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Central Fort George

Central Fort George

Central Fort George (1912)

Central Fort George was a townsite that was promoted in what would later be called Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. It encompassed the area from the Nechako River south to 15th Avenue and from Carney Street west to Quinn Street. Before the arrival of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1914, the Prince George area was known as Fort George and was a Lheidli T'enneh village and Hudson's Bay Company store. When the construction of the railway was announced, there was a great deal of interest in the area and in 1909, both Central Fort George and South Fort George on the Fraser River were built and promoted by land speculators who were hoping to get in on the ground floor before the railway was completed. Both of these townsites believed that the railway would build a station in their community, but in May of 1912, the railway chose to purchase the First Nation's village instead.

Natural Resources Security Company

George Hammond at the Natural Resources Security Company (1912)

Fire

Moving a building to Prince George (1913)

References I use a lot

• West, Willis (1985). Stagecoach and Sternwheel Days in the Cariboo and Central BC. Heritage House. ISBN 0-919214-68-1.
• Downs, Art (1971). Paddlewheels on the Frontier Volume 1. Foremost Publishing. ISBN 0888260334.
• Christensen, Bev (1989). Prince George: Rivers, Railways and Timber. Windsor Publications. ISBN 0-89781-266-2.
• Leonard, Frank (1996). A Thousand Blunders: The History of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in Northern British Columbia. UBC Press. ISBN 0-7748-0552-8.
• Bennett, Norma (1997). Pioneer Legacy: Chronicles of the Lower Skeena River. Dr. REM Lee Hospital Foundation. ISBN 0-9683026-0-2.
• Ramsey, Bruce (1963). Ghost Towns of British Columbia. Mitchell Press. ISBN Unknown. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
• Stangoe, Irene (1994). Cariboo Chilcotin Pioneer People and Places. Heritage House. ISBN 1-895811-12-0.
• West, Willis (1949). BX and the Rush to Fort George. BC Historical Quarterly.
• Sedgwick, Kent (2205). Street Names of Prince George. CNC Press. ISBN 0-9735092-0-1. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)
• Koppel, Tom (1995). Kanaka:The Untold Story of Hawaiian Pioneers in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. Whitecap Books. p. 104. ISBN 1-55110-295-1.

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Helpful exterior links

• Place names in the Kootenays
• East Shore of Kootenay Lake history