Photographs have a wonderful power to uncover long-buried memories. While scanning the Bulkley Valley Museum’s portal I stumbled across a photo of the Smithers CNR train station that triggered an instant flashback. It’s where I stepped off the train in 1974 for my first broadcasting job as a frizzy-haired 19-year-old from Ontario toting one blue trunk and a guitar. I’d watched the Canadian landscape unfold from my seat thanks to a ticket purchased by my grandparents. Although my time in Smithers was brief —just six months—the
