{"id":988,"date":"2011-02-20T02:19:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T10:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=988"},"modified":"2011-02-20T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T17:49:08","slug":"ft-shepherd-cairn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"Fort Shepherd cairn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may be one of only two people alive today to have attended the dedication of the cairn at Fort Shepherd some sixty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of the event by a feature\u00a0Greg Nesteroff wrote for the <em>Nelson Star<\/em> (Feb. 18, 2011 pp 14,15) entitled Six Unusual Monuments, one being the cairn at Fort Shepherd. Erected in 1951 on the site of the sometime Hudson\u2019s Bay Fort (used on again, off again from 1859 to 1870) the monument has now lost its plaque, but that may soon be restored.<\/p>\n<p>As I remember the day, there were very few people who ventured along a rough road down the Columbia River from Trail. I believe that my brother and I were the only children present. I was armed with my Brownie box camera and took the pictures, below. The first picture was taken before the dedication and shows the cairn draped with the Canadian Red Ensign. I believe that the man on the left is Trail\u2019s mayor. The second picture was taken after the dedication and shows the plaque, a Union Jack fastened to a tree, a member of the R.C.M.P., and again the mayor (this time with a cane).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-989\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fortshepherd1951as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-990\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fortshepherd1951bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may be one of only two people alive today to have attended the dedication of the cairn at Fort Shepherd some sixty years ago. I was reminded of the event by a feature\u00a0Greg Nesteroff wrote for the Nelson Star &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=988\">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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}