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1 to 10 of 31 stories in History
Photographed: 2010-09-08 11:19
Original title: Berg Lake (1).jpg
A familiar mountain journey now carries the marks of a major flood and a careful rethink of where a trail belongs.
3 min readPhotographed: 2015-08-11
Original title: IMG_20150811_103155
A summer outing on Flatbed Creek helped turn familiar bedrock into a scientific story that a whole community could take part in.
3 min readPhotographed: 2021-09-11
Original title: Fraser River Big Bend
North of Prince George, a forest trail crosses a divide that mattered long before roads. Its story connects Indigenous travel, Black prospectors and the movement of goods.
3 min readPhotographed: 2021-09-11
Original title: Cottonwood Trees
The farmhouse is only the beginning. A riverside visit becomes richer when you connect the house, store and fish-camp interpretation to the movement of people and supplies.
4 min readPhotographed: 2017-06-26
Original title: Kinuseo Falls BC Canada.jpg
A proposed route through the Rockies left an extraordinary story of volunteers, mountain travel and a road that never became the highway its supporters imagined.
3 min readPhotographed: 2025-08-26
Original title: Across the river
A familiar riverside walk sits beside the history of a neighbourhood. Remembering Island Cache means looking beyond the flood to the people and decisions that shaped its disappearance.
3 min readPhotographed: 2017-05-11
Original title: Fort George Park.jpg
The riverside paths are also part of a living community’s story. A thoughtful visit begins with the Lheidli T’enneh and the accounts they share about this place.
3 min readPhotographed: 2008-07-07
Original title: Barkerville BC - Watermill.jpg
Follow Williams Creek from a surviving gold-rush town to the courthouse that outlasted its neighbours.
3 min readPhotographed: 2008-07-29 10:09:28
Original title: FortSt.James-NHS-2008.jpg
Look beyond the trading-post outline to hand-worked timber, family histories and a lake that connected people long before the fort.
3 min readPhotographed: 2007-05
Original title: Paddlewheel Park.jpg
A shop painted to catch passing boats, a house above the landing and a river that once set the direction of a journey.
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