Finlay Forks (also called Finlay Junction  ), is the confluence of the Finlay River and Parsnip River. The Finlay Bay Recreation Site,Prince George Citizen, 11 Mar 1989 on the southeast bank, is about two miles southeast of the former settlement (on the earlier southeast bank) that is now submerged beneath Williston Lake. Like the river, it is named after explorer John Finlay.Prince George Citizen, 27 Jul 1983 The access road from Mackenzie is called the Parsnip West FSR (formerly Finlay Forks Road and Parsnip Forest Road).Prince George Citizen: 19 Mar 1973, 18 May 1979; & 19 , 21 Nov 1980 Four of the potential sites for the W. A. C. Bennett Dam were at the western end of the Peace River canyon near the Forks.Prince George Citizen, 28 Apr 1958 Originally, the dam and powerhouse were planned for the Finlay Forks-Wicked River (7 miles east) location . On drilling down 400 feet in the middle of the Peace River, the failure to reach solid rock identified an unbridgeable crevice.Prince George Citizen, 21 May 1991  Road & Rail Proposals The joint Peace Pass/Finlay Forks proposals form part of the Pine Pass highway and railway developments. A PGE link to a possible Alaskan rail route continued to include Finlay Forks.Prince George Citizen: 25 Nov 1948, 3 Mar 1949, 1 Sep 1949 & 31 Aug 1953 In 1965, an access road north from Highway 97 reached the settlement and construction commenced on the Manson Creek link.Prince George Citizen, 30 Mar 1965 A three-times-weekly road freight service with Prince George was soon implemented.Prince George Citizen, 13 Sep 1965 The 1966 PGE spur covered only the 23 miles to Mackenzie. Two general stores opened in 1913.Fort George Tribune, 20 Jun 1914 That year, the residents formed a community association and petitioned the postal authorities to rename the location as ‘Finparpea’, compiled from the first three letters of the three rivers. World War I superseded any action, and few returned to their holdings after the conflict. Prince George Citizen, 17 May 1928 In 1915, there were about 35 settlers, Fort George Herald, 9 Oct 1915 and the following year, the Fort Grahame band of Sekani established a reserve nearby. William Fox, the Hudson’s Bay factor (mercantile agent),Prince George Citizen, 14 May 1925 was the inaugural postmaster (1916-18) , with mail deliveries eight times each year.Prince George Citizen , 31 May 1916  During the 1920s, the  nucleus of a potential town comprised a few scattered cabins,Prince George Citizen, 7 Jul 1922 with Ole Johnson offering visitor accommodation.Prince George Citizen, 19 Jul 1928 In 1912, Louis Peterson  took up the first pre-emption at the Forks, Prince George Citizen, 17 May 1928 was postmaster (1926-29) , and ran a trading store until his death at about 81. Prince George Citizen , 1 Jun 1933 The remaining storekeeper,Prince George Citizen, 19 Apr 1934 Alan (alternatively Alex) McKinnon, was also a fur trader,Prince George Citizen, 28 Jul 1938 postmaster (1920-25; 1930-43) , and a mine owner.Prince George Citizen, 5 Sep 1940 Replenishing his supplies in the summer of 1940, he trucked the 50-ton load from Prince George to Summit Lake, from where it was boated to the Forks.Prince George Citizen, 13 Jun 1940 The annual fur auction held at Finlay Forks, comprised many trappers and drew in commercial buyers.Prince George Citizen: 22 May 1941, 19 Mar 1942, 18 May 1944 & 16 May 1946 By the 1950s, the Caucasian population numbered four, two of whom were Roy  & Marge MacDougall , who ran the trading post and provided visitor accommodation. Marge was also the volunteer first aid attendant for the Sekani and passing itinerants.Prince George Citizen, 27 Oct 1952 Arriving in the 1920s, the couple farmed,Prince George Citizen , 21 Jun 1928 to 9 Aug 1928 and Marge served as postmaster (1943-46, 1948-58). They sold up in 1957,Prince George Citizen, 28 Feb 1957 and Roy lived to 97.Prince George Citizen, 23 Nov 1984 The post-office closed in 1959. In 1967, a one-room school opened. Prince George Citizen    &  , 29 Dec 1967 During the following  summer, Bud Stuart operated a coffee shop and general store from a tentPrince George Citizen, 14 Jun 1968 that evolved into permanent premises.Prince George Citizen: 13 Jun 1969 & 13 Aug 1969 The school was