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Community of Glade, West Kootenays, BC

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Fall on the Kootenay River, picture from the Glade Ferry
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The debate is about these main points:
  • Our public right to water
  • Our public right to health
  • The control of our watershed and other water sources that our community depends on.  
  • The value that the forest adds to the health and welfare of all life is paramount and how we care for the elements of nature that provide us with these benefits should be foremost in our actions.
  • Water users are legally responsible for the associated costs and the quality of water. 
  • We have to act because there are no legal processes in place that protect our water. We have to act because no one else will act for us.


Glade Community History

PictureLooking south towards Castlegar from hills above Glade. 2016©HMcS
Glade ('Plodorodnoye' in Russian) was purchased in 1909 by Peter Lordly Verigin for a Doukhobor** settlement. Between 1911-1912, eleven villages for approximately 1200 people had been constructed.  Each village had 2 communal Doms, individual residences, a barn, bath house, and gardens.
Glade community had extensive orchards and farming, a  sawmill, a cemetery (still used today), a community hall, packing house, blacksmith shop, flour mill, linseed oil press, clover press for seed and a General Store across the river. Acres of vegetables, fruit and grain were grown. The fruit was taken to Brilliant for the jam factory. 
(excerpt from Glade Centennial Brochure, 2011)

Nowadays, the community is a diverse combination of Doukhobor and non-Doukhobor people. The community has changed from communal doms to residential properties that average 1.5 acres to 5 acres or more. There are still organic farms, hobby farms, livestock big and small and the number of horses are increasing.
There are no amenities, but there is a Community hall with children’s playground.  A quick ride over the ferry though and you can find what you want.

Although, in Glade, a person is just as likely to ask their neighbour if they need something. Need a hand moving something?  Help with a roof? Borrow a goat to eat some weeds? Eggs, fruit, bread? Need some traditional Russian noodles? Need a machine part made?  There are mill workers here, artists, gardeners, bee keepers, motorcycle enthusiasts, traditional and non traditional people, truck drivers, Celgar workers, people who work at Teck, people who weave and spin fibre, full time farmers, part time farmers, retired engineers, ferry operators, small businesses, chefs and lawyers, nurses, dog handlers, dog washers and dog walkers; Selkirk students and Selkirk teachers, retired people and young people, people who have come from ‘away’ and people who were born here —all sorts of people. And like every community, we live in community.     
 
Glade is not a well-known place - some folks have lived in the Kootenay area for forty years and have never been to Glade! But the folks who do come always visit again. If someone wants a quiet bicycle ride, or to put the kayak in the river, enjoy a hike through the woods, admire the waterfall, or a children's playground – Glade has all this.

The Skattebo Trail (south end) and the Ward Ferry Trail (north end) are popular walking and biking trails. The Nelson Friends of Parks and Trails has been granted funding to make the Ward Ferry Trail more accessible and safe for users. There is a beach at the north end of Glade, and there is a boat wharf at Campbell's Landing. The narrow, slow-driven roads are excellent for summer bicyclists and the river affords a beautiful surface for watercraft like canoes and kayaks. Skattebo Trail, Glade Road and Ward Ferry Trail are all part of the TransCanada Trail for this area.

**Doukhobors ('Spirit Wrestlers') are a pacifist group that fled persecution in Russia in 1895. War, they said, was incompatible with Christianity. On June 29, 1895, about 7000 Doukhobors destroyed all of their weapons in a decisive demonstration of pacifism – to kill another being is to kill God since the spirit of God dwells within that person.This stand against killing met with harsh repression by the Czarist State and Orthodox Church authorities.
Roughly 7,500 Doukhobors were invited to immigrate to Canada in 1899. Their agrarian communal society was a glowing tribute to their slogan 'Toil and Peaceful Life'. The sudden, violent death of their leader in 1924, the great economic depression as well as reversals in government policy based on a desire for assimilation made it difficult to maintain their high ideals communally and contributed to the collapse of their collective life style.
Today, Doukhobors actively maintain activities such as Sunday Prayer meetings, Russian language classes, various publications and Internet sites, youth activity groups and festivals, fund-raisers for worthy causes, special dinners and active participation in peace groups and other benevolent endeavors based on the theme of pacifism and harmonious interaction with the environment.                                                                              (excerpt from the http://doukhobor-museum.org/)


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Glade History

http://www.nelsonstar.com/community/glade-and-gilpin-doukhobor-communities-with-english-names/
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Glade was officially added to the CPR timetable on June 4, 1911 and was originally only on the north side of the river, while the Doukhobor settlement on the south side was called Dolina Plodorodnaya — meaning “fertile valley” — and later just Plodorodnoye.
The Russian name eventually fell by the wayside (although it’s included on a welcome sign erected a few years ago) and the community became better known as Glade — today the name usually refers to the south side of the river, although the Glade store is on the north side.
A post office was announced for Glade in 1942 but for some reason never opened. Glade remains a distinctive residential community by virtue of its cable ferry.

