Wife is a farm (ranch) girl from Southern .Alberta. My family's farm was here, in the Fraser Valley. We are retired now, but had a farm in the .Columbia Valley, up near Cultus lake. Know the Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Chetwynd, Hudson Hope are pretty well. When the wife and I bought our farm, we looked in Metchosin too. Beautiful area, no doubt. Lived the city life, house in town, during the week, and went to the farm on weekends, holidays, and such. Had caretakers to help out. Ended up spending almost all our time on the farm anyway. Now we're old, and live in a friggin' condo:( only good thing about that is I can toss things off the balcony and hit people on the sidewalks below. Kept a couple cattle prods too. Keep one charged up, and it rides shotgun on my scooter. If buggers on the sidewalk slow me down, I whack 'em good.