By Harry Giles in the Dawson Creek Star, Nov. 21, 1959  The story of Dawson Creek presents problems to the historian. Not because the start is lost in legends of the past but knowing exactly how that start actually took place. Cities do not just “happen”. There must be a reason for them being where they are…. Read More

by Harry Giles, The Vancouver Province, 1953 For a town to grow from a population of less than 100 to over 5,000 in twenty two years indicates a good prosperous district and progressive businessmen. Dawson Creek, the largest town in the Peace River District of British Columbia and Alberta, has made this growth. In 1930… Read More

May 6, 1930-first issue of the Peace River Block News comes off the press in Rolla, B.C. Charles S. Kitchen is the publisher. May 27, 1930-two carloads of creamery cows for patrons of Pouce Coupe Co-operative Creamery arrived in Hythe and were driven to Pouce Coupe to be distributed to various parts of the district…. Read More

by Day Roberts A topic which has been stewing in my mind for quite some time has been the gradual disappearance of various landmark eating establishments in our area over the years. I have been mentally masticating upon the many new restaurants that have recently opened their doors in Dawson Creek to add variety of… Read More

by G.R. Clare (1997) Old-timers may laugh about looking “all the way back” to 1959, but for a lot of people in the area that date nearly qualifies as ancient history. After all, World War II and the construction of the Alaska Highway was only 15 years in the past. Dawson Creek, in 1959, had… Read More

In 1946 a post four feet high which marked the beginning of the newly constructed Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek was hit by a car and broken. The post was situated at the corner of 8th Street and Alaska Avenue in the city and was the same as those posts which marked every mile throughout… Read More

The News, Progress Edition, Friday, April 27, 1979By Dorthea H. Calverley On August 12th, 1979, Dawson Creek will pass the centennial of its discovery by the first white man who passed this way. Thanks to the firm of Watson and Stables, District Land Surveyors, we can now follow his route across country from East Pine to… Read More

By Dorthea Calverley, 1983Stories differ about the by-passing of the already existing village of Pouce Coupe in favour of the present site of Dawson Creek, but nearly all attribute the final choice to the Pouce Coupe pioneer Tom Jamieson’s dispute with the railroad purchasing agents. In 1916 when the railroad had reached Grande Prairie, the… Read More

From the Memoirs of Mrs. M. Bullen The first Post Office in Dawson Creek was a small lean-to attached to a building which was the first store situated in the old town in 1919. This was two miles south and west of the present Dawson Creek location. The Postmaster then was Arthur Pelletier. Later the Post… Read More

By Dorthea H. Calverley Tuesday and Fridays were big nights in the old village before 1942, yet nobody ever went to a party or attended meetings or other entertainment on those evenings. Tuesdays and Fridays the passenger train (usually) arrived, with a mail car between the engine and the first class passenger coach. There was always… Read More