a challenge for maintenance crews, being at the northern tip of School District 57.Prince George Citizen, 7 Jan 1969 Closing in 1971, the three portable buildings were removed.Prince George Citizen, 3 Dec 1971 By 1973, Bill Bloor ran the general store.Prince George Citizen, 17 Jan 1973 %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% The Finlay Bay Cabins,Prince George Citizen, 15 Sep 1994 operated by Kelly Brothers, no longer exist. In 1936, a shortwave radiotelephone station opened, which operated in conjunction with a series of similar stations in northern BC and the Yukon.Prince George Citizen: 30 Apr 1936, 27 Aug 1936 & 24 Sep 1936 The following year, United Air Transport (UAT) inaugurated a scheduled monthly passenger/freight/mail service for nine months of the year.Prince George Citizen: 10 & 24 Jun 1937; 12, 19 & 26 May 1938; %DIFDELCMD < & %%% 23 Jun 1938   A half-gallon ice cream consignment was the first occasion it was served in the community.Prince George Citizen, 22 Jul 1937 By 1938, the dominion postal inspector’s annual visit to Finlay Forks and the surrounding post-offices took five days by air, compared with the previous 40 days by boat.Prince George Citizen, 17 Mar 1938 UAT, renamed Yukon Southern Air Transport (YSAT), scheduled a Christmas  mail run.Prince George Citizen, 24 Dec 1940 Moving under the joint control of YSAT and Canadian Airways in 1941,Prince George Citizen, 6 Mar 1941 the passenger/mail runs continued monthly.Prince George Citizen: 28 Nov 1946, 20 Mar 1947 & 10 Jul 1947 By the 1950s, Central B.C. Airways carried the nine mail deliveries for the year, the radiotelephone station had become redundant and closed, and the community’s two-way radio was dependent upon weather conditions. Prince George Citizen, 27 Oct 1952 When a plane crashed on making an emergency landing near Finlay Forks in 1950, the pilot and the three passengers survived.Prince George Citizen, 31 Aug 1950 Santa would come by plane, but sometimes the weather delayed the event until after Christmas.Prince George Citizen, 30 Dec 1952 With flight cancellations, several months of newspapers might arrive together.Prince George Citizen: 12 Jan 1953 & 21 Jan 1954 In 1930, A. J. Jank was appointed game warden for the Finlay River district, with his headquarters in the forestry cabin at Finlay Forks.Prince George Citizen, 27 Nov 1930 Vic Williams replaced him the following year.Prince George Citizen: 27 Aug 1931 & 25 Aug 1932 Vic and a colleague rescued two men from a capsized boat in the Finlay Rapids, but a third person drowned.Prince George Citizen, 15 Sep 1932 In 1933, he was appointed coroner in conjunction with his ten-month-each-year game warden role.Prince George Citizen, 22 Jun 1933 During the late 1930s, A.J. Jank ,Prince George Citizen, 1 Apr 1937 and Sidney G. Copeland,Prince George Citizen, 6 Jul 1939 held the game warden position. In 1940, Sidney apprehended Edward Bird (alias Byrde) at Deserter’s Canyon on a charge of bigamy and surrendered him to a police constable for escorting to Prince George.Prince George Citizen: 30 May 1940 & 18 Jul 1940 In 1944, after a social confrontation, Alex Prince  murdered trappers Eugene Messmer, 33, and then Hans Pfeuffer, 43, at their cabin in the vicinity. Found in Prince’s cabin were Messmer’s gold watch, handmade briefcase, rifle, valuable cameras, film, stolen furs and fur stretchers. Based on this evidence, Game Warden A.J. Jank executed an arrest on separate charges. The coroner’s court reached an open verdict.Prince George Citizen: 16 & 24 Mar 1944; & 6 Apr 1944 Alex Prince, Sekani First Nations, 21, stood trial,Prince George Citizen, 14 Sep 1944 but damaging inadmissible statements made by a witness prompted a mistrial.Prince George Citizen, 28 Sep 1944 At his retrial, Prince was found guilty of murdering Messmer and a stay of proceedings was entered in a second murder charge in the death of Pfeuffer.Prince George Citizen, 7 Jun 1945 After an unsuccessful appeal on the grounds of diminished capacity, he was hanged.Prince George Citizen, 8 Nov 1945 In 1964 and 1965, rifle shots wounded separate members of the Poole family on the Finlay Forks reserve.Prince George Citizen: 28 Aug 1964, 30 Apr 1965 & 3 May 1965 In a 1968 shooting incident