Eagan Lake

Eagan Lake This page is a celebration of the Klassen presence at Eagan Lake. Harvey and Pauline Klassen purchased Lot 6, sight unseen, in April 1968.

The family, sons - Michael, David, Peter and Stephen - lived in Santa Monica, California and were visiting Maurice & Audrey Danard who had purchased Lot 5, also unseen. However, Maurice's family had been to the lake, seen the area and taken pictures. Harvey's parents visited the lot and also took pictures after we had purchased. Pauline's family lived in Kamloops and also went to the lot from Hwy.

5 which was a very primitive dirt road, following Eagan Creek. The best way at this time was up the Cariboo Highway and east on Highway 24 (the fishing highway) to Bridge Lake store, then south. We are located on the north shore, facing south near the west end of the lake. There are ranches at each end of the lake and a resort at the west end. The Cleveland family once owned most of the property and we purchased our 1/2 acre from Jamie Cleveland. Eric and Robert Cleveland still live near the lake and Robbie Clevelnad's son, Gary, operates the resort at Crystal Lake - Crystal Waters Resort, which is nearby. This is where we generally go horseback riding. For many years, Harvey, Pauline and boys camped at Eagan lake. The summers are short and we often hit cold, wet weather. When the Danard's sold their lot in 1970, we built our own outhouse. In 1978, we borrowed Harvey's parent's 19' Komfort Koach, which made camping was much more pleasant. In 1979, we purchased the Komfort Koach and left it on the lot. After Harvey had his stroke in 1986, we did not visit the lake for many years. Finally in 1993, Harvey and Pauline visited the lake and decided that we needed running water, which meant electricity and a septic field. So we visited Eric Cleveland at the resort and got advise from him on how to go about building. Harvey Hill of the Condon family at Lot 8 had just built a 3 bedroom chalet style cabin and offered to build ours. We could not have had a better offer.

Summer 1974: June 28 – July 2; Mijane & Judy, Jens, Edna & Donald Hindbo, & us with the Schmidt's tent trailer
07/03/2023

Summer 1974: June 28 – July 2; Mijane & Judy, Jens, Edna & Donald Hindbo, & us with the Schmidt's tent trailer

early yesterday morning photos by Pete standing out on the frozen Eagan Lake. With temp at -38 C he was only able to get...
12/29/2021

early yesterday morning photos by Pete standing out on the frozen Eagan Lake. With temp at -38 C he was only able to get a couple pictures before the camera began to malfunction ...

my brother who is on evacuation alert up in the Cariboo took these at about mid-night last night. The lightning event la...
07/02/2021

my brother who is on evacuation alert up in the Cariboo took these at about mid-night last night. The lightning event lasted a long time, but these photos were all taken in a span of about 6 seconds !!!

pictures from Pete & Steve's hike a few days ago.
06/28/2021

pictures from Pete & Steve's hike a few days ago.

a trip to the lake, Pete catches a fish, dad with neighbor Herb Telford ...
12/05/2020

a trip to the lake, Pete catches a fish, dad with neighbor Herb Telford ...

a visit to Eagan Lake, I think the summer of 1996 ...
12/05/2020

a visit to Eagan Lake, I think the summer of 1996 ...

Photo from Pete taken Sunday from the field at Cleveland Rd. "Comet NEOWISE looking to NE from field, at 3:26am today."
07/14/2020

Photo from Pete taken Sunday from the field at Cleveland Rd. "Comet NEOWISE looking to NE from field, at 3:26am today."

Photos of Eagan Lake taken Easter (mid-April) 1968, by Audrey Danard who was original owner of lot 5 right beside our lo...
10/15/2018

Photos of Eagan Lake taken Easter (mid-April) 1968, by Audrey Danard who was original owner of lot 5 right beside our lot.

Evacuation Order and Alerts near Eagan Lake
08/12/2018

Evacuation Order and Alerts near Eagan Lake

Evacuation Alert near Eagan Lake due to the Young Lake wildfire
08/11/2018

Evacuation Alert near Eagan Lake due to the Young Lake wildfire

today at the lake
07/16/2018

today at the lake

Bridge Lake Store for sale -
07/09/2018

Bridge Lake Store for sale -

Bridge Lake/Sheridan Lake Business with Property for sale: $$$ making historic Bridge Lake Store is ready for new owners. This business has long been the center of attention for locals and tourists for all their grocery, gas, tackle, sundries & li...

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8896 Cleveland Road
Bridge Lake, BC

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250-593-4265

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