We left Kitimat today and finally, camera in hand, we saw a black bear run across the road in front of us. It's moved very fast. That's a car approaching behind it so you can see how large it was, heading into the bush. From May to August when the berries are plentiful, the bears are there eating all they can. Later in the year, the bears are on the river banks, eating all the salmon they can catch. Fishermen have to give up their favorite spots when the bears come to fish. It’s evident that we are just on the edge of the wilderness here. When Gisela went for her walk this morning, she was halfway across the parking lot to her front door, when a large black bear stood up behind the garbage bin scavenging, trying to open the top. Needless to say, Gisela backed up carefully and headed across the street until it lumbered back into the bush. We saw another one by Vanderfoof, then a deer by the roadside. A great wildlife sighting day for me.
We arrived in Prince George at 5:40 and parked at Sintich RV Park for 3 days. This large P.G. man is at the crossroads of Highway 16 E/W which intersects with Hwy 97 N/S. The original one was 40' tall, made of spruce wood in 1960 for the P.N.E. float and was a symbol of the importance of the forest industry here. This one replaced the old one in 1983 and is fiberglass and sheet metal and painted to look like wood.
Thousands of years ago the Carrier Indians settled here where the Fraser and Nechako rivers attracted the wildlife that supported them. Alexander McKenzie canoed past here in 1793 and Simon Fraser stopped in 1807 and built Fort George in recognition of King George 3rd. The settlers started with fur trading in early 1800’s and Pacific Great Eastern Railway linked the community to southern markets in 1952. After that progress picked up with the lumber industry, 3 mills and Prince George becoming in the administrative hub for the north half of the province. Today, Prince George has a population of 85,000 and is recognized as B.C.'s northern capital even though it's near the geographical center. This guarantees it's importance to the region as as the transportation, commercial, service and cultural centre.
We arrived in Prince George at 5:40 and parked at Sintich RV Park for 3 days. This large P.G. man is at the crossroads of Highway 16 E/W which intersects with Hwy 97 N/S. The original one was 40' tall, made of spruce wood in 1960 for the P.N.E. float and was a symbol of the importance of the forest industry here. This one replaced the old one in 1983 and is fiberglass and sheet metal and painted to look like wood.
Thousands of years ago the Carrier Indians settled here where the Fraser and Nechako rivers attracted the wildlife that supported them. Alexander McKenzie canoed past here in 1793 and Simon Fraser stopped in 1807 and built Fort George in recognition of King George 3rd. The settlers started with fur trading in early 1800’s and Pacific Great Eastern Railway linked the community to southern markets in 1952. After that progress picked up with the lumber industry, 3 mills and Prince George becoming in the administrative hub for the north half of the province. Today, Prince George has a population of 85,000 and is recognized as B.C.'s northern capital even though it's near the geographical center. This guarantees it's importance to the region as as the transportation, commercial, service and cultural centre.
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