I think I know....but

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This photo is of some of the construction of the Sumas Lake drainage project that took place in the 1920s.......I am guessing this is at the location of the Sumas River pumping station......and the buildings are probably the Barrowtown that is talked about but nobody knows exactly where it is........by the look of the mountains, river, etc......... but I may be wrong....any body have any ideas....


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Before 1920 there was a huge shallow tidal lake that took up the flats between the Vedder Mountain of the south Fraser Valley and Sumas Mountain at the north .....The lake stretched from Chilliwack to Abbotsford. It must have been a waterfowl paradise...and mosquitoes* ** * ***lots of em* **..........an energetic canal digging program was undertaken in 1920 ...the Vedder River was contained and Sumas lake was pumped dry by 1924 .....the rich land reclaimed for farming..... also most routes to the coast were moved to the flats instead of the mountains. The lake stretched from Chilliwack to Abbotsford.