Willow River, British Columbia

Willow River, British Columbia
Community
Location of Willow River in British Columbia
Coordinates: 54°04′00″N 122°28′00″W / 54.06667°N 122.46667°W / 54.06667; -122.46667Coordinates: 54°04′00″N 122°28′00″W / 54.06667°N 122.46667°W / 54.06667; -122.46667
Country Canada
Province British Columbia
Land District Cariboo
Regional District Fraser-Fort George
Geographic Region Robson Valley
Area code(s) 250, 778

Willow River is a community located northeast of Prince George, on the northeast bank of the Willow River, one and a half miles southeast of the confluence with the Fraser River, in central British Columbia. The name derives from the many willow swamps in the river valley.[1][2] Comprising about 150 residents,[3] it has a general store/post-office, a volunteer fire department, church building and a small community hall. Street map[4]

Transportation

It is a flag stop for Via Rail's Jasper – Prince Rupert train.[5] The immediate Via Rail stops are Prince George to the southwest and Aleza Lake to the east.

History

Pioneer Forestry & Farming

The river confluence, close proximity to the Salmon River, and being handy to the Giscome Portage, made it a strategic location.[6] The Cariboo, Barkerville & Willow River Railway (CB&WR) proposed to link Barkerville and Eagle (Eaglet) Lake. In its 1909 Annual Report, the Willow River Timber Co. (WRT) highlighted the line’s value in accessing the company’s logging rights in the upper reaches of the Willow River. In 1910, the company, planning a mammoth sawmill at the river mouth, raised $1.5 million from European investors[7][8] for the highly speculative venture.[9] The CB&WR never eventuated. Asset sales followed the 1922 WRT receivership.[10]

By 1911, J.M. Wiley (Wylie alternate spelling), a Winnipeg grain operator had 50 acres of his cleared land under cultivation.[11] Tenant farmers worked the ranch,[12] which straddled the river mouth.[13]

Two pioneer farmers in the area were Ralph McVoy and C.T. Harvie (Harvey alternate spelling).[14] McVoy was also involved in railway tie contracting.[15] In 1934, retired from farming,[16] his body was discovered in the Fraser River near Shelley.[17] A coroner's jury returned an open verdict on his death from a rifle wound inflicted by a person unknown,[18] but locals suspected murder.[19] Charlie Harvie arrived about 1912, joined by his brother Fred in 1914, whose family followed the next year. Charlie sold his farm near the river mouth to W.H. Fairis,[20] who became known for his fine hay, grain and vegetable crops.[21] His strawberries were popular,[22] and the potato yields prolific on his preemption.[23] Though the influenza epidemic infected his whole family, they all survived.[24] By the time the Royal Bank successfully sued him for failing to honour a promissory note,[25] he had sold his property,[26] and returned permanently to Illinois.[15]

In 1915, American entrepreneur A.C. Frost built a sawmill.[27] The following year, when a forest fire driven by high winds threatened to destroy the town and sawmill, every available man (assisted by an additional 100 men dispatched on a special train from Prince George) successfully contained it.[28] Such fires were an ever-present danger.[29] The never used sawmill was dismantled and moved to Giscome in December.[30]

In 1917, the Northern Lumber Co. opened a mill.[31] When destroyed by fire in 1919, the lumber piles, outbuildings, boilers and engines escaped damage.[32] The rebuilt mill had a 20,000-foot-daily capacity.[33] Enlarged to 32,000, the mill was sold, dismantled and moved to Hansard,[34] but entrepreneurs continued to produce railway ties.[35]

In the 1920s, Fred Burden harvested hay and wheat on his mixed farm, while Tom Standing kept dairy cows, raised chickens and bred rabbits.[36][37]

Harold John & Emily Alice Brown, who arrived in 1924, had one daughter, Ruth and two sons, William (see #Social & Religion) and Percy. Instead of cows on their farm, they kept goats, and their goat cheese was renowned. They plowed with mules not horses and kept bees. They grew marrows, squash and pumpkins, rather than the usual peas and corn. Alice’s knitting machine, the first in the community, produced woolen clothing for the family. Harold died at 65 in 1942, whereas Alice died at 95 in 1980, having lived there for 56 years.[38]

