There is a chillness in this land,
that can grip you like a band
and freeze the very blood

that’s in your veins.

And if you’ve never yet been wet,
what a shock you’re going to get,
if you are near bere

when the blue sky rains.

— B.C. —

It’s the land where tall trees grow,
where mighty wind can blow

and the winters can be cruel

and deathly cold.

Where the mountains tower high,
sole invaders of the sky,

leering down upon us bere,

trying to be bold.

With the winter coming on,

all intelligent beings are gone,
all, except the mosquitoes

have gone away.

But we face the winters best,
and if we should survive its test,
until the coming of the spring

it’s bere we'll stay.

Written by trainee G. R., Chilliwack Forest Camp"

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Clearwater silviculture/ harvesting in the snow (1950s) Corrections Branch Archives

11 The Slesse News, Sept. 1965, in B.C. Corrections Association Journal, The Courier, October 1965. Reprinted with
acknowledgment to the officer-in-charge, Chilliwack Forest Camps.

76 Corrections in British Columbia