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Beaton is partially inhabited although its historic settled area was drowned by the raising of the Arrow Lakes in the 1960s due to the construction of the Keenleyside Dam above Castlegar. It is best known for the photographs of Mattie Gunterman, who was camp cook and lived in Beaton with her family from 1890 till 1920. Her photographs are available on line as part of the Vancouver Public Library's Special Collection digitization project, at www.vpl.ca/gunterman/overview.html. Comaplix was a mining town on the Incomappleux River near Beaton, on the northeast side of Beaton Arm on Upper Arrow lake. The photos below were sent in by Jon Perrett, showing his grandfather Henery Perrett's photo album from 1907. Henery Perrett went on run the hotel at Brookmere.