Our Golden Wedding Anniversary Gift: A Trip To Williams Lake

It’s a small world. Just back from BC and we visited the Williams Lake area while on our tour paid for as one of our golden wedding anniversary gifts from our family.

There’s not much at Williams Lake other than the golf and tennis club and a few houses to the west of the lake. Whether the Secwepemc people should have rights to the land is not for me to answer, but I do question what they would do with the land if they had it. I doubt the land would support many people living off it, so maybe the people would develop the area as a tourist spot, much as it is now. The time we spent in the area and in that part of the world was most pleasant and a golden wedding anniversary gift that was much appreciated.

I think the lesson here is that life moves on. We can’t turn the clock back just because a collection of people had rights well over a century ago. Life today is more about making sure the poor and weak are looked after and don’t have to fend for themselves. That, to me, is what we mean by strength in unity.