Red Pass

This is Red Pass, near the B.C. - Alberta border. We saw it on the map and stopped to see if we could get a bite to eat. Fine if you like eating wildflowers at this Canadian National Railroad whistle stop!

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Wayne Tocheniuk offered the following memories:

I spent the first 12 years of my life in Red Pass. Our house stood not far from where you took your photo and I used to fish at the small warf that was below the Red Pass sign.

When I was young there was a store at the bottom of the road, a school an the top of the hill on the highway, and a small community hall. There was also a hobo camp situated on the other side of the trestle going the other direction. This would be from 1961 to 1972. Red pass had only railway workers living in it except the game warden and his family that lived in the house on the top of the road in. They lived in the old police station, I remember the cells in the basement.

The store used to sell gas on the river for small airplanes and I remember them roaring past behind our house not many feet away.

Well I could go on and on but that will give you a bit of info.

— Wayne