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St. Michael and All Angels church, one of the group of Anglican churches in the southern Interior--Pokhaist being another. For highway travellers heading east on the Trans Canada, it has always defined the arrival at Spences Bridge, and sits on the edge of the village of the Cook's Ferry Indian band. Like Pokhaist and St. John at the Latin Gate near Ashcroft, it appears to be unused--abandoned.

It is a very eccentric design, with a shingled steeple like a little brown helmet. Apparently it was built around 1905, replacing an earlier church that was destroyed in a horrific landslide that also wiped out the Indian village on the other side of the river.