at a family reunion, May Egnell  died, and another woman and boy were injured. The incident arose after a verbal exchange during an intoxicated episode. While Joe Egnell, husband of the deceased was in a physical altercation with Murphy Porter, their wives May and Mary, and Bessie Tomah, were fighting. Although May had pulled a knife, Bessie, 26, was found guilty of manslaughter and received a three-year sentence.Prince George Citizen , 14 & 16 Aug 1968; & 14, 15 & 19 Nov 1968 In 1948, Joe Egnell’s father, McDonald, and youngest brother, Tony, died, the former of exposure and the latter of pneumonia. His mother trekked 80 miles in cold winter weather to bring her two children to safety. Game Warden A. J. Jank and Const. Lyle Oleson conducted the investigation, and Frank identified his father’s body.Prince George Citizen: 18 Mar 1948 & 11 Dec 1999 In 1971, Frank Egnell, 43, shot Keon Pierre, 56, following an argument at Finlay Forks. Convicted of manslaughter, he was sentenced to two years less a day.Prince George Citizen, 10 Dec 1971 Mining & Farming A great deal of mining occurred in the surrounding mountains, rivers and creeks. Fort George Tribune, 20 Jun 1914Prince George Leader, 16 Jun 1922Prince George Leader, 14 Jul 1922 The increasing market for produce was anticipated to expand farming in the immediate area.Prince George Citizen: 17 May 1928 & 22 Nov 1928 Larry Canty acquired 20,000 acres in 1929 for agricultural development.Prince George Citizen, 7 Mar 1929 However, the lack of rail lines and roads hampered mining activities.Prince George Citizen: 17 Feb 1938, 19 Oct 1939, 25 Jul 1940, 17 Apr 1941, 16 Jul 1951, 30 Oct 1952, 8 Dec 1952, 8 Dec 1952 & 15 Apr 1954 The 1957 site selection for the W. A. C. Bennett Dam confirmed the flooding would submerge many mining and industrial development properties.Prince George Citizen, 7 Mar 1957 Forestry By the mid-1910s, the BC forestry department maintained a headquarters at Finlay Forks,Prince George Star, 10 Nov 1916 which in due course served a fire ranger role. Prince George Citizen, 7 Jul 1922 The forest ranger station operated after World War II,Prince George Citizen, 17 Jun 1948 and an assistant ranger station was built in 1964.Prince George Citizen , 3 May 1985 In the mid-1960s, logging contracts were let for those valleys north, south and east of the Forks, which would be flooded by the dam.Prince George Citizen: 3 & 6 Apr 1963 Donald Adems (Adams alternate spelling), a forestry service engineer on the project, had been the first Caucasian child to live at Finlay Forks.Prince George Citizen, 8 Jul 1964 The forest service established a centre of operations at Finlay Forks. Rising faster than anticipated, the dammed waters created vast logjams and half-submerged trees. Prince George Citizen, 14 Jun 1968 In this environment, two tugboat companies and about 25 private logging contractors conducted one of the largest timber salvage operations in North America. At the Forks, Finlay Navigation operated a dispatch base, and Carrier Lumber a sawmill. Prince George Citizen, 7 Jul 1969 Sheriffs’ sales of assets occurred to settle unpaid wages of Yarkon Industries and workers compensation liabilities of Ashlea Timber at Mile 74½.Prince George Citizen: 12, 14 & 20 Aug 1969 In 1969, the bush mills disappeared from the pondage area and the first log boom reached Mackenzie from the Finlay drainage. Prince George Citizen, 3 May 1985 By 1971, further timber salvaging became uneconomical,Prince George Citizen, 8 Feb 1971 and Carrier relocated all its operations from Finlay Forks to Mackenzie.Prince George Citizen, 1 May 1999  Category:Ghost towns in British Columbia Category:Defunct seaplane bases in British Columbia %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Category:Northern Interior of British Columbia Category:Omineca Mountains Category:Hudson's Bay Company forts Category:Sekani peopl
