The McAbee fossil beds are known for their incredible abundance, diversity and quality of fossils including lovely plant, insect and fish species that lived in an old lake bed setting 52 million years ago.It is one of the best local sites in the province to experience a fossil dig first-hand.
The Interior Nations certainly have a long history of trying to meet and work out an equitable agreement with Canada, as illustrated in their prominent efforts to meet with government and to work on a resolution as the Memorial laid out to Sir Wilfrid Laurier and presented to him in Kamloops in 1910. Ken Favrholdt is a freelance writer, historical geographer and former curator/archivist of the Kamloops Museum and Archives and museum co-ordinator of the Secwépemc Museum and Heritage Park.