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Instamatic periods of the 1940s and_ that is an obstacle to the annual fishing site on the Fraser above its 1960s. Then, finally, common folk migration of salmon—an abundant mouth, and there are numerous could have a simple camera with food source. drying racks scattered around the them to take photos when they were Did this salmon shelf cause the banks of the river canyon around it. on long camping trips and hikes in downfall of our unfortunate remote mountain areas. sasquatch, shot by a trapper in the Piecing Together the Picture This is one of the great hopes of employ of the Hudson's Bay We now have the final scene of the the current digital photo revolution, Company? According to the tragic Bigfoot in our photograph. He especially because cameras (even information on Lillooet, this natural had come to Lillooet (Lilliott as video cameras) are now part of most shelf along the riverbed is an_ spelled on the back of the photo) to mobile phones that are in the important salmon station on the get some salmon, which was known possession of more and more people Fraser—Bridge—Yalakom rivers. to be plentiful at this spot. Native every day. In theory, the Americans had lived in the sheer number of camera area for thousands of years cellphones in use today and knew not to bother the should result in more sasquatch that came to this Bigfoot, ghost and area of plenty. But this poor anomalous photos being beast was shot and killed by snapped than ever before. Europeans, now penetrating the area for the Hudson's Bay Company, shocked by what they'd found. They took a photograph of it. Then someone in the company ordered the photograph suppressed. At some point, Mr Haliday decided to get a copy of the photo that he was part of and knew existed. He probably didn't need to break into the building to steal the Bigfoot photo(s). He was apparently an employee who walked into the building as he typically did, and then went to the files he town mentioned as and stole one photo and took Lilliott. : A photograph of Bigfoot, claimed to have been taken photographs of the rest. Lillooet is apparently one jn the Pacific Northwest region of North America in Having a camera to carry and of the oldest towns in North the 1940s by Joseph Roberts. (Source: David Hatcher take photos of documents, America. It is so old that its Childress, Yetis, Sasquatch & Hairy Giants, Adventures like photographs in a file, age is not known. It is Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois, 2010) would be unusual at this time, considered to be one of the but certainly could have been oldest continuously inhabited — This rock shelf, known in gold-rush done. This makes the idea that locations in North America, reckoned times as the Lower Fountain, was Haliday was the © original by archaeologists to have been reputedly made by the trickster photographer appear even more inhabited for several thousand years. Coyote's leaping back and forth _ likely. The town attracted large seasonal across the river to create platforms We don't know when this photo was and permanent populations of native from which people could catch fish. stolen. I'm assuming that it was peoples because of the confluence of This location, named Sat’ or Setl in within some 20 years of its being several main streams with the Fraser, the native language and known as_ taken, but perhaps it is from some and also because of a rock shelf just Bridge River Rapids or Six Mile above the confluence of Bridge River Rapids in English, is the busiest Continued on page 83 An Ancient Fishing Site What of this location in British Columbia? When I searched the Internet for Yalikom River, as written on he back of the photo, what I ound was the Yalakom River, which is a tributary of the Bridge River, which is a principal tributary of the Fraser River, a major part of Rupert's Land territory. Plus, was able to find out that the Yalakom River enters the Bridge River near the town of Lillooet, which is presumably fishing site on the Fraser above its mouth, and there are numerous drying racks scattered around the banks of the river canyon around it. This rock shelf, known in gold-rush times as the Lower Fountain, was reputedly made by the trickster Coyote's leaping back and forth across the river to create platforms from which people could catch fish. This location, named Sat’ or Set! in the native language and known as Bridge River Rapids or Six Mile Rapids in English, is the busiest NEXUS ¢ 69 Continued on page 83 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com