Bordertown Traditional Cache
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Another Pitt Meadows History Lesson ..............
An elaborate scheme in the 1800's had plans to dam the Pitt River and divert water flooding northern Pitt Meadows to Burrard Inlet. The hope was to create a system of canals to transport freight through the inlet to a unique upland area (now known as Codd Island) to land boats and barges.
Luckily this plan was never enacted. The island in front of you has been a homestead (for the Codd family in the early 1900's), a dry haven for Pitt Meadows cows during spring floods(when the dykes failed) and in the 1980's the location of a frontier western town.
On Codd Island, a TV miniseries called "Border Town" was fimed. Bordertown was a television western-drama series that aired from 1989 to 1991. It depicted the town formerly known as Pemmican that was later renamed Bordertown when the western border between the United States and Canada was surveyed in 1880, dividing the town.
The buildings were very detailed, built from logs, rough sawn lumber and real rock chimneys. The only telling feature was the open center of the buildings to accommodate lighting and camera angles.
In 2004 Ducks Unlimited, The Land Concervancy, the Province of BC, the City of Pitt Meadows and the Aqualini family (owners of the Vancouver Canucks and most of Pitt Meadows) banded together to create the Codd Island Wetlands Aqualini Concervancy Area, theororetically protecting the island and surrounding area from further development.
Today the town on the island is gone (a few buildings still stand on the east side of the marsh )and industrial agriculture and dump trucks press in on this unique area. Unfortunately, the only way to observe the area is through binoculars as you walk around the Pitt Meadows dykes on the south or if you are able paddle. Don't try to step ashore - public access is not allowed.
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