Walk almost any street in Lillooet in midsummer and you'll pass an apricot tree nobody planted on purpose — grown from a dropped pit in a valley hot enough to make it happen by accident. This episode finally gives the Apricot Tsaqwem Festival its due: how a simple "Apricot Fest" grew to properly honour tsaqwem, the native saskatoon berry St'át'imc communities have harvested for generations; the 1861 ranches that first fed Cariboo gold miners; the legendary, foul-mouthed newspaperwoman who spent 50 years insisting Canada pay attention to this "sagebrush country"; and the genuinely unpretentious, all-ages weekend of live music, pancake breakfasts, and home-baked apricot pie that brings this whole season's story onto one lawn every July.

🎙️ Canuckly S02E18 — "Apricots, Tsaqwem, and a Town That Still Gathers"

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