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Established as a provincial part on May 2, 1974,on the stolen land of the Secwépemc Nation (pronounced suh-Wep-muhc), now more than half clear-cut, Pennask Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia, has been utterly dessimated. It's telling industrially named address: Sunset Main Forest Service Rd, Douglas Lake, obfuscates and denies the ancestral reverence for the once-bountiful lake and surrounding lands of the Secwépemc Nation (suh-Wep-muhc). The ongoing dessimation of their lands and the details of how it was colonized is important to disseminate, as the infuriating details, written by Tourism BC and in the excerpts from Fly-fishing and Colonialism at a British Columbia Lake by J. Micheal Thoms below illustrate.



The official tourism description boasts: "Pennask Lake is a high elevation lake that has multiple spring creeks flowing into it".

The reference that I found in the UBC library is a paper written by J. Micheal Thoms (date unknown).
Here are excerpts from that paper.(entitled A PLACE CALLED PENNASK: Fly-fishing and Colonialism at a British Columbia Lakefind the link below)
"In 1929 James Drummond Dole, the founder of the Hawaiian pineapple industry, turned the lake into a private fishing preserve for an elite fly-fishing club composed of wealthy American industrialists, a US navy commander, University of British Columbia (UBC) professors, a chair of the International Fisheries Commission, and a BC game commissioner. Guests at the lake have included Queen Elizabeth the Second and the famous fishing writer and judge Roderick Haig-Brown.""1 he continues: (Pennask Lake,) "was traditional fishery for twelve Aboriginal communities (Nicola Valley, Similkameen, Okanagan, Thompson, Upper and Lower Nicola, Douglas Lake, North Bend, Lillooet, Shacken, and Shuswap) that intensively fished its inlet and outlet, as well as adjacent Nevue Lake, for rainbow trout. In the spring of 1928, a year before Dole expropriated the fisheries, over 430 Aboriginal fishers visited the lakes and caught 45,000 trout. Aboriginal fishers had long organized the lake into a series of defined and controlled fishing places. ""2 1 & 2: excerpts from A PLACE CALLED PENNASK: Fly-fishing and Colonialism at a British Columbia Lake by J. MICHAEL THOMS for the Cited article, download from UBC Library here , for the full article please visit here "