Feature Stories . . .
The Wreck of the Mount Royal reprinted from The Sun, July 13, 1907, published in Port Essington The Mount Royal is no more. She left Hazelton at 9 Saturday morning and struck Ringbolt Island at 3:04 in the afternoon and at 3:15 was going through the awful canyon in tatters, bottom up and unpiloted—a coffin… Read More »Home
Love and Lonesome Songs of the Skeena River
Love and Lonesome Songs of the Skeena River by Ellen Karp Moses The speakers of the three dialects of Tsimshian, the Coast Tsimshian, the Nishka, and the Gitksan, inhabit the coastal regions and valleys of the Nass and Skeena Rivers in northern British Columbia. While they share many ceremonial practices with other northern coastal tribes,… Read More »Home
The No. 1 Armored Train
The No. 1 Armored Train by Jim Suderman, Mennonite Heritage Centre This article was published in Manitoba History, Number 19, Spring 1990 by the Manitoba Historical Society Some photographs of armored railway cars found in the collection of the Transcona Museum spurred the author to investigate the story of Canada’s Number One Armored Train. After… Read More »Home
Library
A list of the books that have been published about the Skeena River and area.
Skeena Map
A map of the Skeena River from Spokeshute (Port Essington) to the headwaters north of Kispiox.
Sternwheelers
Information about the sternwheelers that plied up and down the Skeena River from 1864 to 1912.
Index of Indexes
A searchable index created from all of the indexes in the 40 books I have related to the Skeena River.
Skeena Atlas
A series of maps covering the Skeena River and the Pacific Northwest.
Stories
Stories about the people, places and events along the Skeena River.