In 1927, an employee at the Cooke Lumber Co. near Willow River, who sustained a foot-long gash to his chest when he fell against a saw, made a satisfactory recovery.[39] The 10,000-foot capacity sawmill relocated the following year.[40][41] In 1926, Etter & McDougall opened the Willow River Lumber Co.’s 30,000-foot capacity mill,[42] located near today’s Laidlaw Rd.[43] Busy during the late 1920s,[44] production slumped across the industry during the early Great Depression.[45] After the mill burned to the ground in 1932,[46] the company used the Newlands mill.[47] Smaller mills also operated during this era.[48]

The narrow strip of accessible spruce forest bordering the railway that stretched some 100 miles east of Prince George was known as the East Line.[49]

Railway Construction & Speculation

In 1912, a Victoria-based syndicate, acquiring a speculative parcel on the southwest bank of the Willow River, publicized a 2,500-lot subdivision called "Willow City" on the soon coming Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) and at the terminal for the proposed Pacific & Hudson Bay Railway (P&HB).[50] Although, the proposed P&HB passed no closer than 20 miles away,[51] the locality was a possible terminus for an unlikely branch line crossing the Fraser,[52] but no track ever eventuated in any direction. Tree clearing carved out the planned streets the following year.[53] Averse to enriching existing land speculators, the GTP conducted a site inspection on the opposite bank,[54] and contracted to have the 40 acres cleared by Christmas.[55] Further lots were surveyed,[56] and cleared.[57] Warning prospective buyers not to confuse their 640-acre development with the syndicate’s one two miles away from the planned station, the GTP began marketing their real estate.[58][59]

In response, the syndicate renamed its parcel as "Willow River",[60] and then further defined the location as "the only townsite registered as Willow River".[61] Either their acquisition of the land between the two developments,[62] or legal pressure, amended it to "next to the GTP townsite of Willow River".[63] The devious marketing practices created some buyer remorse among naïve faraway investors.[64] Most of the premium lots with river frontage are now merely river silt.[65] Meanwhile, the GTP weekly advertisements publicized their land as "the only one official and original GTP town of Willow River".[66] Based in South Fort George, F.W. Crawford, the BC manager of the GTP's Transcontinental Townsites Co.,[67] was also secretary-treasurer of the chamber of commerce[68] and a director of the Herald.[69] The start of World War I saw land prices tumble.[70] The syndicate lots never became more than rural and the GTP ones never attained the significance promised by the promoters. Of the surveyed GTP town, only the western quadrant was developed,[71] and the demand for lots evaporated.[72] The local newspaper, the Willow River Times, experienced a brief existence.[73][74] By 1920, only nine families remained.[75]

Willow River is situated at Mile 127.0, Fraser Subdivision.[76][77] (about Mile 216.5 during the line’s construction). The hospital, near the mouth on Hospital Creek,[78] was at Mile 217. The 17-mile railway right-of-way contract, completed by J.M. Kullander (Collander alternate spelling) during 1912/13,[79] operated from camps at Miles 208 and 217,[80] and encompassed Willow River, Giscome and Newlands.[81] The camp, photographed,[82] received some supplies from Prince George,[83] but most came down the Fraser River.[84] The unprecedented low water limiting navigation on the Upper Fraser (which beached steamboats)[85] made it impossible to transport steam shovels downstream in 1912. Fortunately, the Collander contract was primarily light work through considerable muskeg.[79] In the following springtime, a large force was at work, but much of the unfinished grade was submerged.[86] In late summer, near the D.J. Carey (Siems, Carey & Co.) camp southwest of the river mouth at Mile 220, the single firing of over 200 tons of explosives demolished a solid rock hill.[87][88] The previous winter, an employee at Carey’s camp, who suffered frostbite when lost, had both his feet amputated at the GTP hospital.[89]

In May 1913, two local settlers drowned in a canoeing accident on the Fraser reef below the Willow. In the Upper Fraser, this location, the Giscome Rapids, the Grand Canyon, and the Goat River Rapids, were extremely dangerous and believed to be the scenes of numerous drownings.[90] In July, a scow[91] loaded with 17 tons of rails and dump cars, was cut free from its moorings at Willow River and drifted downstream until it was deliberately maneuvered onto a sandbar 30 miles north of Quesnel.[92] The Prince George-Willow River sternwheeler service provided a destination for day excursions,[93] and an indispensable link until the railway service became reliable.[94]

Willow River, like Shelley to its southwest, and Giscome to its east, was an original train station (1914) on the GTP[95][96] (the Canadian National Railway after nationalization). Tracks were laid across the railway bridge on 31 Dec 1913,[97] having reached the town site the previous day.[98]

