Lajoie Lake
"Little Gun" is the site of the Little Gun Lake Lodge, a custom-built log-cabin mansion built by William G. "Big Bill" Davidson, who also built Minto City, to host investors and VIPs visiting the Bralorne-Pioneer Mines about ten miles south of Gold Bridge. To serve the lodge floatplanes were landed on the lake, and a helicopter pad was also built on the lodge's property, which is the largest private land-holding on the lake and includes the lake itself. It was from Lajoie Lake that mine promoter David Sloan, namesake of the Matterhorn-like Mount Sloan, which overlooks the lake from the other side of the Bridge River to its south, took off on his last flight, dying in a plane crash at Alta Lake (now in the resort of Whistler).
The lodge was for some time operated as a private boutique-hotel but is now a private residence. In addition to the lodge there are a number of other recreational properties around the lake. As a community it has a full-time population in the range of 30.
See also
References
- "Lajoie Lake". BC Geographical Names.
- Short Portage to Lillooet, Irene Edwards, self-publ., Lillooet BC, 1976
- Bridge River Gold, Emma de Hulla and Irene Cunningham, self-publ.