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Daily Archives: September 30, 2014

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The Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark: Where to from here?

GGN, TRUGG HistoryBy Tumbler Ridge Global GeoparkSeptember 30, 2014Leave a comment

  On September 22nd our Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark was officially designated by the Global Geoparks Network, supported by UNESCO, at the 6th International UNESCO Conference on Global Geoparks in Saint John, New Brunswick. We are one of 111 worldwide, the second in Canada and North America, and the first in the West. Elsewhere in…

100 Years Ago Near Tumbler Ridge – October 8, 1914: Gwillim Lake

TRUGG HistoryBy Tumbler Ridge Global GeoparkSeptember 30, 2014Leave a comment

In 1914 Samuel Prescott Fay led a party of five men and twenty horses on a scientific expedition from Jasper to Hudson’s Hope. On October 5th he passed below what is now Tumbler Ridge. Camped out the next night, near what is now known as Bullmoose Marshes, his party heard the blows of an axe.…

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