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Photographed: 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.
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Photographed: 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.
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Photographed: 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.
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Photographed: 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.
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Photographed: 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.
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Photographed: 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.
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Photographed: 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.
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Photographed: 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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Photographed: 2006-10-07
Original title: Grizzly Den Hike (34).JPG
Raven Lake, Grizzly Den and 8-Mile exist because people kept turning a love of the mountains into practical work.
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Photographed: 2025-08-27
Original title: Prince
The small locomotive in Prince George’s park has been a working machine, a salvaged artifact and a community project.
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