Discover the Boundary Country. All the coins have been claimed.
All caches placed with permission where required. As always when out in the forests (as some caches will be placed on trails) please watch for wild animals such as Bears, Snakes, and Cougars. Have fun, and enjoy all the Boundary Country has to offer! ☺️
The CPR station at Grand Forks has been designated a heritage railway station because of its historical significance, aesthetic quality and importance in the community. The former Columbia and Western Railway station at Grand Forks, later owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), was constructed in 1900. At the time it was built, the community of Grand Forks was expanding into a robust distribution and refining centre for Boundary District ore and agricultural produce. The station symbolizes the strategic position of Grand Forks within the Boundary District, the intense rivalry between competing rail lines to obtain the district’s mining business, and the importance of rail transportation to the development of a mining industry in British Columbia's southern interior at the turn of the century. The station is a modest but attractive frame building with decorative "Swiss Chalet" elements, a style common among Columbia and Western stations of the Boundary District in the early 1900s. Grand Forks station is one of the few remaining examples. The heritage character of the Grand Forks station resides in those features which relate to its original design - on the exterior its simple form, roof shape and finish materials and on the interior remnants of original layout and finish. The heritage value also lies in the visual relationship between the station and its setting. Source: : · Heritage Character Statement, Grand Forks Canadian Pacific Railway Station, 16 January 1992. Heritage Assessment Report RSR-49, 1991.