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Earlier today we were proud to host elders from the McLeod lake Indian Band, Mayor Keith Bertrand, and our partners the Tumbler Ridge Community Forest to open a new trail behind the Visitor’s Centre. The trail is wide and smooth and features several interpretive signs informing visitors of the history of the area, the geology,…
The CSPG featured our friend’s at Stonehammer UNESCO Global Geopark in their most recent edition of Reservoir. This is fantastic exposure for Canadian Geoparks from the premier organization of Canadian Energy Geoscientists. The article does a great job of recognizing the wide purview and reach of Geoparks stating, “They developed as much more than places…
We’re happy to share this article from Antropology Today on the Northeast BC Region. Professor of Anthropology Anna Willow has done a great job covering a huge time frame from the Dane-zaa, Cree and Saulteau people, through the first western explorers, the modern resource extraction in the area and finally the Site C dam. Many…
The Emperor’s Challenge is only a week away & we’ve got a bit of info on the geology of the race route below. You can also download the document here.
Dr. Helm gave this presentation recapping the discoveries and goings on of the TRGG at the Tumbler Ridge Public Library on Jan 14, 2016.
Starts 11am @ Tumbler Ridge Golf Course on the Lost Haven Cabin trails (part of the TR Trail). Entry Fee – $5 per individual or $10 per family – pay on race day Distances – Elementary School – 1.3 km; Junior High – 3 km; High School Girls – 4.7 km; All Others 6 km …
The north-west wall of the Tumbler Ridge Health Centre features a row of forty sizeable windows. As of August 12th these windows feature eleven large colour images (each spanning two or three windows) of healthy aerobic activity in the Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark. Taken by local photographers, the images feature diverse activities: ice climbing, cross…
Tumbler Ridge was built in the 1980s, when memories of World War II were already forty years old. Therefore it is perhaps counter-intuitive to learn that our community’s connections with the two World Wars are profound. WORLD WAR I: In 1914 Samuel Prescott Fay led a party of five men and twenty horses…
Three recent articles in Tumbler Ridge News have celebrated the centennial of the 1914 Samuel Prescott Fay expedition and the beginning of our written history. Fay led a party of five men and twenty horses on a scientific and exploratory expedition from Jasper to Hudson’s Hope, passing through what is now the Tumbler Ridge area.…
In 1914 Samuel Prescott Fay led a party of five men and twenty horses on a scientific expedition from Jasper to Hudson’s Hope. Part of his journey took him down what would become known as the Murray River. On October 5th he passed below what is now Tumbler Ridge. His diary entry provides the first…
