By Mrs. George Murphy NevilleFarmers are found in fields plowing up, seeding down, planting to, fertilizing with, spraying against and finally harvesting it. Wives help them; little boys and dogs follow them. Agriculture departments confuse them. City relations visit them. Meals wait for them. Weather can delay them but it takes Heaven to stop them…. Read More

By Dorthea H. CalverleyWhere the land is not suitable there is no agriculture. This simple law cannot be challenged. Crops can be grown by artificial means such as hydroponics, as is done in parts of Arctic Russia. Animals can be kept by importing all the feed for them. At the present time, although it may… Read More

By A.A. Guitard, Director – Research station, Beaverlodge, Alberta (1965)The Peace River region is many things to many people. To the geographer it is a large landmass lying essentially north of 55 N. latitude in northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta. It is a region drained by the Peace River which flows east and north… Read More

By Harry GilesTrying of look into the future of the Peace River District of British Columbia and put its possibilities into cold print is not an easy matter. The country is large and conditions within it vary. There are low poorly drained spots where frosts are frequent and there are benches above the Peace where… Read More

By Dorthea CalverleyWheat was being grown in 1809 at Dunvegan in the Peace River country, as recorded in the journal of Fur-Trader, Daniel Harmon. But it was not until 1893 that the agricultural world paid any attention to this fact. That year, at the Chicago World’s Fair, a sample sent by the Rev. John Gough… Read More

By Dorthea Calverley. Hector Tremblay, founder of the first pioneer family, had several special characteristics that made his arrival on the Pouce Coupe Prairie significant. Circumstances had made the area ready for that special kind of newcomer. Hector Tremblay was an adventurer, heading to the Klondike when winter overtook the party. They were in the… Read More

Hector Tremblay, Jr. was interviewed by Mr. E. Hendricks and Mrs. Ruby Stevenson.Please note: the Interviewers’ questions are marked with an * Hector Tremblay and his family were the first white settlers in the BC Peace River Area. My father was born in Quebec on Lake St. John and they came out west with the C…. Read More

By Dorthea CalverleyAlexander Monkman was a man of such extraordinary versatility that he is notable in the fur trade history, the transportation industry, the exploration, the mining industry, and the farming industry. Here, however, we make special reference to his work towards encouraging the use of good seed stocks. Like many others of our local… Read More

By Dorthea CalverleyIt took the power of BC Hydro to depose the Beatties from their empire on the Upper Peace River! The waters of Lake Williston cover the scene of a saga of pioneer living that has a curious parallel only in the story of the Lawrences of Fort Vermilion near the Peace River mouth…. Read More

By Dorthea CalverleyNo frontier country is ever opened up without people like Lee Miller and his family. Folks with itching feet must go to the farthest places before they can settle down. From the sunny south of the United States, Lee Miller — born and raised in Rolla, Missouri — homesteaded for years in South… Read More