HERITAGE CABIN RENTAL

SUMMER/FALL - Fee: $100/night, or discounted for longer rentals

Guided camping and hiking trips available most weekends - contact me.

The Heritage Cabin with writing/painting studio is suitable for a personal retreat or for access to out door recreational adventures. Available by the weekend or the week from July 25th to September 7th. Other times can be reserved by special arrangement.

The cabin has 1 double bed and 2 single beds. One bedroom, one painting or writing studio, living room, kitchen, laundry room, fenced in front and back yard. Pets are welcome.

SOME HISTORY

This cabin was built at the turn of the century when the European settlers were moving into this region along side the Thompson Indians. The Cook's Ferry Indian Band now represents the First Nations People of this area.

This building was the writing office of James Tait, the world renown ethnographer who appreciated the First Nations peoples, lived in their ways, supported their rights around land use and ownership, and wrote profusely about the local First Nation culture and customs.

The house was later used as the Stage Coach stop and sleep over for the Gold Trail stage coach, which ran up the Fraser and Thompson River Canyon.

As the railway came through, the house later became the office of the Station Master and still later, a sleep over for workmen and their companions who worked the rails and the market gardens and orchards. The linoleum is dented with the marks of high heels, tapped out by female inhabitants, conjuring up images of the comings and goings in a village railway town, in First Nations territory.

Currently, the house, while shingled on the outside in woodsy brown tones is enlivened inside with hues of gold and greens and blues, and reds, eclectically offering a Japanese style bathroom with walk in sit down shower, ideal for the leg weary hiker.

The decor is a mixed bag of restoration objects, local artists paintings, simplistic furniture, air tight wood heater, iron framed old fashioned single beds, leather rugs - all creating an uncluttered yet cozy affect.

Front and back yards are shaded from the desert sun, with flowers and fruit bearing trees, hammocks, fenced in with rough hewn wood planks, for privacy and frontier atmosphere.

An iron tub surrounded by hanging mosquito nets sits under the apricot tree and offers you the sensual luxury of out door hot bath tub soaks under the star lit night skies. A bon fire pit in the back yard tops off the out door experience for those who love the firelight in the dark. Backyard tenting is possible, facilitated by an outhouse and outdoor sink with hot and cold water.

The summer climate is often the hottest spot in Canada, sunny, and dry, with warm nights and periodic desert wind storms, dramatic and short lived.

Near by recreational facilities offer you world class white water rafting, (see www.kunsheen.com) plus local sole proprietors, hiking at all levels, biking, fishing, swimming, tubing and more. Experience our village life with visits to the cafe's, log cabin pub, and historic sights.

Also, Excellent vegetarian natural foods are served at the local heritage inn, along with a to-die-for bakery. see (www.garudainn.com).