The picture at
left was taken prior to the building of the Seton Lake dam at Seton Beach
in the 1950s and was taken from the vicinity of today's Seton Lake Band
government offices and Seton House, an old guesthouse (the picture was probably
taken from Seton House's lakefront porch, in fact). The picture illustrates
a famous old phenomenon on Seton Lake, seen when the water was dead calm
the "Totem Pole", viewable by clicking on the picture, which will rotate
it 90 degrees to the left. Following the raising of the lake, the
image of the Totem Pole disappeared due to increased opacity of the water
and greater disturbance of the bay by the outflow from the powerhouses.
The raising of Seton Lake is known to have seriously affected the lake's
fishery, partly from the disturbance of spawning grounds on its shores as
well as from the introduction of the much colder, siltier water of the Bridge
River. The range in the background is the McGillivray Range; the peak
visible is Goat Mountain
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