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A History of Prince George. Prince George: the author. University Women's Club of Prince George (2005). Street Names of Prince George. Prince George: College of New Caledonia Press. ISBN 0-9735092-0-1. Walker, Russell. Bacon, Beans and Brave Hearts. West, Willis J. (1985). Stagecoach and Sternwheeler Days in the Cariboo and Central BC.
The Prince George Newspapers database is a partnering initiative with key information service providers in Northern British Columbia, Canada. In this collaborative venture, three libraries – the Prince George Public Library, the College of New Caledonia Library, and the Geoffrey R. Weller Library at the University of Northern British Columbia – are working together to provide free online ...
The British Columbia Interior, popularly referred to as the BC Interior or simply the Interior, is a geographic region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.While the exact boundaries are variously defined, the British Columbia Interior is generally defined to include the 14 regional districts that do not have coastline along the Pacific Ocean or Salish Sea, and are not part of the ...
BX at South Fort George (1910) South Fort George is a suburb of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. Before the arrival of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1914, the Prince George area was known as Fort George and was a Lheidli T'enneh village and Hudson's Bay Company store. In 1909, two rival townsites were built and promoted.
In Prince George, then known as Fort George, there was more rivalry than usual. By the time the railway was ready to purchase land for a townsite there in 1910, two rival ones had already been built, South Fort George and Central Fort George , each of them bordering a 1,366-acre (5.53 km 2 ) Lheidli T'enneh village and reserve.
In 1961, with customers sharing in the capital cost, BC Hydro installed distribution lines, [156] and the community also implemented street lighting. [157] CKPG-TV of Prince George, coming on air in 1961, offered a clear reception. [158] BC Hydro extended the power line across the river to the reserve. [159] Street lighting was upgraded in 1991 ...
It is home to the Prince George Cougars ice hockey team of the Western Hockey League. And in 2010, for one season, the CN Centre was the home of the Prince George Fury, of the Canadian Indoor Soccer League. The CN Centre has a 200 ft. x 85 ft. ice surface, and is able to convert to an Olympic-sized ice surface of 200 ft. x 100 ft.
The local office and warehouse of the BC Express Company were located there from 1910 until 1921. Hamilton Avenue was also the address of the Hotel Northern which, during the era of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction, was one of the busiest hotels in British Columbia, often enjoying sales of $7000 per day, at a time when drinks were 25 ...