Welcome to The GCPS ARCHIVE. This is your gateway to the biggest on-line repository of historical documents, pictures, and general information relating to the history of Granite Creek British Columbia.
Early Years
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Pack train at Granite Creek
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A group of men at Granite
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Granite from across the
Tulameen. Photo by George Dawson, July 23, 1888.
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Very detailed scan of the above. (large file - 6.1 MB)
Tulameen River, looking up
from opposite Granite. Photo by George Dawson, July 23, 1888.
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Placer mining
operations on Granite Creek. Photo by Charles Camsell, 1909.
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Granite Creek.
Photo by Charles Camsell, 1909.
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Wallace Hotel and Cook's store - ca 1888
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Granite Creek Hotel with patrons out front - courtesy Babe Norton
Granite Creek after the fire. Early Coalmont
in background. Barrie Cook photo.
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Granite Creek and Frenchy's cabin, ca 1890
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Granite Creek 1890
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Granite Creek townsite circa 1912
Granite Creek street along the river - after the fire
View along street - unclear
Granite Creek after fire - before 1912
Granite Creek 1901
People
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Bill Frew at Granite in
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On his left are Grandsons Bill and Roy Bilodeau. Roy is in the centre.
The boys' mother was Greta Frew, who was Bill Frew's daughter.
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Robert Stephenson at
Granite
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W. H. Holmes
Thomas Murphy
Sam Adler
Robert Stevenson
Granite Pioneers
"Judge" Thomas Murphy
Johnny Chance - circa 1890
Hugh Hunter and his Wife Jessie
Hugh Hunter - curtesy Princeton Museum Archives
Mrs. Holmes, panning
George Tunstall
Frenchy
Father Pat
F. P. Cook
Eleanor Irwin
The Cook Family
Mining
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Gold operation on Granite
Creek
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Hitting bedrock
Flume and wheel
Dredge, around 1930
Bridges
Third Bridge and Second Bridge being removed - courtesy Babe Norton
Second Bridge - courtesy Babe Norton
Foot bridge - courtesy Babe Norton
Foot bridge in winter
Third Bridge - circa 1915
Second Bridge - circa 1895
Remains of second bridge as seen from 3rd bridge
First Bridge - circa 1890
Artefacts and Miscellaneous
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Gold Scales originally owned by merchant, Foxcrowle Percival Cook at Granite Creek. Donated by his great-grandson, Tony Cook.
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Intact Granite Creek Hotel plate. Donated by Tony Cook (great-grandson of F.P. Cook)
A shard from a Granite Creek
Hotel dish. To date this is the only known piece from that set.
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