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Columbia River and Mount Cartier Ukrainian Settlement, circa 1925

Black and white photograph showing a river bisecting the image, with high mountains on one side, and a valley with cultivated farms on the other.

Revelstoke Museum and Archives photograph 4588.

Hundreds of settlers from Ukraine came to Mount Cartier, south of Revelstoke, in the early 1900s and created thriving homesteads. They were forced off their farms in the late 1960s when the Hugh Keenleyside Dam reservoir flooded their homes.