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 This is your gateway to the biggest on-line repository of historical documents, pictures, and general information relating to the history of Granite Creek British Columbia.
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Roundup Magazine issue 273/2018.
BC Museums Association Roundup magazine article about Granite Creek
and the GCPS today.
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Application of F. P. Cook for 160 Acres of Land.
To an Order of the House for all correspondence ...
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1888-1892 Daily Colonist Newspaper articles relating to Granite
Creek.
Granite Creek continues to be in the news.
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Reuter article from 1921 about four miners returning to collect their platinum stash.
After 30 years, four Chinese men return to Canada and succeed in finding 6 pounds of platinum which they had hidden.
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Scapbook of 1887 newspaper articles.
Miscellaneous clippings from 1887 Daily Colonist relating to Granite Creek.
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Only The Bills Are Left.
Article in The Vancouver Sun, October 23, 1954, about the last residents. By R. H. Nichols.
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Daily Colonist - 1886 Excerpts
Scrapbook of Articles Relating to Granite Creek. From the 1886 Daily
Colonist Newspaper. (.pdf)
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Daily Colonist - 1885 Excerpts
Scrapbook of Articles Relating to Granite Creek. From the 1885 Daily
Colonist Newspaper. (.pdf)
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The Granite Creek Graveyard. Two articles by Diane Sterne, published in
The Similkameen News Leader: 1/
Etched In Time 2/
Anatomy of a Graveyard
Edward Cook Obituary - 2006
Ed Cook was the son of
Granite Creek Pioneer, Foxcrowle Percival Cook (.pdf)
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Granite almost had a coal plant.
Nicola Valley News 1910 -
"Modern Development Plant for the Coal Fields at Granite Creek" (.pdf)
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Bill Barlee and the $60,000 question.
Similkameen Spotlight - May 17, 1995 - Government to Develop Granite
for Tourism.
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Old Mining Camp Almost Blotted Out by the Swift Running
Flames. Government House, Hotel, Store and Postoffice Burned.
Granite Creek Fire - two newspaper stories from 1907
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More insight into Granite Creek people, and a resource for genealogists.
Collection of Obituaries
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Prospectors Manual - designed for the use of emigrants, tourists, sportsmen and
goldseekers. With full instructions on how to get there and what do do on arriving there.
Prospectors' Manual - P. L. Trout - 1886
Granite Creek gold mines (6.5MB pdf)
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Machine Gun Fund - 1915. In all, $116.30 was raised by the locals in Granite
Creek and Coalmont.
The Granite Creek Machine Gun Fund (pdf)
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The reminiscences of an early settler in the Similkameen country, from the
first issue of the 1905 Similkameenthe Hedley Gazette and Similkameen Advertiser.
In Days Gone By - from the 26th report of
the Okanagan Historical Society, 1962 (pdf)
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"Coffin Room" between the town sites of Granite Creek and Blakeburn.
The Coffin Room - by Diane Sterne. (pdf)
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