Connaught Hill Park, accessible from Queensway Street and Connaught Drive, offers 360-degree views of Prince George and the surrounding “bowl” area. When you arrive atop Connaught Hill by vehicle, you follow a one-way circular road around the park’s hilltop perimeter. This article describes some of the views you’ll see along the way. Looking North (Viewpoint…
Did you know that Prince George is home to the largest art gallery in North-Central British Columbia, and that admission is free every Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.? Two Rivers Gallery is definitely worth a visit. The gallery’s three exhibition spaces showcase works by artists with regional, national and international roots. Exhibits change…
The section of Highway 97 stretching 405 kilometres between Prince George and Dawson Creek — called the John Hart Highway, or just the Hart Highway — is named after British Columbia’s 23rd premier, John Hart. Hart led a coalition government — BC’s first — from December 1941 to December 1947. A bespectacled man with a…
Prince George motorcycle enthusiasts held their first annual toy run — to collect and donate Christmas gifts for needy children — on the first Sunday of October, 1982. However, the inaugural charitable event didn’t initially generate the type of community reception that riders were hoping for. “We had a heck of a time giving away…
The mouth-watering promise of freshly-roasted chicken may have lured shoppers through the automatic sliding doors of Prince George’s new 17,000 square foot Overwaitea Foods grocery store when it opened for business on April 23, 1969. Located at 1601 Victoria Street, an address today occupied by Wholesale Sports, the bright new store featured Northern British Columbia’s first…
It was the end of an era. This week in 1915, the Hudson’s Bay Company closed, for good, its old “Fort George” trading post near the junction of the Fraser and Nechako Rivers. A fixture in the area for almost 110 years, the post was a catalyst behind the eventual development of the Prince George…
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