It looked like Noah’s Ark recently at the North Thompson Fall Fair and Rodeo Association facility in Barriere. Every nook and cranny that could hold an animal was doing just that, and the fair association had also built a multitude of other small and large pens to hold the overflow.
From a horse holding capacity of 125 horse stalls and individual pens, it was increased to house a final total of 378 animals, with approximately 75 per cent of that number horses. Wherever you looked there were horses, sheep, pigs, chickens, goats, alpacas, and even dogs in housed in one area for a brief time.
Each animal had been transported to the fairgrounds because of evacuation alerts or orders issued due to wildfire activity in the North Thompson and the Caribou region starting on July 7. They came from all over; Clinton, Green Lake, 100 Mile House, 108, Little Fort, Clearwater, Lemieux Creek, Dunn Lake Road and more.
