45 minutes south of Fernie, and just on the other side of the US/Canada border, you will find Eureka, Montana. Once upon a time, people would only know “Eureka” if I added the identifying “you drove through it on the way to Whitefish” (where everyone goes skiing.) (Or if coming from somewhere other than Canada, people might have an idea where it is if I added “It’s close to the Canadian border…North of Whitefish, which is north of Kalispell, which is in Montana, which is in the northern part of the United States, and no, we don’t all live in teepees, and yes, we have electricity there, and indoor plumbing.”) Although, to tell you the truth, when we first moved there, even further back, in the “once upon a time” story, we didn’t have electricity OR
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