- PAGEA-6, THE HERALD, sth ANNIVERSARY EDITION, Friday, July 29, 1977

A TERRACE HISTORY |

by E.T. KENNEY

Thehistory of Terrace has

-been intimately eonnected

‘with the history of

) transportation in the Skeena

. River Valley. In 1866 the

S.8. Mumford, the first

* steamboat on the Skeena

River, was attempting to

bring supplies up river for

the Collins Overland

Telegraph Company. She

got no further than the riffle

in the Skeena just south of

Terrace. Here she made a

cache of supplies to be

transported by canoe and

; the Terrace area served its

am first function as a
a) transportation link.

me ‘. By 1892 steamboals were

a regular occurrence on the &

' Skeena and many

setilemenis sprung up at

convenient steamboat stops.

: these were Eby’s

Landing boasted a
blacksmith shop, store and

‘hotel. To the éast of town
there was another

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Little.

. C.N.R. and old Skeena River
energy .. and, ;:.

steamboat stop, Thorphill's RB.
Bridge cross the muddy and _.

hdmestead,. twas from this - t
sioneer that the present day’ often turbulent river, On the
zommunity of Thornhill Terrace side and slightly
lakes its name. below the canyon another

Nearby was the little homesteader cleared land in
canyon where the present 1905. His name was George _

western:

sustain Terrace in its early

years,
At this time, slightly after
the turn of the century, the
“present site of Terrace was
ittle more than a couple of

- steamboat stops between
Port Essington, the port for

_ the Skeena River and
Hazelton, the head of
steamboat navigation. The
major settlement. was’

Bandwagon
and :
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It was chiefly-shig.\:Kiteels

Pacific Railway (later part
of the C.N.R.), which
started in 1906, all this was
to change.

Many speculators along
the Skeena started toting up
the_imagined profits they
would realize when they sold
and to the G.T.P. Among
these were the .people af

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