Ralph Edwards was looking for a place where he could build a homestead that was surrounded by mountains, and first reached Lonesome Lake in British Columbia in the winter of 1912. The nearest settlement was roughly 40 miles away, and Edwards spent his first years there largely on his own. He eventually built a home, established a farm and married Ethel Hober, who joined him in the wilderness. Their three children grew up at Lonesome Lake, where the family also became closely involved with the survival of the trumpeter swan. Edwards remained at Lonesome Lake until 1966, which gave him more than five decades there. The place that began as his remote homestead is now part of the landscape of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park.
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