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Swimming in the Alouette River almost 100 years ago

Maple Ridge Museum offers historic scene of people swimming in the river
Neil Corbett
Neil Corbett
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This photo features young women enjoying a swim in the South Alouette River in 1912. (Ridge Meadows Museum P01058)

With a historic heat dome settling over Maple Ridge during the past week, bringing all-time record temperatures, many Maple Ridge residents got reacquianted with the Alouette River.

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The Maple Ridge Museum and Archives published a historic photo of a similar scene from Maple Ridge almost 100 years ago, with a group of young women and children in their full swimming costumes standing in the current.

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Neil Corbett

About the Author: Neil Corbett

I have been a journalist for more than 30 years, the past decade with the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News.
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