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Demolition of Domke house, 1971

A colour photograph showing three people standing in front of a burning house. The house is still intact with orange flames coming out of the windows. Thick white and black smoke surrounds the house.

Arrow Lakes Historical Society photograph 2018.032.263.

Former home of Art Domke & Kay Domke being burned by BC Parks to clear the site for the new Blanket Creek Provincial Park south of the former community of Twelve Mile, on the west shore of the Arrow Lake reservoir, 1971. The property was expropriated from the Domkes in 1966 in advance of the flooding of the valley by Hugh Keenleyside Dam.