Epoxy

Christina Lake

Boundary Country, British Columbia, Canada

Also known as Grand Forks, Boundary Country

Cascade City, at the south end of Christina Lake, had about a thousand people and a dozen hotels in the late 1890s. It burned twice.

The town went up on the Kettle River, where the Cascade Water, Power and Light Company began a dam in 1898. The powerhouse was to run Grand Forks, Phoenix and Greenwood, along with the mines and smelters between them. Two railways were coming through at the same time.

The first fire came on 30 September 1899. The second, in the summer of 1901, left one store and one hotel standing. The town had a newspaper of its own, the Cascade Record.

Christina Lake the village sits at the south end now, on the highway. Cascade City is gone, and the falls and the gorge it was built beside are what people stop for.

Details

Feature: Lake
Build: Epoxy
Material: Solid Walnut
Colour: Caribbean Blue
Size: 10-1/2" x 16"
Completed: March 2025

Shop this Style $350.00 CAD

Detail of the Christina Lake map by Keyway

How this one was made

Three colours on this one. The lake is not wall to wall, so its dam follows the waterline about half an inch out and the flood runs along the shore, which keeps the epoxy where it is wanted and holds the staining exposure to a narrow band. The white and the black each take dams of their own, the type, compass and pin in white and the single line around the border in black. That border line is the fussy part, a thin channel running the full perimeter with nothing but its own width to hold the pour, and Christina is long and narrow with a shoreline that stays busy the whole way down.