{"id":897,"date":"2011-02-05T08:29:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T16:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=897"},"modified":"2011-07-06T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:57:50","slug":"mcdonald%e2%80%99s-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_898\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-898\" class=\"size-full wp-image-898\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mcdonaldsimg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dock at McDonald&#39;s Landing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1894, Duncan A. McDonald filed a pre\u2013emption for some land at Six Mile on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake. The landing named for him is located near the east end of Lower Six Mile Road. It is one of the few along the lakeshore which was built and maintained by the government (another one, now long gone, was Fraser\u2019s Landing).<\/p>\n<p>I have used McDonald\u2019s Landing many times starting in the 1940s when I would travel from it to Camp Koolaree. The landing has remained under the control of Fisheries and Oceans until, apparently, this year at which time it will come under the local control of the RDCK.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-901\" title=\"mcdonaldsstory110201\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mcdonaldsstory110201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"293\" \/>I read of the pending transfer in a story in <a href=\"http:\/\/thenelsondaily.com\/news\/general\/piece-valuable-history-lands-rdcks-lap-9526\">The Nelson Daily<\/a>, that at the time of this posting, began its story as illustrated to the right.<\/p>\n<p>The story contains two distinctly odd features.\u00a0First, it includes an aerial view of Balfour but incongruously implies that it is the Landing (which is not visible in the picture and many kilometres away). Second, the story goes on to discuss someplace called Camp Coolery (since the original posting, this has been corrected).<\/p>\n<p>All in all, not one of the editor\u2019s better days.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I have been unable to learn the proper spelling of the landing. I have seen the <em>mac<\/em> with and without an\u00a0<em>a<\/em>, and the <em>s<\/em> with and without an apostrophe. With any luck, the RDCK will standardize it, preferably without the <em>a<\/em> and with the apostrophe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1894, Duncan A. McDonald filed a pre\u2013emption for some land at Six Mile on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake. The landing named for him is located near the east end of Lower Six Mile Road. It is one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=897\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}