People & places
The People Who Built the Backcountry Cabins East of Prince George
Raven Lake, Grizzly Den and 8-Mile exist because people kept turning a love of the mountains into practical work.
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Stories from Prince George and northern BC
Forest science, mountain landscapes and local history. Find another reason to get outside.
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The original Grizzly Den A-frame cabin among the trees in October 2006, before its replacement.Shane McCallum · CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 · Noncommercial only History & heritage
The Little Prince: A Steam Engine’s Journey From Railway Construction to City Park
The Little Prince locomotive standing beside its station in Prince George. The photographer dates this film image to August 2025.₡ґǘșϯγ Ɗᶏ Ⱪᶅṏⱳդ · CC0 1.0 The small locomotive in Prince George’s park has been a working machine, a salvaged artifact and a community project.
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The Nuxalk-Carrier Grease Trail: The Great Road That Existed Before Mackenzie
Follow the history of the Nuxalk-Carrier Grease Trail through trade, family connections and Indigenous knowledge, long before Mackenzie’s 1793 journey.
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Dunster: The Little Railway Station Its Community Would Not Let Disappear
Dunster station in the 1920s, before its later move and restoration. Fraser Fort-George Regional Museum, catalogue 2003.8.15.Unknown photographer; Fraser Fort-George Regional Museum, catalogue 2003.8.15 · Public domain (Canada and United States) Dunster’s 1913 railway station survived because local people saved it. Its rescue reveals how a small Robson Valley community keeps its history close.
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McBride: The Mountain Town Built Around a Railway Station
McBride and the Fraser River valley seen from Mount Lucille in October 2017. This landscape photograph provides context for the town, rather than a close view of its station.Rufus Hawthorne · CC BY-SA 4.0 McBride’s station faces straight up Main Street. Its architecture, daily routines and surviving town plan explain how the railway shaped this mountain community.
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Tête Jaune Cache: The Railway Boomtown Beside Today’s Quiet Fraser River
The Tête Jaune Cache area and Fraser River seen from Mica Mountain in 2010, with Mount Robson in the distance. The modern landscape does not identify the exact former townsite or sites of Simpcw displacement.Rufus Hawthorne · Public domain dedication by the photographer Tête Jaune Cache once connected railway construction, riverboats and trade. Its quieter landscape also holds the history of Simpcw displacement and return.
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Wells: The Gold Town That Grew During the Great Depression
Commercial buildings in Wells, with the Sunset Theatre at right, photographed in 2007.Mike Cleven (Skookum1) · Public domain dedication by the photographer Wells grew while much of Canada struggled for work. Follow the gold, town planning and community life behind its colourful Cariboo streets.
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Fort Fraser’s Last Spike: The Other Railway Ceremony That Changed Northern BC
Near Fort Fraser in April 1914, the Grand Trunk Pacific’s rails met. The ceremony tells a northern railway story of ambition, work and complicated consequences.
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The Sawmill Communities That Once Lined the Upper Fraser Railway
Penny’s former station at the Central BC Railway and Forestry Museum in Prince George, photographed in 2022. The museum moved the building from Penny in 1988.₡ґǘșϯγ Ɗᶏ Ⱪᶅṏⱳդ · CC0 1.0 · Supporting historic-artifact photograph. Keep the location caption so the museum image is not mistaken for the present-day Penny settlement. Giscome, Penny and other Upper Fraser settlements grew around mills and railway connections. Follow the machinery, community life and changes behind their names.
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