By James L. Buxton, The Province, May 25, 1930 Many thousands of years ago, when the world was getting on in years but still having its face “lifted” in many of its areas, it seems likely that the wide line of the Parsnip and Finlay River valleys was one continuous waterway. At length came the… Read More

 At no place in the Peace River country are the actions of nature more forcibly depicted than in the Peace River Canyon at Hudson Hope. Perhaps no nearer approach to the ‘irresistible force meeting the immovable object’ may be found anywhere for the waters have proven that they are irresistible and the rock mountains that… Read More

BILL CARTER — moved into Hudson’s Hope about 1906 after helping put in police trail from Fort St. John to Fort Grahame in 1905. Has lived continuously in Hudson’s Hope since then, except for one or two trips to Fort St. John and one trip to Peace River. Still at Hudson’s Hope. NEIL GETHING —… Read More

By Dorthea H. CalverleyThe first three “official” trains to enter Fort St. John arrived on the minute at 1:30 p.m., October 3rd, 1958. Premier W. A. C. Bennett, Joe Broadbent (Superintendent) and representatives of nine major railways were greeted with “Cock O’ The North” played by the Dawson Creek Pipe Band, as the bright colored… Read More

  From Peace River Block News, November 10, 1931 Fort St. John — that enterprising frontier town of the north — experienced another gala day on Saturday, November 7. That afternoon the C.E. Phillips Milling Company’s flour mill opened. There was quite a gathering of representative farmers and others including a number of Pouce Coupe,… Read More

From an interview by Lee J. Phillips, 1973 Cross-posted: 18-023: Mr. & Mrs. Alexis Gauthier Alexeis Gauthier was born in 1903 and has lived all his life in the Moberly Lake area. He didn’t go to school as none was available. His mother was part Cree and Beaver Indian and his father was Cree. Years… Read More

One of nature’s gems, nestling in rugged cutbanks along the Peace River, is a split- level flat — large as river flats go — very rich and productive and now the centre of interest for Peace River Country and probably all the Western provinces. This unique spot, for years the home of Indians, wild animals,… Read More

The Bear Flat settlement at the mouth of Cache Creek, fifteen miles above Fort St. John, started in 1912 by the first squatter. George Freer and family came in 1914 by way of Peace River, in a caboose. In those days flour was ten dollars and sugar thirty dollars per hundred pounds. The chief industry… Read More

Before this country was settled there were only trappers living along the river. There were no roads and no need of them, as the river was the great highway. North of this settlement and west runs an old police trail from the R.C.M.P. post at Peace River to Hudson Hope and further west. Up to… Read More

Cross-posted: 8-042: North Pine Women’s Institute (1957) Our North Pine district is located in the two valleys of Indian Creek and the Beatton or as we ‘locals’ know it, the North Pine River. Only a few standing spruce remain out of the acres that must have once covered these parts. Diamond willows and poplar with… Read More