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]

  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.