Finlay Forks (also called Finlay Junction and sometimes misspelt Findlay ), is the confluence of the Finlay River and Parsnip River. The Finlay Bay Recreation Site,Prince George Citizen, 11 Mar 1989 on the southeast bank, is about southeast of the former settlement (on the earlier southeast bank) that is now submerged beneath Williston Lake. Like the river, it was named after explorer John Finlay.Prince George Citizen, 27 Jul 1983 The access road from Mackenzie is called the Parsnip West FSR (formerly Finlay Forks Road and Parsnip Forest Road).Prince George Citizen: 19 Mar 1973, 18 May 1979; & 19 21 Nov 1980 Four of the potential sites for the W. A. C. Bennett Dam were at the western end of the Peace River canyon near the Forks.Prince George Citizen, 28 Apr 1958 Originally, the dam and powerhouse were planned for the Finlay Forks-Wicked River junction east . On drilling down 400 feet in the middle of the Peace River, the failure to reach solid rock identified an unbridgeable crevice.Prince George Citizen, 21 May 1991 When his 15-tonne logging truck broke through the ice in the vicinity, Brian Wykes URL drowned.Prince George Citizen, 28 Jan 1982 Road & Rail Proposals The joint Peace Pass/Finlay Forks proposals form part of the Pine Pass highway and railway developments. A PGE link to a possible Alaskan rail route continued to include Finlay Forks.Prince George Citizen: 25 Nov 1948, 3 Mar 1949, 1 Sep 1949 & 31 Aug 1953 In 1965, an access road north from Highway 97 reached the settlement and construction commenced on the Manson Creek link.Prince George Citizen, 30 Mar 1965 A three-times-weekly road freight service with Prince George was soon implemented.Prince George Citizen, 13 Sep 1965 The 1966 PGE spur covered only the to Mackenzie. Two general stores opened in 1913.Fort George Tribune, 20 Jun 1914 That year, the residents formed a community association and petitioned the postal authorities to rename the location as ‘Finparpea’, compiled from the first three letters of the three rivers. World War I superseded any action, and few returned to their holdings after the conflict. In 1915, there were about 35 settlers, and the following year, the Fort Grahame band of Sekani established a reserve nearby. William Fox, the Hudson’s Bay factor (mercantile agent),Prince George Citizen, 14 May 1925 was the inaugural postmaster 1916–18 , with mail deliveries 6–8 times each year.Prince George Citizen : 31 May 1916 24 Jun 1921 During the 1920s, The Northern Trading Co. also operated a post,Prince George Citizen, 30 Apr 1920 Hugh M. Gibson was a storeowner, and the population was about 12.Prince George Citizen: 24 Jun 1921 2 Jul 1925 The nucleus of a potential town comprised a few scattered cabins,Prince George Citizen, 7 Jul 1922 with Ole Johnson offering visitor accommodation.Prince George Citizen, 19 Jul 1928 In 1912, Louis Peterson URL who took up the first pre-emption at the Forks, was postmaster 1926–29 , and ran a trading store until his death . Prince George Citizen : 24 Sep 1918 1 Jun 1933 The remaining storekeeper,Prince George Citizen, 19 Apr 1934 Alan (alternatively Alex) McKinnon, was also a fur trader,Prince George Citizen, 28 Jul 1938 postmaster 1920–25 and 1930–43 , and a mine owner.Prince George Citizen, 5 Sep 1940 Replenishing his supplies in the summer of 1940, he trucked the 50-ton load from Prince George to Summit Lake, from where it was boated to the Forks.Prince George Citizen, 13 Jun 1940 The annual fur auction held at Finlay Forks, comprised many trappers and drew in commercial buyers.Prince George Citizen: 22 May 1941, 19 Mar 1942, 18 May 1944 & 16 May 1946 By the 1950s, the Caucasian population numbered four, two of whom were Roy URL George Citizen, 23 Nov 1984 & Marge URL McDougall , who ran the trading post and provided visitor accommodation. Marge was also the volunteer first aid attendant for the Sekani and passing itinerants.Prince George Citizen, 27 Oct 1952 Arriving in the 1920s, the couple farmed,Prince George Citizen : 21 Jun 1928 to 9 Aug 1928 and Marge served as postmaster 1943–46 and 1948–58. They sold up in 1957,Prince George Citizen, 28 Feb 1957. the post-office closed in 1959, and they left 1960/61. Prince George Citizen : 2 Jun 1960 4 Apr 1961. The school was a challenge for maintenance crews, being at the northern tip of School District 57.Prince George Citizen, 7 Jan 1969 Catering to logging crews and Sekani, the two classrooms comprised an Atco-style singlewide structure for the primary grades, and a doublewide for the intermediate ones. The Carrier Lumber campsite provided water, power and sewer connections for the