The summer is flying by - I've been camping, reading, beaching, writing, working -
Lake Diefenbaker was created by damming the South Saskatchewan River - construction of the Gardiner Dam started in 1959 and the lake was filled in 1967. My reading while there, very appropriately - The Town that Drowned by Riel Nason, a novel (it just won the Commonwealth Book Prize Canada and Europe) about a town in New Brunswick that was 'drowned' by the creation of a dam in Canada's Centennial year also. It was a great read and I'm more curious than ever about both Lake Diefenbaker and New Brunswick's St. John River valley and Mactaquac Dam.
Lake Diefenbaker, Saskatchewan
Mactaquac Dam, New Brunswick
2 comments:
Thanks for the post Anne. Interesting parallel with the timing of the flooding being the same. So glad to hear you enjoyed the book. :-)
It was really enjoyable Riel. It is interesting - funny sort of Centennial projects aren't they? I was just in Yellowknife where we were able to tour the abandoned townsite of the Giant mine ... some interesting parallels there too. I plan to post something on that yet too!
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