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Photographed: 2007
Original title: 07-04-07 1931 wellstheatre.jpg
Wells grew while much of Canada struggled for work. Follow the gold, town planning and community life behind its colourful Cariboo streets.
4 min readNear 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.
3 min read
Supporting historic-artifact photograph. Keep the location caption so the museum image is not mistaken for the present-day Penny settlement.
Photographed: 2022-08-23
Original title: Station
Giscome, Penny and other Upper Fraser settlements grew around mills and railway connections. Follow the machinery, community life and changes behind their names.
3 min read
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Photographed: 2012-09-23
Original title: photo-2012-09-23-13-20-40-190
Two familiar hilltops north of Prince George reveal volcanic plumbing, cooling fractures and fragments carried up from beneath the landscape.
3 min read
Photographed: 2019-06
Original title: 2019-06 Rearguard Falls (02).jpg
A short walk to Rearguard Falls opens onto a much longer journey: Chinook salmon returning from the Pacific to the upper Fraser River.
2 min read
Photographed: 2024-04-03
Original title: Some photos from where a confluence of rivers should be I took last week for a story you may have seen on CBC
At Prince George’s river confluence, a changing line in the water can reveal sediment, seasons and the slow work of two rivers mixing.
3 min read
Photographed: 2012-08-19
Original title: Nechako River Bird Sanctuary
River islands, migrating geese and the small details of a stopover make Vanderhoof’s Nechako River a rewarding place to watch spring unfold.
3 min read
Photographed: 2019-03-28 18:05:19
Original title: Trumpeter swans in winter.jpg
Fraser Lake’s winter swans offer a quieter northern BC outing, shaped by open water, feeding places and conditions that change through the season.
3 min read
Noncommercial use only. Adaptations retain the image licence. Preserve photographer attribution and licence.
Photographed: 2010-12-28
Original title: Moore's Meadow Snow
A lake in the forest, an open meadow, a dedicated snowshoe network or a park shaped by glaciers: choose the winter outing that fits the day.
2 min read
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Photographed: 2012-11-18
Original title: DSC03296
The lake is the opening in the trees. The outing stays on shore: a defined circuit from Kueng Road, with room to turn back when winter asks for a shorter day.
2 min read