classrooms and teacherage. Operating 1968–1971, student enrolments ranged 20–27. Hall, Barbara; Pallo, Rose (2010). School District No. 57 (Prince George) historical memories. (Volume II): people, places, programs& services. Prince George Retired Teachers' Association, Education Heritage CommitteePrince George Citizen , 29 Dec 1967 On closure, the three portable buildings were removed.Prince George Citizen, 3 Dec 1971 During the 1968 summer, Bud Stuart operated a coffee shop and general store from a tentPrince George Citizen, 14 Jun 1968 that evolved into permanent premises.Prince George Citizen: 13 Jun 1969 & 13 Aug 1969 By 1973, Bill Bloor ran the general store.Prince George Citizen, 17 Jan 1973 %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% The Finlay Bay Cabins,Prince George Citizen, 15 Sep 1994 operated by Kelly Brothers, no longer exist. In 1936, a shortwave radiotelephone station opened, which operated in conjunction with a series of similar stations in northern BC and the Yukon.Prince George Citizen: 30 Apr 1936, 27 Aug 1936 & 24 Sep 1936 The following year, United Air Transport (UAT) inaugurated a scheduled monthly passenger/freight/mail service for nine months of the year.Prince George Citizen: 10 & 24 Jun 1937; 12, 19 & 26 May 1938; %DIFDELCMD < & %%% 23 Jun 1938 ; 9 May 1940 A half-gallon ice cream consignment was the first occasion it was served in the community.Prince George Citizen, 22 Jul 1937 By 1938, the dominion postal inspector’s annual visit to Finlay Forks and the surrounding post-offices took five days by air, compared with the previous 40 days by boat.Prince George Citizen, 17 Mar 1938 UAT, renamed Yukon Southern Air Transport (YSAT), scheduled a Christmas 1940 mail run.Prince George Citizen, 24 Dec 1940 Moving under the joint control of YSAT and Canadian Airways in 1941,Prince George Citizen, 6 Mar 1941 the passenger/mail runs continued monthly.Prince George Citizen: 28 Nov 1946, 20 Mar 1947 & 10 Jul 1947 By the 1950s, Central B.C. Airways carried the nine mail deliveries for the year, the radiotelephone station had become redundant and closed, and the community’s two-way radio was dependent upon weather conditions. When a plane crashed on making an emergency landing near Finlay Forks in 1950, the pilot and the three passengers survived.Prince George Citizen, 31 Aug 1950 Santa would come by plane, but sometimes the weather delayed the event until after Christmas.Prince George Citizen, 30 Dec 1952 With flight cancellations, several months of newspapers might arrive together.Prince George Citizen: 12 Jan 1953 & 21 Jan 1954 In 1930, Alfred (Alf) Jank URL was appointed game warden for the Finlay River district, with his headquarters in the forestry cabin at Finlay Forks.Prince George Citizen, 27 Nov 1930 Vic Williams replaced him the following year.Prince George Citizen: 27 Aug 1931 & 25 Aug 1932 Vic and a colleague rescued two men from a capsized boat in the Finlay Rapids, but a third person drowned.Prince George Citizen, 15 Sep 1932 In 1933, he was appointed coroner in conjunction with his ten-month-each-year game warden role.Prince George Citizen, 22 Jun 1933 During the late 1930s, Alf ,Prince George Citizen, 1 Apr 1937 and Sidney G. Copeland,Prince George Citizen, 6 Jul 1939 held the game warden position. In 1940, Sidney apprehended Edward Bird (alias Byrde) at Deserter’s Canyon on a charge of bigamy and surrendered him to a police constable for escorting to Prince George.Prince George Citizen: 30 May 1940 & 18 Jul 1940 In 1944, after a social confrontation, Alex Prince URL murdered trappers Eugene Messmer, 33, and then Hans Pfeuffer, 43, at their cabin in the vicinity. Found in Prince’s cabin were Messmer’s gold watch, handmade briefcase, rifle, valuable cameras, film, stolen furs and fur stretchers. Based on this evidence, Game Warden Jank executed an arrest on separate charges. The coroner’s court reached an open verdict.Prince George Citizen: 16 & 24 Mar 1944; & 6 Apr 1944 Alex Prince, Sekani First Nations, stood trial,Prince George Citizen, 14 Sep 1944 but damaging inadmissible statements made by a witness prompted a mistrial.Prince George Citizen, 28 Sep 1944 At his retrial, Prince was found guilty of murdering Messmer and a stay of proceedings was