Bella (Attachie) Yahey was born in 1858 to the Great Chief Attachie, one of the Beaver First Nations leaders who, in 1900, signed Treaty 8 in Fort St. John, BC. Bella played a very active role with her people and was visible and regular feature around town. She married Charley Yahey, for whose father Charlie Lake is named. At her death in 1976 at the reported age of 118 she was believed to be the oldest living Canadian at the time.