If you’ve ever travelled the Icefields Parkway between Jasper and Banff, you’ve undoubtedly seen those ubiquitous blue Brewster tour buses rolling along the road (see photo below right). But did you know that this iconic transportation company has been shuttling tourists around the Banff area for over 125 years — and that the company played…
During the last week of February, 1915, citizens of Prince George and other communities along the one-year-old Grand Trunk Pacific rail line from Edmonton to Prince Rupert received welcome news: mail cars would now be a regular part of all trains running east and west, a development that meant faster, more reliable mail service to…
The first train arrived in Prince George on January 30, 1914, three days after construction teams laid the track of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway west across the Fraser River and into town. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway was a government-subsidized venture, eventually connecting Winnipeg to Prince Rupert via Edmonton and the Yellowhead Pass. Construction…
Eyes were to the sky just after noon on Sunday January 16, 1938, as Prince George residents welcomed the first inbound flight of a new passenger air service from Vancouver. The weekly round-trip service, operated by Alberta-based United Air Transport (UAT), included stops in Williams Lake, Quesnel and Prince George before terminating in Fort St.…
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