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Little Grizzly

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British Columbia. Former name
Former name of Cinnamon Peak
53.0797 N 119.2572 W Google — GeoHack
Not currently an official name.
This former name appears on:
Wheeler’s map Mount Robson 1912
Boundary Commission Sheet 32 (surveyed in 1922 &1924)

In 1911, Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945] named this mountain Little Grizzly Peak “on account of its resemblance, on a small scale, to Mount Grizzly in the Selkirks.” Cinnamon is a coloration of the grizzly bear.

References:

  • Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945]. “The mountains of the Yellowhead Pass.” Alpine Journal, Vol. 26, No.198 (1912):382

Lindup

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British Columbia. Railway Point
Canadian National Railway, SE of Longworth, NW of Guilford
53.8833 N 121.3667 W — Map 93H/14 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1911 (GTP map)
Name officially adopted in 1984
Not currently an official name
163 miles west of the Yellowhead Pass on the Canadian National Railway
Mile 75 in Fraser Subdivision (McBride to Prince George as of 1977)
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station built in 1914. The Lindup station was moved to Penny in 1947.
This railway point appears on:
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map [ca. 1912]
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway timetable 1914
Pre-emptor’s map Fort George 1G 1916
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map ca. 1918
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map 1919
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway stations

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
References:

  • Wrigley Directories, Limited. Wrigley’s British Columbia Directory. Vancouver: 1918. Internet Archive
  • Olson, Raymond W. Ghost Towns on the East Line. Prince George, B.C.: Raymond W. Olson, 2017

Lempriere

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British Columbia. Railway Point
Canadian National Railway, S of junction of Albreda River and North Thompson River
52.45 N 119.1333 W — Map 83D/6 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1917
Name officially adopted in 1962
Official in BC – Canada
88 miles west of the Yellowhead Pass on the Canadian National Railway
Mile 106 in Albreda Subdivision (Jasper to Blue River as of 1977)
Canadian Northern Railway station built in 1915
This railway point appears on:
Canadian National Railway map 1925
Lempriere Station, from the late 1970s/early 1980s. Photo by Brian Lempriere

Lempriere Station, from the late 1970s/early 1980s. Photo by Brian Lempriere
Real Royal Engineers

Arthur Reid Lempriere [1835–1927], a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, arrived in Esquimalt in 1859 with the main body of the Columbia Detachment, the third and largest group of Royal Engineers to come to British Columbia. In 1859 he explored the route from Hope to Lytton via the Coquihalla. Lempriere returned to England in 1863, and retired as Major General in 1882.

The Canadian Northern Railway laid tracks through the Valemount area in 1915 and Lempriere first appears on a map of 1917. The Lempriere post office was open from 1942 to 1945. Less than ten cancellation marks are known in collections. There was a Japanese internment camp here during World War II.

References:

  • Woodward, Francis M. “Influence of the Royal Engineers in the development of British Columbia.” BC Studies, (1974)
  • Topping, William. A checklist of British Columbia post offices. Vancouver: published by the author, 7430 Angus Drive, 1983
  • Akrigg, Helen B., and Akrigg, George Philip Vernon [1913–2001]. British Columbia Place Names. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997. Internet Archive
  • Lieutenant Arthur Reid Lempriere. 2006 The Real Royal Engineers. The Real Royal Engineers
  • Wikipedia. Arthur Reid Lempriere
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Legrand

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British Columbia. Railway Point
Canadian National Railway, between Rider and Lamming Mills
53.4167 N 120.3833 W — Map 93H/8 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1911 (GTP map)
Name officially adopted in 1983
Official in BC – Canada
103 miles west of the Yellowhead Pass on the Canadian National Railway
Mile 13 in Fraser Subdivision (McBride to Prince George as of 1977)
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway station built in 1914
This railway point appears on:
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway timetable 1914
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway map ca. 1918
Pre-emptor’s map Tête Jaune 3H 1919
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway stations

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.

References:

  • CN (Canadian National Railway). Transportation planning branch, Edmonton, and historical office, Montréal. 2000
  • Davies, David L. “Not ‘A Bridge Too Far’ But One Far Enough or How the G.T.P. Crossed the Fraser at Prince George, British Columbia.” Canadian Rail, No. 476 May-June (2000):67–82. Exporail
  • Olson, Raymond W. Ghost Towns on the East Line. Prince George, B.C.: Raymond W. Olson, 2017
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Lee Road

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British Columbia. Road
Intersects Hwy 16, W of Dunster
54.1585 N 119.8457 W Google — GeoHack

Ed Lee homesteaded in Dunster in 1915. After serving overseas in the First World War, he built up a farm, selling potatoes, carrots, and turnips to logging camps. He had the first team of horses in the Dunster area, and later owned one of the first cars around Dunster.

References:

  • Wheeler, Marilyn. The Robson Valley Story. McBride, B.C.: Robson Valley Story Group, 1979
  • Yellowhead Pass and its people. Valemount, B.C.: Valemount Historic Society, 1984