In 1962, Monashee Provincial Park, east of Lumby and home to Spectrum Lake, Margie Lake, Bill Fraser Lake, Little Peters Lake and Peters Lake was established as a wilderness park. It had taken 42 years for the founders of the park – Bill Fraser, Doug Kermode, George Falconer, C.D. Osborne, Michael Freeman and Sid Draper to convince the government, hunters, trappers and loggers to set aside the 22,722 hectares that would eventually become a Class A park. But it was Ernie Laviolette who captured the images of the park that would spark public curiosity and passion for the area through his film “The Call of the Monashee”. Ernie and others, including Eugene and Charlie Foisy would later form “Friends of the Monashee” to ensure the vision of the original park founders was preserved.