         Article & Photo:  by Greg Nesteroff, Sept 20, 2014. Nelson Star

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'Glade Ferry' crafted in wood by resident R. Bartlett

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Glade Ferry

Glade was originally accessed via a reaction ferry, but after the Brilliant Dam was built, there was insufficient current to use it.  For 11 years after the dam went in, the only access to Glade was by privately owned barge and tugboat or log raft, or row boat. In 1955 a cable ferry was installed and that has been the mode of transportation since.

The old cable ferry is seen here (right below) with a loaded logging truck on it. Besides the truck it can hold little else. It fit about 10 cars or one logging truck and a couple cars.  The Ministry of Transportation would not allow regular industrial traffic on this ferry.
In March of 2018 the government replaced our old ferry with a new one. In terms of size, it will fit one car more than the current one, but the Ministry of Transportation now allows industrial traffic, like logging trucks,  to use this one. The landings where vehicles access and disembark from the ferry are being redone in order that larger vehicles, trucks and trailers can more easily access the ferry during high and low water on the river.
Glade Ferry
Glade Ferry: 2010 © H. McIntyre
Logging truck on Glade Ferry 2015
2015 Glade Ferry with a logging truck on it (photo: HMcS)
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Looking to the new ferry from the old one. More pictures to come.
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Photo donated by ©J.Markin for Glade Centennial 2011 Brochure. Glade Ferry with Doms and orchards behind. c 1925

2011 Glade Centennial

In the summer of 2011, Glade celebrated it's centennial. The following article gives some more insight into the history of Glade.  See article here: http://www.nelsonstar.com/news/a-ferrytale-existence/
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The value that the forest adds to the health and welfare of all life is paramount and how we care for the elements of nature that provide us with these benefits should be foremost in our actions. This value is as important as or, or even more important than, economic gain, for without the forest ecosystems we cannot flourish. Water is the priority – our forests that produce that water is our priority. Water is life and without clean water, nothing can live.       
                                                                      Glade Watershed Protection Society,
Glade, Castlegar, West Kootenays, British Columbia, Canada
  • History
  • Watersheds
    • BC WATERSHEDS
    • Glade Community Water & Threat
    • Glade Creek Watershed
    • Watershed Reserves
  • Society Activities
    • Overview: Our Timeline
    • Section 29 & Interior Health Authority
    • Legal Attempts
    • Forest Practices Board Complaint
    • Eco-System Based Community Forest >
      • Restoration & Wildcrafting in the Forest
  • Forests & Wildlife
    • Importance of Forests
    • Almost no Protection for Water, Old Growth, Wildlife....
    • Grizzly habitat threatened
    • CARIBOU Beyond 'Threatened'
    • OLD GROWTH being Logged
  • Take ACTION!
    • How You can Help
    • Contact Us
    • PLEASE Donate!
  • Impacts & climate change
    • Community Questionnaire
    • Impacts from Logging & Road Building
    • Wildfire, Carbon & Beetles
    • Climate Change: the Kootenays and Glade
  • Timber Industry
    • Professional Reliance
    • Forestry Stats (CoFI)
    • Exporting Logs & Labour
  • Local Timber Industry
    • Interior Lumber Manufacturer's Association
    • Sustainable, Renewable resource?
    • Failing Forest Stewardship plans & Forest Practices Board
  • Proposed Logging in Glade
    • Who is Responsible?
    • Proposed Logging (Kalesnikoff - KLC)
    • KLC Updates
    • Proposed LOGGING (ATCO)
  • Links, News, Newsletter
    • Latest Press Release
    • Newsletter
    • In the NEWS
    • Publications & Links
  • Upcoming Events
    • Markets, etc...
    • Citizen's Climate Lobby Canada