Yes… I thought you’d like to get the full history…

@Marionville I especially love to know the history of folk music and the songs.

It was actuality filmed at Gormanstown Beach, Co Meath on the Irish Sea coast between Drogheda & Balbriggan.

Wow…we get around don’t we?

@Marionville Yup, for sure.

@Marionville I see now it's being rebuilt & getting a name change.....

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@Lilac-JadeCanada Good to hear the community is getting a new modern replacement school.

@Marionville McBride was the nearest inhabitaion to Dunster (as in Somerset) where I lived for ten years in the Rockies. The village was named after the serving premier, Sir Richard McBride.

@rogerbenham I’ve actually visited McBride…my husband Peter saw it on the map when we were driving from Cargary to Vancouver and we did a detour from our route to go see it. There was an Amish community nearby and we saw several of them in their horse drawn buggies. We had lunch there and took some pictures at McBride Post Office where we posted postcards to friends at home. It was a pretty nondescript town with nothing outstanding or memorable to remember it for. I think we found out it was a railway town, built because of the railway.

@Marionville You must have driven through here too, to get to Vancouver.
I think we used to call them Hutterites.

@Lilac-JadeCanada Ah…I’ve got an idea where you live then!

@Marionville Williams Lake is about mid province. McBride is a bit northeast of here.

@Marionville I guess you could have driven south through Valemont & Blue River instead.

@Lilac-JadeCanada I remember we came through Kamloops, stayed there and at Lake Louise, also Banff. I thought we also went to Prince George, but I don’t know if we did as it’s way too far to the north of Vancouver, so maybe it was another place with Prince in the name.

@Lilac-JadeCanada Actually, I’ve just looked at the map and we did go on to Prince George after we were in McBride and we did stay the night there. Is Kamloops fairly near where you live then, it was definitely on our route to Vancouver and then when we saw McBride wasn’t too far away we headed north and deviated from our original route.

@Marionville Kamloops is 4 hours southeast of us.

@Marionville This shows Williams Lake & Kamloops a bit better.

@Marionville 20 kms before you got to McBride the was a turning to Dunster on the left with the road crossing the river meeting a gravel road 3 miles on the other side. Gravel road went 10 miles NW to Raush Valley where I Iived and 21 miles SE through Croydon and Sheer to Tete Jaune Cache. I lived for ten years in Raush Valley.
To go to Prince George, which is 370 kms from Smithers along the Yellowhead (Tete Jaune) highway, after McBride you opted to keep going NW on the Yellowhead Highway. Had you retreated back to Tete Jaune you would have turned south and gone through Valemont & Blue River through to Kamloops . Kamloops is out of the way going South from Prince George.
Yes, McBride and Valemount are railway towns. The Robson Valley from north of Tete Jaune to north of McBride is a farming area and that is why I lived there.
There must have been a special occasion as in ten years I never remember seeing the horse drawn buggies. One third of the valley, mostly dairy farmers, were Mennonites (Pennsylvaia Dutch). Not nearly as strict as Hutterites. The men wore John Deare green farm clothers, then the women in cotton prints with head covering. Mind you, the Lutheran women covered their heads. One third Mennonites Dairy, one third old time farmers cattle and cereals, one third back to the land hippies mixed farming.