Devine is a country area spotted in the gates Valley
of the lillooet Country in the southwestern interior of british
Columbia,canada, something like 3 km (2 mi) from d'arcy, at the head
of anderson Lake.
Devine gets its name from being the area of a lumber
mill run by Andy Devine which employed japanese-Canadians who had
been japanese Canadian internment relocated to mcgillivray Falls.
which was simply inside the 100-mile "isolate zone" from
the british Columbia Coast. Devine could procure the Japanese, who
were accomplished lumberjacks and millworkers from the Coast, as the
region was difficult to reach from the Coast, other than by the rail
line as no street to the Coast was open until the 1960s. The mail
station at Devine opened in 1951 and shut in 1964. Stays of the old
factory can even now be found in the forested areas around Devine and
up to this point the old burner from Andy Devine's plant was the
tallest man made structure around.
Devine today is a recreational group with a couple of year round occupants. The closest administrations are at D'arcy, a couple of miles north and birken, a couple of miles more distant southwest along the street and rail line to moun.
