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About 12 miles east of Spences Bridge on the Trans Canada Highway, a traveler can look across the river to a tiny church on a bench beneath a mountain whose face has been scarred by repeated rock slides. A wooden church on an isolated ranch, the wind blowing through the sagebrush, freezing in winter and scorching in summer--a typically powerful image from this part of British Columbia of puny humanity struggling against a hostile environment.
The abandoned church and ranch are only accessible by a 4x4 road through gated grazing land following the opposite side of the river from the highway. Evidently it was called Pokhaist Village, and the church is St. Aidan's. http://www.michaelkluckner.com/bcinterior.html
The abandoned church and ranch are only accessible by a 4x4 road through gated grazing land following the opposite side of the river from the highway. Evidently it was called Pokhaist Village, and the church is St. Aidan's. http://www.michaelkluckner.com/bcinterior.html
