The Star, Port Essington
The Star, Port Essington The Star newspaper was first published at Port Essington on June 20, 1908. The following pdf file of that first copy was obtained from the University… Read More »The Star, Port Essington
Skeena Stories . .
FROM THE NORTH
FROM THE NORTH Victoria Daily Times, June 11, 1894 News Brought by the SteamerBoscowitz—Unprecedentedly High Water Six Indians Drowned at the Canyon—Politics, Fishing and Other News The correspondent of the… Read More »FROM THE NORTH
Life in the Railway Camps
Life in the Railway Camps Reprinted from the 1912 book The Making of a Great Canadian Railway by F. A. Talbot, Chapter XVIII If one wishes to see the rough… Read More »Life in the Railway Camps
The Terrace Floods, 1978: defining a disaster
The Terrace Floods, 1978: defining a disaster by Joseph Scanlon and Brian Taylor with Therese Jarzab,Emergency Preparedness Canada In November 1978 the Terrace area was inundated by over 144 millimeters… Read More »The Terrace Floods, 1978: defining a disaster
Kwinitsa
Kwinitsa by Charles LeRoss Kwinitsa, (originally “Quinitsa”, Tsimshian for “place of the beaver”) was the busiest train station located midpoint between Terrace and Prince Rupert on the GTP/CNR. It is… Read More »Kwinitsa
Murder on a Sunday morning
Murder on a Sunday morning by Charles LeRoss When I decided to add this story to the website, I tried to include information from each of the legal proceedings I… Read More »Murder on a Sunday morning
Track Layer
Track Layer by Charles LeRoss By March 1910, the rail bed for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) had been blasted out of the rock on Kaien Island, following a… Read More »Track Layer
Bridging Zanardi Rapids
Bridging Zanardi Rapids by Charles LeRoss In April 1908, the first construction contract for the western end of the Grand Trunk Pacific was let at Prince Rupert. The contract was… Read More »Bridging Zanardi Rapids
BLEEDING DAY AND NIGHT:
BLEEDING DAY AND NIGHT: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY ACROSS TSIMSHIAN RESERVE LANDS1 JAMES A. MCDONALD Department of Ethnology Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen’s Park Toronto, Ontario,… Read More »BLEEDING DAY AND NIGHT:
The Ballad of the Skeena
The soft wet snow was falling fast
As up the Skeena river passed
A youth with six dogs on the trail,
Who bore along King George’s mail.