In 1920, three miles to the west, a freight locomotive derailed and submerged in the Fraser River.[99]

The station became a flag stop around 1960,[100][101][102] a regular stop by the mid-1960s[103] and a flag stop by the mid-to-late 1970s.[76] The facility, at the foot of Willow St.,[104][43] had a 700-foot freight platform.[71][105] Vandals destroyed the abandoned building in the 1960s.[106] Built in 1914, the standard-design Plan 100‐152 (Bohi’s Type E)[107][108] structure was demolished in 1969. An unidentified freight and the passenger shelter, relocated from Decker Lake that year, remained into the 2000s.[109]

Retail Commerce

Roy Spurr maintained a store and accommodation in the vicinity during the railway construction.[110] Billy and Gezine Gair, residents 1913–20, ran a boarding house and later a store,[111] but the family memories do not mention these ventures.[112]

Charles Hannan was the inaugural postmaster (1914–16), followed by Alex E. Brown (1916–19),[113] who moved to Giscome.[114][20]

John & Jane Newsome operated a café, laundry and rooming tents at the GTP Jasper and Tête Jaune construction camps. Settling in Willow River in 1914, they continued their café and rooming business (a laundry already existed), augmented by a log-construction store on the east corner of Gwen and Willow. In 1917, John opened a new store in Giscome and later built stores in Newlands and Shelley. He was the Willow River postmaster (1919–57),[114] a role commonly performed by a storeowner in such towns. In 1938, he built the existing two-storey store on the east corner of Railway and Willow.[70][43] Ruby, their only child, married Harold Pennington in 1941,[115] and the couple purchased the store in 1945,[116] but John remained as postmaster.[70] Holding the post until his death in 1957 at 76,[117] he had received an overdue 25-year service medal the prior year.[118]

In 1952, the Pennington store was enlarged to over 1,200 feet and 30 new boxes added to a modernized post-office.[119] Home Oil gas pumps stood outside.[120] Harold was postmaster (1946, 1957–63).[114] At this time, the town had two stores and a poolroom.[121] In 1961, Jane, the eldest Pennington daughter, married George Pacholok.[122] Two years later, when George & Jane Pacholok took over the Pennington store, Harold & Ruby Pennington, with their daughters Judy and Jackie, moved to Prince George,[123] and Jane became postmaster (1963–66).[114] In 1966, after 52 years in the same family, a series of owners followed.[124] Jane Newsome died in 1971 at 88,[125] Ruby in 1973 and Harold in 1982.[116]

Acquiring the Willow River General Store were: Steve & Evelyn (Lyn) Sanesh (1966), she being postmaster (1966–68); Art & Helen Cardinal (1967), she being postmaster (1968–69); Doug & Elizabeth Bailey (1968), she being postmaster (1968 & 1969); Elton & Yvonne McComber (1969), she being postmaster (1969–90s); Argyle & Jeanette Robertson (1977); Bob & Margaret Bradner (1978); and Claude & Wanda Stubely (1981).[114][126] Entering its final years as an Esso outlet,[127] Kevin Dunphy bought the store in 1985.[128][129] Since 2008, he has been an elected regional district director for Willow River-Upper Fraser.[130][131]

John & Adeline Crawford built their hotel on the north corner of Railway and Willow, in Block 44[71] (now a children's playground). In March 1914, there were plans for two modern hotels, one of which was to be three-storey.[67] The GTP planned a 130-foot by 130-foot hotel on the south corner at where the surveyed straight River Ave. would have intersected Willow St., in Block 47.[132][71] By April, a hotel (assumedly the Crawford) and a rooming house were under construction.[133] Prior to these ventures, on the northwest side of Willow, in Block 45 (Gwen-Reta), an establishment called the Willow Hotel sought a liquor licence.[134]

The Crawford hotel underwent extensive alterations in 1921,[135] which added an adjoining building, with the former section rented as living quarters.[136] Under the name, the Willow River Hotel, Patrick Foisy applied for a liquor licence,[137] and then as the Crawford Hotel, John H. Crawford reapplied,[138] but his name is not mentioned after 1934.[139] A grocery store[140] and barbershop operated on the premises, but a fire in 1946 burned the buildings to the ground, saving only a warehouse to its northwest.[136] A BC Forest Service pumper crew from Giscome could only prevent the blaze from spreading to surrounding properties.[104] In 1948, work commenced on a complete rebuild of the hotel.[141] The following year, Adeline Crawford died intestate in her small store under circumstances that initially appeared suspicious.[142] The construction project never proceeded and the framing collapsed.[143] The Official Administrator disposed of her substantial rural and township real estate holdings.[144]

