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Winter Destination 2009 – The puck drops here

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 by GetawayBC.com

Hockey fans can find a “good ol’ hockey

game” in just about every corner of the South Cariboo.

Hockey games and tournaments can be found most weekends and almost every day of the week at the South

Cariboo Calling 2009 – Old pioneer cemetery: a family affair

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 by GetawayBC.com

In a ritual almost as old as the Roe Lake community itself, family and friends of those buried at Lakeview Cemetery gather in early May to tidy up and to place flowers on the old pioneer graves. The v

Cariboo Calling 2009 – Circle H Ranch from past to present

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 by GetawayBC.com

When Ann and Ernie Armann bought the beautiful Circle H Ranch at Lone Butte, they also secured a big piece of Cariboo history.

Both professional shepherds, the Armann’s met when they were herding she

Cariboo Calling 2009 – To the creature who whines sweet annoyance in my ears

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 by GetawayBC.com

What animal strikes fear and loathing in the heart of every human on the planet? What prompts us to spend hundreds of dollars every summer on netting, screens, bug repellent, bug zappers, toxic candle

Cariboo Calling 2009 – It’s a long way from Budapest

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 by GetawayBC.com

It’s a long way from wartime Budapest to the Cariboo, in more ways than one. Now, as they stand together overlooking Canim Lake, John and Elizabeth Sarkozy will tell you that as harrowing as the jour

Cariboo Calling 2009 – Cariboo memories

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 by GetawayBC.com

Cathy McLeod

Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP

Having grown up in Ontario my memories of a family trip through British Columbia at the age of 10 are especially vivid. The west had an intrigue and appea

Cariboo Calling 2009 – The Garden is a forgotten masterpiece

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 by GetawayBC.com

Just two old horses, Bugsy and Cheetah, are the lone occupants now laying claim to the nearly four acres of grassy field behind Cariboo Christian Life Fellowship (CCLF) that once looked remarkably lik

Cariboo Calling 2009 – Minnie, a true Cariboo gal

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 by GetawayBC.com

It’s often said the Cariboo was built on hard work, history and legend; and if any one person encompassed all of that, it was Minnie Scheepbouwer of Watch Lake.

Tough as nails from a long life of har

Cariboo Calling 2009 – Downtown Birch Avenue

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 by GetawayBC.com

Our Downtown Birch Avenue is home to some of the best shopping in the district, as well as the setting for some fun events.

Many of the shops on the strip are one-of-a-kind boutiques and are worth ta

Cariboo Calling 2009 – A ride to remember

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 by GetawayBC.com

Jane Trask

Are you interested in horse camping, meeting new people and possibly making life-long friends and exploring the great outdoors the way it should be done – on the back of a good saddlehor