The GCPS is a registered society dedicated to preserving the history, site, and memory of Granite Creek, BC. Membership is open to all.


DOCUMENTS AND LINKS





Additional GCPS pages
Granite Creek at the Princeton Museum
Granite Townsite in Later Years [104]

Records
Voters List - 1898 Granite Creek (.pdf) [00] [00]
CENSUS CANADA 1901: Granite Creek (.pdf) [16] [15]
CENSUS CANADA 1911: Yale #55: Similkameen (.xls) [17] [15]
Links to CENSUS CANADA transcriptions for 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921 [15]
Minfile placer report for Granite Creek property - 1885-1915 (.pdf) [20]
Report on Waggon Roads - BC Sessional Papers 1886 - Granite excerpt (.txt) [21]
Nicola Valley News 1910 - "Modern Development Plant for the Coal Fields at Granite Creek" (.pdf) [22]
Granite Creek gold production report - 1885-1945 (.pdf) [23]
Granite Creek Postmasters (.pdf) [24]
Granite Creek Listings in Directories and Gazettes (.pdf) Warning: 12.4MB [25]
Granite Creek in Directories and Gazettes - Some Observations [26]
Similkameen Spotlight - May 17, 1995 - Government to Develop Granite for Tourism. [100]
Granite Creek Fire - two newspaper stories from 1907 [102]
Collection of Obituaries [103]
Prospectors' Manual - P. L. Trout - 1886 Granite Creek gold mines (6.5MB pdf) [105]
Granite Creek land title files, 1907-1958. Some comments. (pdf) [106]
Granite Creek land title files, excerpts from 1922-1953. Describes residents in 1953. (3.9MB pdf) [106]
Prospectors of Granite Creek from 1885 to 1895. Notes on list. (pdf) [107]
Prospectors of Granite Creek from 1885 to 1895. List compiled from mining reports. (pdf) [107]
The Granite Creek Machine Gun Fund (pdf) [00]

Biographies
George Christie Tunstall (.pdf) [00] [00]
Emma Woodward-Cook (.pdf) [00] [00]
Catherine Dunn-Parker-Austin - A Woman at Granite (.p [00] [00]
Memoirs of Hugh Hunter - Notes of conversations, 1930. (pdf) [108]
Memoirs of Walton Hugh Holmes (1852 - 1940) [28]
Notes of conversation with Thomas Herbert Murphy, at Tulame July 18, 1930. [27]

Letters
From Jessie Hunter (née Olding), Granite Creek, Aug. 29, 1898 To Jessie McQueen (transcription) [29]
From Jessie Hunter (images of letter) [29]
From M.J. Donovan to friend at Boston and BC Mining Company - 1898 (transcription) [101]
From M.J. Donovan - 1898 (image of letter) [101]

Images
Wallace Hotel and Cook's store - ca 1888 [30]
Granite Creek 1890 [31]
Granite Creek and Frenchy's cabin, ca 1890 [32]
Granite Creek after the fire. Early Coalmont in background. Barrie Cook photo. [33]

Maps
Old Granite Creek Townsite Map [40]
Granite Creek Townsite Map - 1985 [41]
Coalmont, Blakeburn, Tulameen - Department of National Defence Map - 1939 [42]
Survey map of Granite Creek Lots 394, 731 and 781 - 1922 [43]

Links
Granite Creek History website - from Mozey-On-Inn
Granite Creek Cemetry Index and Map - from Mozey-On-Inn
Granite Creek Cemetry photos - Ancestry Dot Com
MINFILE Record Summary: GRANITE CREEK PLACER
Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen (RDOS) information on heritage sites
Princeton and District Museum and Archives
BC Archives

BIBLIOGRAPHY [00]



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