Granite Creek Preservation Society

new Roundup Magazine issue 273/2018.
BC Museums Association Roundup magazine article about Granite Creek and the GCPS today. [00]

Application of F. P. Cook for 160 Acres of Land.
To an Order of the House for all correspondence ... [00]

1888-1892 Daily Colonist Newspaper articles relating to Granite Creek.
Granite Creek continues to be in the news. [00]

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. [00]

Scapbook of 1887 newspaper articles.
Miscellaneous clippings from 1887 Daily Colonist relating to Granite Creek. [00]

Only The Bills Are Left.
Article in The Vancouver Sun, October 23, 1954, about the last residents. By R. H. Nichols. [00]

Daily Colonist - 1886 Excerpts
Scrapbook of Articles Relating to Granite Creek. From the 1886 Daily Colonist Newspaper. (.pdf) [00]

Daily Colonist - 1885 Excerpts
Scrapbook of Articles Relating to Granite Creek. From the 1885 Daily Colonist Newspaper. (.pdf) [00]

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) [00]

Granite almost had a coal plant.
Nicola Valley News 1910 - "Modern Development Plant for the Coal Fields at Granite Creek" (.pdf) [22]

Bill Barlee and the $60,000 question.
Similkameen Spotlight - May 17, 1995 - Government to Develop Granite for Tourism. [100]

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 [102]

More insight into Granite Creek people, and a resource for genealogists.
Collection of Obituaries [103]

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) [105]

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) [00]

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) [00]

"Coffin Room" between the town sites of Granite Creek and Blakeburn.
The Coffin Room - by Diane Sterne. (pdf) [00]