The name was submitted to the Geographical Board of Canada by Sir Alfred Smithers, chairman of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway during construction of the rail link. The post office opened in October, 1915.

Longworth is located 80 miles west of McBride, it was quite possibly named after an English village in Oxfordshire, UK., (speculation on my part). It may have been one of the place names suggested by Josiah Wedgwood.

— Olson

Wrigley Directories for 1918 lists Longworth as a post office and station on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Population 30. Local resources: Timber, prospecting, and a few small farms. There are no sawmills here and the district offers 25,000,000 feet which may be purchased cheaply from pre-emptors, while twice the amount is available on Government land adjacent to rail. Arthur E. Read was postmaster and ran the general store,and was also the first president of the Yellowhead Association around 1930.

The town of Longworth is on the map to stay. The place now boasts of a population of 100 residents, a good school, church, dance hall, store, post office and pool room. For awhile the settlement had a cabaret but it has been closed up and the piano taken away for repairs. In 1920 the post office was moved into the Toneko Lodge, a majestic wooden structure which also served as a hotel and general store.

— Prince George Citizen, February 28, 1924. Quoted by Olson

LINDUP: a settlement on the G. T. P. Ry., 5 miles west of Penny, no agent, in Prince George Provincial Electoral District. Has Canadian Express. Charges must be prepaid; tele- graph office.

Population 5. Local resources: Saw mills and mixed farming. Heavily timbered unbroken land about 3 miles distant from the mountains.

Address mail Lindup via Penny or Longworth.

Bochscski M section hand
Hall Harold farming
Jardine Carl section foreman
Jardine Chas farming
Lehman F farming
Persons G homesteader
Segel G lineman G T P

— Wrigley 1918

Torsten Berg was the only one to operate a sawmill at Lindup. The mill operated from 1949 to 1952, at which time his timber supply ran out and he moved the mill to Longworth. The timber at Lindup was of nice quality and of good size. Torsten was awarded the contract to supply planks 26 feet long, for the podium for Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1952.

The population of Lindup peaked at about 50 people in 1929 and dwindled dramatically the Depression. In 1931 the Prince George Citizen reported that a large relief camp of 100 men were clearing and grubbing road right of way.

Lindup in 2014 does not have any residents and is on a seasonal road that is susceptible to weather restrictions.

— Olson

The community was named after Joseph G. Legrand [1861-1923], a French-born engineer who designed and supervised the construction of all of the bridges on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Legrand emigrated to Canada in 1891. Between 1893 and 1903 he worked successively as a draftsman, checker, and designer of bridge work and in 1903 was appointed assistant chief engineer of the predecessor firm that became the Montreal Locomotive Works. He joined the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1906, at age 45, and assumed responsibilty for designing and overseeing the building of all the bridges on the new railway, thus becoming one of its senior managers.

Fourteen miles west of McBride, Legrand became a farming community. In 1921 six farmers lived there. The Legrand post office was open from August 1924 to June 1925, under postmaster Mrs. Janetta Somerville.