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A Monk's Home in a Cave

The town of Hedley never ceases to surprise me when it comes to oddities. For example they have an incredible ratio of one-eyed humans vs bi-eyed ballers. To find a cave that a Buddhist monk lived in for a decade or so checks out.  Much of what I know about this subject comes from the other blogs and videos that I suspect all derive from the same, likely one-eyed source. So take it for what it is. In the early 1900's when Camp Hedley was thriving and banging out as much as 42,000 tons/year of ore, and some side-product gold bars, additional water was needed to power the steam plant which provided electricity to the thriving Nickle Plate Mine. That water came from Hedley Creek, also known as McNulty Creek on many maps, and previously know as 20 Mile creek, as it's 20 miles from Keremeos, in the good old days, before...

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