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Photographed: 2022-05-24
Original title: Tree Sculpture - Cottonwood Island Park - Prince George - BC
Elmer Gunderson helped make the park’s paths. Years later, he gave walkers another reason to stop along them: faces, creatures and small surprises carved into the cottonwoods.
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Photographed: 2011-10-07
Original title: DSCF1703
A grand house once stood above the meadow. Its remaining stonework leads into the story of Ben Ginter, a construction fortune, an unlikely brewery and the landscape Prince George inherited.
4 min read
Photographed: 2013-07-03
Original title: let her go
Cross the river and the familiar city rearranges itself. A walk along the forested bluffs reveals the bowl, the bridges and the long history written into the riverbanks.
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Photographed: 2012-12-22
Original title: DSC03507
A network of familiar trailheads hides an ambitious idea: keep enough forest connected that an ordinary walk can become a much larger journey.
4 min read
Photographed: 2017-05-27 05:27:36
Original title: PG Aerial.jpg
Follow a curved street, a park-centred plan and a few remarkable houses into the ambitions behind Prince George’s original railway townsite.
4 min read
Photographed: 1919date QS:P571,+1919-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Original title: Prince George, BC May 1919 (HS85-10-35684).jpg
A hundred-dollar lot, a newspaper feud and three competing visions of the future explain why the city’s beginning was anything but inevitable.
4 min readFollow the history of the Nuxalk-Carrier Grease Trail through trade, family connections and Indigenous knowledge, long before Mackenzie’s 1793 journey.
3 min read
Photographed: 1920s
Original title: Station at Dunster.jpg
Dunster’s 1913 railway station survived because local people saved it. Its rescue reveals how a small Robson Valley community keeps its history close.
3 min read
Photographed: 2017-10-05
Original title: McBride, BC aerial view.jpg
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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Photographed: 2010
Original title: Tete jaune Cache aerial view.JPG
Tête Jaune Cache once connected railway construction, riverboats and trade. Its quieter landscape also holds the history of Simpcw displacement and return.
4 min read