskin Dam, with tracks rising out of the water a mile or so below Stave Falls Dam.
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operating in 1912. Because their main market was in the United States and not the depressed local market. Stoltze went from strength to strength right from the start. The company owned tree-limits but could soon count on a continuous supply of cedar when
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in 1910, connected the CPR line at Ruskin with the construction site. The traffic generated by the activities around the Stave Falls dam convinced the CPR to approve the building of a rail station at Ruskin that same year – one of the many things by which the residents of Ruskin profited from what
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963:Tsawwassen
958:Swartz Bay
948:Silverdale
943:Saanichton
878:Cloverdale
848:Aldergrove
782:Chilliwack
773:Abbotsford
368:References
346:Stave Lake
318:Ruskin Dam
313:Ruskin Dam
97:49°12′00″N
1134:Thornhill
893:Dollarton
888:Deep Cove
873:Chemainus
330:Stave Dam
151:Vancouver
1119:Whonnock
1114:Yennadon
983:Winfield
978:Whonnock
973:Westbank
787:Kamloops
745:Villages
170:Whonnock
134:Province
883:Crofton
853:Ardmore
838:Agassiz
828:within
797:Nanaimo
777:Mission
174:Mission
125:Country
1139:Albion
1124:Ruskin
988:Yarrow
938:Ruskin
913:Ladner
903:Hatzic
843:Albion
710:Cities
295:School
147:Ruskin
128:Canada
75:Ruskin
43:Ruskin
31:Ruskin
1099:Haney
933:Oyama
740:Towns
355:The
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161:.
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1059:t
1052:v
775:–
644:e
637:t
630:v
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