• Giscome is a community comprising scattered houses located at the southwest end of Eaglet Lake, which is east of Willow River, in central British Columbia...
    13 KB (1,327 words) - 05:51, 16 September 2024
  • Giscome Canyon is a canyon on the Fraser River in the northern Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, upstream from the city of Prince George near...
    715 bytes (75 words) - 02:49, 20 November 2019
  • The Giscome Portage was a portage between the Fraser River and Summit Lake, which connected with the river route to the Peace Country via Finlay Forks...
    7 KB (805 words) - 12:02, 13 May 2024
  • 1927 01952 Fraserview Elementary Prince George 1–6 001956 01978 Giscome Elementary Giscome K–7 1916 or 1919 current Gladstone Elementary l Prince George...
    91 KB (3,117 words) - 01:36, 21 April 2024
  • confluence, close proximity to the Salmon River, and being handy to the Giscome Portage, made it a strategic location. The Cariboo, Barkerville & Willow...
    110 KB (12,313 words) - 20:03, 22 September 2024
  • Leaders. Connecticut: Greenwood. pp. 588-589. ISBN 0-313-22565-6. Lucille Giscome, Man of the People: The Story of A.A. MacLeod (Toronto: Danetta Press [1943])...
    17 KB (1,842 words) - 02:55, 12 August 2024
  • 7.83 Old Cariboo Highway in Prince George Hwy 16 east of Prince George Giscome Road — 02017-01-012017 Former alignment of Hwy 16 Highway 941:1577 60.76...
    94 KB (1,333 words) - 10:43, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fraser River
    running northwest past 54° north, it makes a sharp turn to the south at Giscome Portage, meeting the Nechako River at the city of Prince George, then continues...
    38 KB (3,778 words) - 00:30, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prince George, British Columbia
    heliskiing. Parks include: North of Prince George is the Huble Homestead and Giscome Portage. The Otway Nordic Centre, operated by the Caledonia Nordic Ski...
    98 KB (10,934 words) - 18:15, 1 October 2024
  • Hwy 97A ​ 742.31 461.25 Upper Fraser Road (Highway 941:1577) – Willow River, Giscome, Upper Fraser McBride 933.97 580.34 McBride Bridge over the Fraser River...
    25 KB (1,876 words) - 20:00, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of British Columbia Provincial Parks
    2016-03-03. "Foster Arm Protected Area". BC Parks. Retrieved 2016-03-03. "Giscome Portage Trail Protected Area". BC Parks. Retrieved 2016-03-03. "Goguka...
    234 KB (615 words) - 16:50, 23 July 2024
  • Columbia Fraser Canyon, British Columbia French Bar Canyon, British Columbia Giscome Canyon, British Columbia Grand Canyon of the Stikine, British Columbia...
    29 KB (2,218 words) - 15:40, 20 August 2024
  • Quensellemouthe, Robert Giscome, explored and established a major route to the Peace River Gold Rush at what became known as Giscome Portage, connecting the...
    4 KB (498 words) - 00:46, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dunster, British Columbia
    apps.gov.bc.ca. Retrieved February 16, 2017. Sedgwick, J. Kent (2008). Giscome Chronicle: The rise and demise of a sawmill community in central British...
    9 KB (211 words) - 05:53, 16 September 2024
  • Bahamas, by way of California) and his partner John Giscome (originally from Jamaica; see Giscome Portage). McDame Creek was the site of an 1877 find...
    5 KB (158 words) - 20:44, 2 October 2024
  • Skeena River and a fourth route used the Fraser River and crossed over the Giscome Portage to Summit Lake, through McLeod Lake, and up the Finlay River to...
    20 KB (2,892 words) - 17:55, 29 August 2024
  • The water tower stood at Mile 87.2. Toward the end of the steam era, Giscome and Hutton were the two assigned water stops on a Prince George-McBride...
    43 KB (4,211 words) - 17:13, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
    tons. Two men crewed each end. The Goat River Rapids, Grand Canyon, and Giscome Rapids, were extremely dangerous, with wrecks and drownings common. Dismantlers...
    21 KB (2,511 words) - 20:10, 20 September 2024
  • were transient. However, year round work existed in sawmill towns such as Giscome, Aleza Lake, Hutton, Penny and Longworth. The first sawmill was built about...
    61 KB (5,679 words) - 18:06, 22 September 2024
  • spring 1966. Towed through heavy mud and deep holes by bulldozers near Giscome, three buses brought eastbound passengers from Prince George, and returned...
    107 KB (11,388 words) - 15:40, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for C. S. Giscombe
    connected to features of land and water." 1998 Carl Sandburg Award for Giscome Road. 2008 American Book Award for Prairie Style 2010 Stephen Henderson...
    6 KB (483 words) - 23:52, 25 August 2024
  • George River Georgetown Mills Gifford (within the City of Abbotsford) Giscome Gitanyow (within the Gitanyow 1 Indian Reserve) Glen Lake Glenannan Glenemma...
    110 KB (5,935 words) - 10:07, 24 December 2023
  • 0 km) north of the Willow River confluence, heavy grades exist in the Giscome Rapids country. To find an alternative route, a survey party in the 1906...
    103 KB (11,853 words) - 05:51, 16 September 2024
  • were transient. However, year round work existed in sawmill towns such as Giscome, Aleza Lake, Hutton, Penny, and Longworth. Injuries and death were common...
    96 KB (10,879 words) - 18:48, 22 September 2024
  • Fraser River in British Columbia Fraser Canyon Grand Canyon of the Fraser Giscome Canyon BCGNIS listing "Fort George Canyon Park (park)" BCGNIS listing "Fort...
    2 KB (119 words) - 00:23, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Portages in North America
    the United States and Canada so named are: Cranberry Portage, Manitoba Giscome Portage, British Columbia Grand Portage, Minnesota Neyaashiinigmiing 27...
    6 KB (731 words) - 19:42, 19 February 2023
  • Herald: 31 Dec 1913, 14 Jan 1914 & 23 May 1914 Sedgwick, J. Kent (2008). "Giscome Chronicle (1912–1976)". www.docplayer.net. p. 4, but scan p. 16. Prince...
    26 KB (2,526 words) - 21:04, 9 October 2024
  • Hope Fraser Valley History Local history Huble Homestead Historic Site Giscome Portage Fraser-Fort George Open air website, includes Huble House, Salmon...
    74 KB (673 words) - 07:10, 23 June 2024
  • regularly advertised their weekly passenger and freight motorboat service to Giscome Portage, which connected with the waterways to the Peace Country via Finlay...
    62 KB (7,242 words) - 05:52, 16 September 2024
  • George became adequate for cars, but the lack of a gravel supply between Giscome and Hansard delayed ballasting. By 1937, this road was gravelled to four...
    53 KB (5,635 words) - 17:04, 22 September 2024