A two-storey residence on the corner of Railway and Coonsey had its own history. It served successively as the A.E. Brown post-office and store, private dwelling (Raines’ residence for a period), community hall (opened 1925),[145] and private dwelling for Mrs. Crawford after the fire.[136] The building was moved to the main street in the mid-1930s. When John Newsome, the new owner, tore it down in 1955, it was one of the few remaining buildings from 1915.[146]

In various eras, Mr. Calhoon, Ralph McVoy (inside the Crawford store), and Mike Chorney operated barbershops. The latter also had a bathhouse for his lumber industry clientele.[147]

For a few years in the late 1950s, Katherina & Shorty Barager operated a store and poolroom on the east corner of Railway and Coonsey.[148][149]

Lawrence Keeler, whose teenage daughter, Hazel, had died in a motor vehicle accident,[150] remarried in 1957. Opened that year, Lawrence and Gladys operated a B.A. gas station for five years in front of their residence on Railway Ave.[151][152] Gladys, formed the calorie counters club, serving as president.[153] The following year, Lawrence celebrated his 81st birthday.[154] Gladys would live to 84.[155]

Willie Carman Brown (assumedly unrelated to the other William Brown) was a motorcycle enthusiast.[156] A partner[157] in Brown’s Texaco Garage,[158] 600 metres south of the highway bridge, his wife opened a café in 1963.[159] The short-lived venture, located next-door to the south, was known as Annie’s Café. [160] Lorraine Klitch ran Lorri’s Inn, a café with pool tables, on the premises for a few years up to 1973.[161] Trading as Willow River Service,[162] Yogi Sharma owned and operated this business as an independent gas station from the early 1990s[163] until it closed in 2008.[164] In 1992, his son, Aman, had rescued him in a boating accident and was awarded the highest lifesaving honor in BC.[165]

Education

Mr. Allen conducted the first school in a tent. William Walter Charles O’Neil was the inaugural teacher at the first official school, a one-roomed log building opened in 1915 on the south corner of Lee and Coonsey.[166][167] In 1921, the building was upgraded,[168] but suffered some damage in a 1945 fire.[169] The second school, which replaced it, was a two-roomed building with basement, on the east corner of Gwen and Willow,[43] where the Newsome store was formerly located.[170] Having 30 pupils,[171] it opened in 1948,[172] with a further classroom added six years later.[173] In 1955, the school comprised 54 pupils to Grade 10,[174] after which students attended senior high school in Prince George.[175] In 1957, fire damage closed the school for six weeks.[176] In subsequent years, insufficient space meant higher grades were bussed to Giscome Superior.[177] During 1960/61–1962/63, enrolments at Willow River averaged 57.[178] In 1962, a stucco exterior was added, the roof repaired and an oil-burning furnace installed.[179] In 1963/64, the school became Grades 1-6[180] with an enrolment of 61.[181] The following and final year,[182] it solely comprised 38 pupils in Grades 1-2, with bussing to Giscome of Grades 3-8 and Prince George of Grades 9-13.[183] School District 57 disposed of the surplus school site in 1984.[184]

Social & Religion

From its beginning, surrounding communities were invited to the regular social and dance evenings.[185]

In 1920, Rev. Harry Raines, a church-planting Baptist preacher arrived.[75] Two years later, he opened a church building on the south corner of Muriel and Willow that he financed and built himself.[186][43] Prior to this, Sunday services were held in the school.[187] Although there had been a little-used cemetery north of the town, in 1938, he obtained a new official site[75] near the mineral springs, west of the current highway and south of the railway tracks. These bodies were exhumed in 1969 and reburied in Prince George.[160]

Holding services in the school were the Lutherans during the 1920/30s,[188] the United Church during the 1940s,[189] and the Brethren in the 1950s.[190]

