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Early promoters of Strathcona Provincial Park as tourist mecca had a big problem: access

Buttle Lake in Strathcona Provincial Park. Will J. Reid family collection A Canadian Pacific floatplane at the dock at Buttle Lake for a chartered trip. Will J. Reid family collection The landscape after logging at the edge of Buttle Lake in the late 1930s. Credit: Will J. Reid family collection Picnickers on the flats near Myra Falls. Credit: Will J. Reid family collection Elk River Timber train tracks at Buttle Narrows. Credit: Will J. Reid family collection Author Catherine Gilbert. Book cover: A Journey Back to Nature, A history of Strathcona Provincial Park, by Catherine Marie Gilbert Strathcona Provincial Park, ­established in 1911, has not always been the serene and majestic ­wilderness area it is known as today. Current visitors might not be aware that mining and logging still took place in the park well into the 1980s.

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