The Cave of Crystals

For years in a previous lifetime I spelunked on weekends. 

In other words, I and friends explored caves, small, large, often wet and dirty, but sometimes spectacular. 

Which probably accounts for my particular interest is this legend of a lost cave as told by Rev. W.H. Collison, one of B.C.’s legendary missionaries among coastal First Nations. He tells the story in his fascinating memoir, In the Wake of the War Canoe (edited and annotated by Charles Lillard).

I’ll pass it on to BC Chronicles readers next week.

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PHOTO:  Horne Lake’s Riverbend Cave is so spectacular it’s now a provincial park. —Author’s Collection