Invermere resident Ray Crook submitted this photo that was taken in 1915. It is a picnic group of mostly Homesteaders gathered together at Macleod Meadows in what is now Kootenay National Park. At that time, the Province of B.C. had built a road from Radium up Sinclair Creek and over the Sinclair Pass. This was the start of what became the Banff-Windermere Highway. There are a few children in the group. Mr. Crooks four-year-old brother Charles is sitting in front of his mother Annie Crook. The other children may belong to Walter and Esther Nixon who had a Homestead at Kootenay Crossing. Mr. Crook recently turned 98  Happy (belated) Birthday! Photo courtesy of Ray Crook

Invermere resident Ray Crook submitted this photo that was taken in 1915. It is a picnic group of mostly Homesteaders gathered together at Macleod Meadows in what is now Kootenay National Park. At that time, the Province of B.C. had built a road from Radium up Sinclair Creek and over the Sinclair Pass. This was the start of what became the Banff-Windermere Highway. There are a few children in the group. Mr. Crooks four-year-old brother Charles is sitting in front of his mother Annie Crook. The other children may belong to Walter and Esther Nixon who had a Homestead at Kootenay Crossing. Mr. Crook recently turned 98 Happy (belated) Birthday! Photo courtesy of Ray Crook