Windermere Townsite, Windermere District, Windermere Lake
“Windermere [was] a magnet for land speculation by government officials.”
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Tag Archives: William Adolph Baillie Grohman
Hardie
Hardie Creek (flowing into Columbia Lake); Hardie Creek Road
A veritable parade of Hardie siblings lived in and/or visited the Windermere Valley from the mid 1880s into the early 1900s.
Duchess
Duchess Peak (West of the head of Findlay Creek in the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy)
The first Duchess was sixty feet long with cabin accommodation for eight and an ability to carry forty tons of freight. She was flat bottomed, and could “get along… where there was a heavy dew, or if the ground was a little damp.”
Baillie Grohman
Baillie Grohman Avenue (Canal Flats)
After the canal flats project failed to succeed, the entire venture was titled as “The Grohman Canal Swindle” and Baillie Grohman himself was shouldered with much of the blame for it.
In The Windermere 