Many in B.C. recognize Hope as the travel stop for ice cream, a Tesla charge or even a $2 used book store between the Lower Mainland and the rest of the province, and would see little evidence of how hard it’s been hit by the toxic drug overdose crisis and community leaders’ desperate efforts to keep people alive.
The district municipality of Hope, known as a work-hard, play-hard logging town, defined by a verdant central park and chainsaw wood carvings, is ringed by picturesque mountains and sits at the confluence of the Fraser and Coquihalla rivers, about an hour and 45 minutes drive from Vancouver.
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