Lorne Creek

Lorne Creek is a creek in the Omineca Country region of west central British Columbia, which enters the Skeena River from the west.^[1] Henry McDame discovered gold in this creek in 1884, leading to placer mining.^[2]

At the creek mouth, the former mining hamlet of Lorne Creek in the Skeena region,^[3] lying between Terrace and Hazleton, was by rail about 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of Dorreen and 19 kilometres (12 mi) south of Cedarvale.

The post office operated intermittently 1913–1927.^[4] During this period, the place was an unofficial Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) flag stop.^[5]

In 1940, when an embankment subsided, the locomotive, tender, and a freight car, of an eastbound train plunged about 9 metres (30 ft) into the raging creek, resulting in five deaths.^[6]

See also

• List of rivers of British Columbia

References

1. "Lorne Creek (creek)". BC Geographical Names.
2. N.L. Barlee (1980). The Guide to Gold Panning, Revised Second Edition, Second Printing. Canada West Publications. ISBN 0-920164-04-8.
3. "Lorne Creek". www.gent.name.
4. "Postmasters". www.bac-lac.gc.ca.
5. "1918 BC Directory". www.bccd.vpl.ca.
   to "1929 BC Directory". www.bccd.vpl.ca.
6. "Prince George Citizen". pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca. 24 Oct 1940. p. 1.

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