entered in a second murder charge in the death of Pfeuffer.Prince George Citizen, 7 Jun 1945 After an unsuccessful appeal on the grounds of diminished capacity, he was hanged.Prince George Citizen, 8 Nov 1945 In 1964 and 1965, rifle shots wounded separate members of the Poole family on the Finlay Forks reserve.Prince George Citizen: 28 Aug 1964, 30 Apr 1965 & 3 May 1965 In another shooting incident at a family reunion, May Egnell URL died, and another woman and boy were injured. The incident arose after a verbal exchange during an intoxicated episode. While Joe Egnell, husband of the deceased was in a physical altercation with Murphy Porter, their wives May and Mary, and Bessie Tomah, were fighting. Although May had pulled a knife, Bessie, 26, was found guilty of manslaughter and received a three-year sentence.Prince George Citizen : 14 & 16 Aug 1968; & 14, 15 & 19 Nov 1968 In 1948, Joe Egnell’s father, McDonald, and youngest brother, Tony, died, the former of exposure and the latter of pneumonia. His mother trekked 80 miles in cold winter weather to bring her two children to safety. Game Warden Jank and Const. Lyle Oleson conducted the investigation, and Frank identified his father’s body.Prince George Citizen: 18 Mar 1948 & 11 Dec 1999 Frank Egnell, 43, shot to death Keon Pierre URL following an argument at Finlay Forks. Convicted of manslaughter, he was sentenced to two years less a day.Prince George Citizen, 10 Dec 1971 Mining & Farming A great deal of mining occurred in the surrounding mountains, rivers and creeks. Prince George Leader, 16 Jun 1922Prince George Leader, 14 Jul 1922 The increasing market for produce was anticipated to expand farming in the immediate area.Prince George Citizen: 17 May 1928 & 22 Nov 1928 Larry Canty acquired 20,000 acres in 1929 for agricultural development.Prince George Citizen, 7 Mar 1929 However, the lack of rail lines and roads hampered mining activities.Prince George Citizen: 17 Feb 1938, 19 Oct 1939, 25 Jul 1940, 17 Apr 1941, 16 Jul 1951, 30 Oct 1952, 8 Dec 1952, 8 Dec 1952 & 15 Apr 1954 The 1957 site selection for the W. A. C. Bennett Dam confirmed the flooding would submerge many mining and industrial development properties.Prince George Citizen, 7 Mar 1957 Forestry By the mid-1910s, the BC forestry department maintained a headquarters at Finlay Forks,Prince George Star, 10 Nov 1916 which in due course served a fire ranger role. The forest ranger station operated after World War II,Prince George Citizen, 17 Jun 1948 and an assistant ranger station was built in 1964.Prince George Citizen : 25 May 1962 3 May 1985 In the mid-1960s, logging contracts were let for those valleys north, south and east of the Forks, which would be flooded by the dam.Prince George Citizen: 3 & 6 Apr 1963 Donald Adems (Adams alternate spelling), a forestry service engineer on the project, had been the first Caucasian child to live at Finlay Forks.Prince George Citizen, 8 Jul 1964 The forest service established a centre of operations at Finlay Forks. Rising faster than anticipated, the dammed waters created vast logjams and half-submerged trees. In this environment, two tugboat companies and about 25 private logging contractors conducted one of the largest timber salvage operations in North America. At the Forks, Finlay Navigation operated a dispatch base, and Carrier Lumber a sawmill. Sheriffs’ sales of assets occurred to settle unpaid wages of Yarkon Industries and workers compensation liabilities of Ashlea Timber at Mile 74½.Prince George Citizen: 12, 14 & 20 Aug 1969 In 1969, the bush mills disappeared from the pondage area and the first log boom reached Mackenzie from the Finlay drainage. By 1971, further timber salvaging became uneconomical,Prince George Citizen, 8 Feb 1971 and Carrier relocated all its operations from Finlay Forks to Mackenzie.Prince George Citizen, 1 May 1999 On rolling his skidder, operator Vincent Broad was fatally crushed URL Category:Ghost towns in British Columbia Category:Defunct seaplane bases in British Columbia %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Category:Northern Interior of British Columbia Category:Omineca Mountains Category:Hudson's Bay Company forts Category:Sekani peopl
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