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Lorne Creek is a creek in the Omineca Country region of west central British Columbia, which enters the Skeena River from the west. [1] Henry McDame discovered gold in this creek in 1884, leading to placer mining. [2]

At the creek mouth, the former mining hamlet of Lorne Creek in the Skeena region, [3] lying between Terrace and Hazleton, was by rail about 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of Dorreen and 19 kilometres (12 mi) south of Cedarvale.

The post office operated intermittently 1913–1927. [4] During this period, the place was an unofficial Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) flag stop. [5]

In 1940, when an embankment subsided, the locomotive, tender, and a freight car, of an eastbound train plunged about 9 metres (30 ft) into the raging creek, resulting in five deaths. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Lorne Creek (creek)". BC Geographical Names .
  2. ↑ N.L. Barlee (1980). The Guide to Gold Panning, Revised Second Edition, Second Printing. Canada West Publications. ISBN   0-920164-04-8.
  3. ↑ "Lorne Creek". www.gent.name.
  4. ↑ "Postmasters". www.bac-lac.gc.ca.
  5. ↑ "1918 BC Directory". www.bccd.vpl.ca.
    to "1929 BC Directory". www.bccd.vpl.ca.
  6. ↑ "Prince George Citizen". pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca. 24 Oct 1940. p. 1.

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