What Top Five Places To Live In Canada
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Big City..............Calgary
Small town............Grand Forks
Vernon
Penticton
Princeton
I worked up there for a while when I was younger, had a great bar scene. :smile:
I know a lot of people bad mouth Princeton, but for some reason I can't put a finger on I've always been attracted to Princeton. A year ago we had a problem with the brakes on our 5th wheel just before starting the climb up Whipsaw Hill and had to turn around and spend the night in Princeton. The next morning I found a shop that said they could deal with the problem right away and for half an hour all three employees worked on it to fix it and never charged me a dime. I don't know whether it was just a self fulfilling prophesy but that's been my impression of Princeton people over the years. Just so friendly and helpful. The terrain and climate aren't bad either. You have to love the Similkameen River.
I suure do and Princeton too. I've pulled nice colour from where the river ran 8,000 years ago. It's about 15M up the present bank. I've just never had the time to return, but when I do it will be quite profitable.
I'm not bad mouthing Princeton JLM. Quite the opposite actually. It used to be a clean bustling little town. It's kind of grubby now but while the people change they do remain friendly. The Similkameen river is a great little river and so is the Tulameen. You are right Petros - lots of good fishing there - especially around Bromley Rock just outside of Princeton.
My "family" owned land 7 miles out of Princeton which was sold some years ago. The mineral rights belonged to the family and when the land sold, the family maintained the mineral rights.
Thanks for setting me straight VanIsle- I must be getting really senile, I took his post to relate to panning for gold. There is a nice little campsite right at Bromley Rock.
I think one of the biggest drawbacks of Princeton is winter temperatures, it is generally about the same temperature in winter as Prince George- never could understand the reason. I guess there's one more now, very few doctors left in town, they've all retired with the exception of about one, so I doubt if it will be attracting seniors.
No no - that's totally wrong. I've lived in Prince George. Temps. there were -40C with a wind chill of -65C. The coldest I ever saw in Princeton was 20 below Fahrenheit. Those were the rare days I got to stay home from school because my Dad said it was too cold for me to be outside even though I lived less than a 5 min. walk from the school. There are about 2500 people living there and it's always been around that other than when the mine was open. For the most part, we only had one doctor. One stayed from the day he arrived in town until the day he died. The rest stayed for a couple of years and moved on.:smile:
I just checked some weather stats for Princeton. Dec. 29 and 30 1968, the temp was minus 42C and minus 43C respectively. I lived in Hedley for a short period okne winter and Princeton was always much colder than Hedley.
Well, I was gone from there at that time but I sure don't remember my Mom mentioning any cold like that. It must have been an extremely unusual year. Hedley is closer to Keremeos and that whole little valley is warmer. That's why fruit grows so well there.
JLM, I have searched all over google and for Princeton, BC, Canada, I cannot find a temperature that cold ever. Would you mind sending me the site as temps. that cold there just seem completely impossible to me. 40 C and 40 F are the same and 40 below in Princeton is way off course from anything I know. I only left in 67 and I was only about 60 miles away. This is way off topic so you should pm me.:smile: