It's often said the Cariboo was built on hard work, history and legend; and if any one person encompassed all of that, it was Minnie Scheepbouwer of Watch Lake.
Tough as nails from a long life of hard work and unimaginable challenges, Enid, as she was properly — but rarely — called, sharedmuch of it with her identical twin sister, Alice.
Alice
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