Frozen in time

I started dreaming about a place, along time ago. This was a reoccurring dream that happened hundreds of times. This dream came to me when I was very young. I started dreaming vivid or "Future" dreams when I was 12 years old. This particular reoccurring dream started when I was 15 years old up until I was 45 years old, so 30 years. I didn't know what it meant or it was trying to tell me at the time but now, I have learned so much and now I can understand what it was trying to tell me.

In the dream, it showed me a place with a lazy river going around the bend, a man made beach, old train tracks on the land. A train used to use this railroad to get from one side of the lake to the other. There were trails to be made up and down the plateau, like plate tectonics all along the hilly landscape. I saw an old spooky run down campground that wasn't big enough for a vehicle to go into (This creeped me out). It was originally built for quad tenting only. In the dream, it showed me that I was the curator of this huge 5 bedroom, 2 bathrooms and 1 half bathroom, cedar, log cabin, a lodge. It wasn't a 2 story house, it was a vaulted ceiling with 2 lofts on top. It was a business. It was named the "Bear's Den". The name was written on a carved piece of pine 20 feet above the entrance. It was written and carved by a skilled craftsman. It sat on top of the Inn, as you walked under the porch into the foyer.

As you entered the foyer, to the left of you you smelled a wood burning fireplace with a sunken in area for seating or storytelling or just to sit and warm yourself with the fire. The fireplace itself was built out of stone. The stack grew past the roof and got smaller as it neared the roof. Every stone was put in place by hand and secured with cement. To your right, the front desk sat. Rooms were available for the weary traveler. Everything was made out of a wood cutters, log cabin dream. The desk was made from birch and pine. Everything that was in the eyesight was amazing! Every attention to detail was well thought out. It smelled like you were standing in the woods around a campfire. The whole place was so comforting and inviting. It was a place where you wanted to be. There was also a lounge down the hallway, for the weary traveler to take a break and relax.

The Bear's den was also equipped with 6 knotty pine cabins just down from the lodge. 3 cabins on either side of the central fire pit ranged from 1 to 2 bedroom. They were 15 x 20 feet and 20 x 25 for the 2 bedroom. Each cabin was outfitted with a secured potbellied stove, a stove, fridge, living room and bedrooms were all furnished. Bathroom with a shower. The water was being pumped in from the lake. The cabins were set up on their own septic system. The power was solar power. The details to each cabin was different. All cabins were modern with TV's and satellite. Each had their own rustic feel with snow shoes or traps. Some would have stuffed animals, deer or moose heads. All cabins were different with their own flair and named as such.

The idea of this lodge, cabins and lake was to bring back, "Being Green" and being environmentally friendly with reducing "Greenhouse" gasses. Speaking of greenhouse. I saw 4 greenhouses in the plateau, surrounded and protected by trees. In those greenhouses, all fruits and vegetables were grown during the spring, summer and fall months. Also behind the greenhouses were bee hives. Honey was harvested and sold as the "Bear's Den Honey Pot". The lodge also supported breakfasts. The campers had kitchenettes to cook their own foods in the evenings.

There was a lush green, 18 hole golf course landscaped right next to the Bear's Den. It is a lakefront dream to the right developer.

In the spring and summer months, there were quads to rent, boats and sea doo's, kayaks, paddleboards. Everyone had to go through a credit check of course before they stayed in the cabins or rented the equipment. The tenting area was extended and rebuilt. It was made bigger so that all vehicles could go into the area and tent if they wanted to be closer to nature. In total, there was 30 tenting areas with a outdoor cookstove. It was big enough to bring small campers. The bigger campers could camp on the outside of the tenting area with electrical hook ups, septic drain and water refill. All equipment was set up with a GPS locators, incase someone got any funny ideas.

In the winter months, you could rent a ski doo, ice auger and a insulated iced fishing tent. The renter had to bring their own fishing rods. Fishing rods could be bought and all the fishing tackle needed at the lodge in the gift shop if you didn't bring your own. A skating rink was made on the lake for anyone who wanted to enjoy the beauty of the frozen lake. Skates could be rented if you didn't bring your own.

We never went to this place in my life when I was younger. My parents took me and my brother everywhere. We went to BC, Alberta, the U.S., the mountains. It was always beautiful and we had an amazing time. Every experience was new and exciting.

As I grew older, my cousins and my children and I went camping, fishing and quadding to this very place in my dream. I never saw it before in my life, but I knew immediately, what this was. My dream gave me every single detail from the layout of the land, the trees, the smells, and where everything was and where it should be to the beaches and the lazy river where you could fish or off the beach area itself. Even the old pillars from the old train track was there. I was in paradise! It was the oasis that I dreamt of so many times. The sandy beach with the plateau landscape on the opposite side of the shore.

So, I was in awe at the sheer size and beauty of it all!! There were quadding tracks everywhere. There was an old tenting area that was also part of my dreamscape. My paradise! Although, in my dream, the Bear's Den was on the opposite side of the lake, it was so easy to take a paddle board or a kayak across. I was so tempted to just swim across but I didn't know if the current was strong or not so I decided against my rash thought.

Of course, all the community members in the area used this all the time for fishing and quadding. It was used by everyone. Even the lush green golf course was right next to my paradise.

I was curious about this land that was popping out in front of me right in front of my eyes and out of my dreams mind!! The reality and the shock was so intense! I sat on the beach for 2 hours, looking across and saw every detail so clearly in my mind. So I started asking the locals and everyone about it. Who owned it, if anyone did. It was right next to a pristine golf course and would be expensive to buy I thought.

What I found out about this place was that it was a piece of land that was signed by a treaty by 7 elders in 1941 from 7 bands. One of the signers was my great great grandfather. I had no idea! So I started researching more about these Treaties. I asked my aunt for help with this because she knows so much more about the treaties. A treaty can never be broken, sold, only honored in what was that they intended and wanted to do. They wanted everyone to claim a part of the land, the family from each band, the names of the ancestors families to come forth and bring unity to their communities for our future generations, children, elders and youth, everyone. To build and develop something for everyone, not only themselves but for all of our people. When the elders signed this treaty in July 1941, they saw the beauty of the land and the potential of what it could mean for everyone and what it could become if someone had a vision to create a paradise, an oasis. That is what my dream meant, I was the one chosen from my family to build on a dream. To create and make this a reality for not only my family, for so many others to enjoy.

A few years ago, I had learned about this particular piece of land because one of our leaders tried to sell it!! The holders of the land entitlement told him, flat out NO! Your ancestors name is not on the treaty, therefore, you have no entitlement or access to it. It was written as a safeguard against this kind of thought. The elders knew then that there is everything here to sustain and maintain a healthy way of life. Living off the land and enjoying its beauty and imagination. What ever your heart desires, it can come true.

This is my vision........

It has been given to me for a reason and I am going to do what I need to do in order to make my dream come true for everyone. I have the means and the knowledge and the know how and the people in my life to make this happen. My dream and my elders told me that it was going to take 2 years to get started and from there, within 5 years, everything else will fall into place and happen as it is supposed to........