DECKER LAKE

DECKER LAKE

Is a settlement located 8 kilometers northwest of Burns Lake along Highway #16 (Yellowhead Highway), near the geographical center of British Columbia. It started out in 1913, when a post office was established to serve the gangs from the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and is named after a foreman from the Collins Overland Telegraph party that passed through here in 1866. During the mid-1920s, Sivert “Bull River Slim” Anderson, and 3 of his partners set up a substantial operational here that cut ties with the Canadian National Railway. Today Decker Lake is unincorporated, with tourism being the only benefactor for the economy.