2020 Visitors Guide Published
It’s that time of year again. We’re proud to have a hand in the development of this guide for visitors. If you’d like to download it here’s a direct link.
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Home Routes kicks off
We hosted Raine Hamilton and her Cellist this week – if you didn’t make it see the video at the bottom for an idea of what we were blessed to listen to. If you haven’t made it out to a Home Routes show (previously held in the Community Centre / Library) you really should. The…
Interpretive Trail Officially Open
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,…
Stonehammer featured in Reservoir Magazine
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…
Anna Willow Features our Region in Anthropology Today
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…
Emperor’s Challenge Geology
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.
2015 Geopark Recap With Dr. Charles Helm
Dr. Helm gave this presentation recapping the discoveries and goings on of the TRGG at the Tumbler Ridge Public Library on Jan 14, 2016.
Ridge Ramble X-Country Race this Saturday
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 …
Health Centre Becomes Part Of Downtown Walking Tour
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, World Wars I & II, and Place Names
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…