This is Brookmere, there are still a lot of residences here. The house shown in the pictures was the residence of Harry Fontaine and was a museum. Harry Fontaine passed away a few years ago and his collection of Railroad equipment disappeared shortly thereafter. Until recently I had thought this to be the original KVR station, although it bore little resemblence to the GNR stations found elsewhere. It turns out that the original station burned down many years ago. Thanks to Don McKay for setting the record straight. The watertower is the last surviving water tower on the Kettle Valley Railroad. It has been moved off of its foundations on to private property. This is a really nice place to visit even though most of the railroad related equipment near the house in the picture seems to have disappeared . It seems that almost everytime I visited here, it rained. The watertower picture actually took three trips to get one without rain!

The disappearance of the equipment and the complete destruction of Kingsvale just down the hill from Brookmere is another example of how our heritage and the history of the Kettle Valley Railroad and the CPR in BC is being slowly lost over time. Since starting my travels on the KVR back in the late 90's, much has disappeared, fallen into rivers, or been destroyed by vandals.

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