Over the years, 90 percent of the town’s children passed through the Baptist Sunday school.[191] In 1953, at 84, Raines still conducted services, having never drawn a salary from the church. He collaborated with the Salvation Army from Prince George,[75] who would both be involved in the Baptist services as well as hold their own in the church building during the 1940s and 1950s.[192] He died in 1959 at 89. Renamed the Willow River Gospel Chapel,[193] the old building was too small by 1970. Fundraising,[194] volunteer labour, and using materials from the demolished community hall, the new building opened on the east corner of Muriel and Coonsey in 1972. Subsequent pastors averaged three-year terms and a trailer, acquired for their accommodation, was financed by a loan.[195] A Pioneer Girls club operated.[196] Raines’ wife, Mattie, died in 1974.[197] In 1982, the 82-member congregation paid off the $13,000 mortgage. Pastors from Village Missions served from 1969,[198] but the pastorate is currently vacant.[199]

Of the two key women’s groups in existence, the Home League (WRHL), formed in 1949, revolved around an evangelical Christian core, and the Ladies Auxiliary, formed in 1953, followed a more conservative position. The League conducted an annual service in the church.[200] The League’s weekly meetings focused upon supporting missions work and providing an opportunity to acknowledge milestones in members’ lives. The group held fundraising events to benefit the disadvantaged both locally and overseas.[201] Although the women were supportive of the Salvation Army aims, only one or two were actual members of this denomination.[202] The Ladies Auxiliary (LA) also fundraised for community causes, hosted social events,[203] and supported the Scout cub activities.[204] The PTA, active for several years, was dissolved into this group, and the advantage of combined League and Auxiliary activities noted.[205]

In 1922, Bessie, a daughter of Rev. Raines, married Harry Smith.[206] Bessie was the first organist at the church and was a Sunday school teacher.[207] She was the inaugural WRHL secretary (1949–59),[208] and a delegate to the Convention in Toronto.[209] She was the founding Girl Guide captain (1952),[210] but the group receives no mention after 1956.[211] In 1959, she departed for Mile 98 (McGregor) to join her husband.[212]

In 1938, Naomi, daughter of Mattie Raines and stepdaughter of Rev. Raines, married William Brown.[213] During the final years of Rev. Raines’ life, he served as the part-time pastor and led the church services.[214] Naomi was the inaugural WRHL chaplain from 1949,[215] and led the local Women’s World Day of Prayer.[216] Starting in 1953 with 12 boys,[217] she led the Scout cub pack.[218] Average attendance was 15 boys.[219] The PTA[220] and then LA sponsored the cubs.[204] A Scout troop, with Arnold Weld as scoutmaster,[221] followed by Harold Pennington, operated 1956–58, after which the boys transferred to an Elks troop in Prince George, because no leader was available.[222] 1960 is the final reference to Naomi as cubmaster[223] or of this pack’s continuation. A cub pack existed throughout the 1970s.[224] Known as the Scouts (11th Fort George), they won the Adrian Award in 1975.[225] During the early 1990s, the 11th Scout beaver and cub groups operated for three years under the leadership of Betty-Anne Penner.[226] Predeceased by Naomi, William "Buster" Brown, died at 94 in 2010.[227]

Carl William Strom, born in Sweden, arrived in 1923. He introduced skiing as a sport to the community.[228] On the death of his wife Helga in 1932, Ruth Brown came to care for the children.[229] Married in the mid-1930s, their 15-month-old Lawrence William (Frederick?) accidentally ingested gasoline and died.[230][231] Divested of their sawmill in 1942,[232] they focused on the farm,[233] but held social dances in the barn.[234] After the War, he resumed sawmilling.[235] Ruth was a charter member of the WRHL from 1949,[215] and a delegate to the Convention in Toronto.[209] She was the founding Girl Guide Brownie leader (1952–54).[210] Various leaders followed,[236] but the group does not appear to have existed after 1962.[237] Active in the Salvation Army for the final four years of his life, Carl William Strom died at 68 in 1963.[238] In 1967, Ruth married Walter Cunningham.[239] In 2011, Ruth Cunningham, predeceased by both husbands, died at 94.[240]

A new community hall opened in 1949[241] on the south corner of Reta and Willow.[43] The furnace, installed almost a decade later, ameliorated wintertime use of the building.[242] Social events were held for teenagers in the hall or school.[243] When the dilapidated hall was demolished in 1970,[244] the population estimate of 500 seems overstated.[194] People had dispersed after the mills closed and the remaining residents drove to jobs in Giscome.[106] The Willow River Recreation Association (WRRA) was incorporated in 1971.[245]

Opened in 1980, the small hall at 49 Willow St. (diagonally opposite the general store) has been generally referred to as the community or seniors’ house.[246] The WRRA organized the homecoming reunion, held August 4–6, 1984, for former residents, from which the book of memories was compiled.[247] House numbering was implemented in 1989.[248] The deeply divisive 1993 referendum to build a larger more functional community hall was narrowly defeated.[249] In 2012, the Willow River East Line Activity Centre, a combined community hall and gymnasium, was promised as a replacement for the existing 450-square-foot hall.[250] This facility was instead placed in Giscome after the decision to rebuild the school there.[251]

Road Transport

Although the wagon road from Prince George via Six Mile (Tabor) Lake reached the west bank of the Willow in 1915,[252] the actual bridge into the township was not constructed until the 1922/23 winter.[253] It aligned with the north-south section of Arnett Rd, this being the then access route. The road to Giscome, which then aligned with Gwen Ave,[43] was not completed until 1926.[254] The regular Prince George-Willow River-Giscome motor services for freight and passengers appear short lived.[255] In 1950, the river channel was dredged to redirect spring floodwaters from the northeast bridge approach,[256] and the prior bridge was replaced by a wooden truss one (at the existing location) in 1957.[257]

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Prince George Transit ran special buses three times a week between Prince George and McGregor,[258] which assumedly also stopped in Willow River. Near impassable in spring and fall,[259] the final seven miles of the road from Prince George to three miles beyond Willow River was finally paved in 1968.[260] The remaining section to Giscome received light paving during the 1970s. Railway and Coonsey were paved in the early 1980s.[106] Initially twice monthly,[261] then weekly, the handyDART service for seniors and the disabled was discontinued in 1987.[262] The bridge, upgraded in 1992,[263] collapsed a decade later under the weight of a loaded truck-trailer.[264] The temporary single lane steel bridge opened to limited traffic after three weeks,[265] and unrestricted traffic after five weeks,[266] is still in use. In response to damages sustained during the spring runoff, the pilings and approaches were upgraded in 2009.[267]

Public Safety

During 1914–16, the jail/police barracks, on the south corner of Gwen and Willow,[43] stationed Constable Henry N. Wood, of the BC Provincial Police. After he transferred to Vanderhoof,[268] the four-roomed cottage became a residence.[269]

Ira & Oressa McComber arrived in 1943.[270] Two years later, older son Robert McComber assisted in the rescue of William & Naomi Brown's three-year-old daughter Carol from a well.[271] That year, Vernon McComber, their youngest son, married May McKee (Mrs. T.C. Warner’s daughter).[272] The following year, Vernon averted a CNR collision,[273] and his older brothers, Elton and Robert extinguished a neighbour’s chimney fire.[274] Elton enlarged the family café in 1947,[275] and Oressa managed the business[276] found on the east corner of Gwen and Coonsey.[43] May was a charter member of the WRHL from 1949,[215] and Brownie leader for a couple of years.[277] In 1959, a 15-minute hurricane-force wind, which overturned woodsheds and dislodged windows, dispersed her clothesline washing half a mile.[278] Oressa was a host and member of the WHBL.[279] Elton remarried [280] and managed the general store with wife Yvonne for eight years.[126] Yvonne also served as church secretary.[281]

Many residents lost their possessions when their houses burned to the ground.[282] Despite ongoing property losses, a 1989 referendum to form a volunteer fire department failed,[283] as did the one for new water system, the following year.[284] In 1994, arson was suspected in the burning of two vacant buildings.[285] By the early 1990s, a volunteer fire brigade had been formed,[286] but a firehall was not built until 2004. Destroyed by fire four years later, it was rebuilt to facilitate the 15-member brigade.[287] While properties continued to burn to the ground, the firefighters were able to keep the blazes from spreading.[288] A 2011 referendum approved a centralized sewer and water system.[289]

In 1999, the trailer, where children and teenagers had been drugged in making child pornography, burned to the ground.[290] Crystal Dianne Henricks, in custody since her arrest 26 months earlier, was sentenced to 13 years.[291] Reduced to seven years on appeal, she was released in 2004. Her common-law husband, James Darren Bennett, who received an indeterminate sentence,[292] was denied parole in 1915.[293] Calvin James Grexton, a co-accused, received three years.[294]

Trains regularly struck straying livestock.[295] When a fully laden Geddes lumber truck was demolished on the old highway level crossing in 1947, the driver escaped with only concussion and fractures.[296] A decade later, a pedestrian was not so fortunate.[297] After passing trains had destroyed 100 head of cattle between Willow River and Aleza Lake during 1958-63, the CNR erected protective fencing.[298] Passing in front of a moving train at the crossing, after failing to stop and properly check, a school bus narrowly missed harm.[299] In 1996, a train struck an unoccupied truck.[300]

In 1953, three-year-old Jimmy Laidlaw drowned in the frigid waters of the Willow River.[301] A sister was born later that year.[302] In 1958, Cindy Lou McLane went missing one morning. Despite a seven-day search by thousands of volunteers and a $500 reward, the two-year-old was never found.[303] In the 1960s, Lawrence Woiken, 19, drowned while wading with friends in the river.[304] Bruce Colebank, 17, who lost a hand when playing with dynamite,[305] received a prosthetic.[306] A truck fatally injured two-year-old Jimmy Walker.[307] Ralph Suvee was posthumously awarded the Queens Commendation for Brave Conduct for his attempt to rescue a victim from a well near the Upper Fraser Road/Yellowhead intersection.[308] Arriving with his family in 1960, his parents became longtime residents.[309] In 1982, four-year-old Jennifer Doherty drowned in a septic tank.[310]

With conditions similar to 1946,[311] locals pumped out their basements when the Willow River flooded in 1997.[312]

Post-1940s Forestry Industries

During World War II, the largest producer in the British Empire of birch veneer plywood for building the "Mosquito" warplane was the Pacific Veneer Co. of New Westminster.[313] Willow River shipped numerous railway carloads of birch logs to this factory.[314] In 1943, Pacific Veneer upgraded the railway siding. The Willow River Sawmill, which had run intermittently for three years, was completely rebuilt with a new planer.[315] H. Houle was lead partner in this 25,000-foot capacity mill opened in 1941.[316] At capacity the prior year,[232] the sawmill handled the strong demand for even hemlock and spruce under the mandate of the Timber Control Board.[317] However, the increased labour force put pressure on the housing supply.[318] In 1946, the foreman lost an arm in an industrial accident at the Willow River mill.[319] Lesser injuries occurred in subsequent years.[320]

At least from 1945, Percy Church Sawmills operated.[321] Located at the northwest end of Railway Ave., it had its own railway siding.[322] By 1950, the company ran two sawmills and a planer.[323] The following year, a falling tree killed a logger.[324] In 1954, a new dry kiln was added.[325] In 1958, the company dismantled and relocated their mill to north of Mile 98 (McGregor).[326]

Percy Church was appointed president of the Prince George and District Baseball Senior League in 1953 and managed the local team.[327][328] During the 1950s, the Willow River Red Sox either were champions,[329][330] or came second,[331] in the league and in a various tournaments.[332]

During the 1940s and 1950s, the Geddes planer mill operated on the east side of the north-south section of Arnett Rd (near the Willow River hill incline on the former highway).[333][43] A number of smaller sawmills existed in the area until the early 1960s.[334]

Electricity, Broadcast Transmissions & Communications Devices

By 1921, the railway was stringing telephone wires as far as Hutton, to connect Willow River with the outside world and mills and farms along the route.[335] Significant gaps, which remained into the following years,[336] prompted demands for lines separate from the railway’s ones.[337] Party lines ended for Willow River in 1966, when BC Tel installed 50 direct-dial phones.[124]

The Percy Church Sawmill provided electricity to many houses,[338] while some residents installed their own generators.[339] In 1961, Jane Newsome turned on the first light when BC Hydro extended distribution lines from Tabor Lake.[340] Streetlights came in 1988, after a referendum the previous year.[341]

CKPG-TV, of Prince George, commenced with partial programming in 1961.[342] A new transmitter, installed on Mount Tabor in 1964, improved reception for Willow River and Giscome.[343]


Footnotes

  1. ↑ Symons, Renee; Sedgwick, J. Kent; Morrow, Trelle A.; & Bogle, Anne Prescott. (1990). Postscript '90, Commemorating 75 Years of Postal History in the Fraser-Fort George Region. Fraser-Fort George Regional Museum, p. 52
  2. ↑ Akrigg, G.P.V. & Helen B. (1997). British Columbia Place Names. UBC Press. p. 296
  3. ↑ http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=DPL&Code1=590116&Geo2=PR&Code2=48&Data=Count&SearchText=Willow%20River&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All
  4. ↑ https://www.mapquest.com/canada/bc/willow-river-282173267
  5. ↑ "Willow River flagstop". VIA Rail.
  6. ↑ Ghost Towns on…, p. 31
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