Upper Fraser station

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Upper Fraser station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Upper Fraser, British Columbia. Via Rail's Jasper – Prince Rupert train calls at the station as a flag stop.[1][2]

History

Upper Fraser lies at Mile 104.0, Fraser Subdivision.[3][4] Previously designated as Mile 194 and the Hudson Bay Spur, it was the closest railway point east of Willow River for accessing the Fraser. During 1914, Edward Andrew Seebach (1880–1932)[5] (Seeback alternate spelling) and Albert James Huble (1872–1947)[6] (Hubble alternate spelling), and farmer[7] George McDowell, their agent, regularly advertised[8] their weekly passenger and freight motorboat service to Giscome Portage, which connected with the waterways to the Peace Country via Finlay Forks. Five years later, the opening of the Prince George–Summit Lake wagon road superseded this route.[9]

A steamboat service from Prince George operated into the 1920s. The spur also provided the best link to the outside world for mining and hunting activities to its north and northwest that encompassed the river and its tributaries. Unlike the unsafe and difficult Giscome Rapids[10] downstream, calm waters prevailed upstream to the spur.[11][12] However, winter freezing, limited river use to summer months.[13]

In May 1913, during the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction, the Smith and Ramsay camp was just northwest at former Mile 195, and their engineer, F. Purvis, was just southeast at former Mile 193.[14] Although variations of the name Hudson Bay Spur were in use until the 1930s,[15] the 1920 description as the Hudson Bay’s old spur suggests the actual spur had fallen into disuse by that time.[13] Largely known as Upper Fraser Spruce Mills from the early 1940s, the Canadian National Railway station was called Upper Fraser from 1964.

During the 1945/46 winter, when a brush with a freight train broke a moose's leg, a rifle shot put the hobbling animal out of its misery.[16] Rather than plunging into the deep snow flanking the roadbed, moose often ran ahead of trains for miles, which delayed services and hindered section crews (track maintenance).[17] Vicious moose not only challenged trains, but also charged children on their way to school,[18] or adults walking along the tracks.[19] During the 1948/49 winter, a snow plow travelling at Script error: No such module "convert". scooped up William John Zuck lying on the tracks. The plow train's crew car carried the victim to Prince George, where a hospital examination found no injuries.[20]

A westbound freight train instantly killed deaf George Whitford (1885–1965),[21] who was sitting upon the track at Upper Fraser.[22][23] The following year, a Script error: No such module "convert". washout west of Aleza Lake terminated a westbound passenger train at Upper Fraser. The mill cookhouse fed the passengers, who remained on board. Towed through heavy mud and deep holes by bulldozers near Giscome, three buses brought eastbound passengers from Prince George, and returned with the westbound ones.[24] In 1968, a railway accident cost H. Dyck two toes.[25]

In 1978, Upper Fraser was one of the 11 communities between Prince Rupert and the Alberta border, where the CNR replaced its agent-operator position[26] with a resident serving as a CN Express agent.[27]

Service 1943–c.1947 c.1948–c.1953 c.1954–c.1958 c.1959–1961 1961–c.1962 c.1963–1965 1965–1977 1977–present
[28][29][30] [31][32] [33][34] [35] [36][37] [38][39] [40][41][42][43]
[44][45][46]		 [3][47][48][49]
[50][51][52][53]
Passenger Flag stop Flag stop Flag stop Flag stop Flag stop Regular stop Flag stop
Way freight Flag stop probably Flag stop Flag stop Flag stop probably Flag stop Flag stop Regular stop

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  • Assumedly, a remeasurement confirmed the spur switch was closer to Mile 104.0


Footnotes

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  7. ↑ Fort George Herald, 9 Jan 1915
  8. ↑ Fort George Herald: 13 Jun 1914 to 26 Sep 1914
  9. ↑ Prince George Citizen: 8 Oct 1919 & 7 Jul 1922
  10. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  11. ↑ Prince George Leader, 24 Jun 1921
  12. ↑ Prince George Citizen, 13 Sep 1921
  13. ↑ a b Prince George Citizen, 20 Feb 1920
  14. ↑ Fort George Herald: 9 Nov 1912 & 17 May 1913
  15. ↑ Prince George Citizen: 23 Jun 1932, 7 Jul 1932 & 5 Mar 1936
  16. ↑ Prince George Citizen, 31 Jan 1946
  17. ↑ Prince George Citizen, 21 Feb 1946
  18. ↑ Prince George Citizen, 1 Aug 1946
  19. ↑ Prince George Citizen, 17 Aug 1985
  20. ↑ Prince George Citizen, 23 Dec 1948
  21. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  22. ↑ Prince George Citizen, 25 Jun 1965
  23. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  24. ↑ Prince George Citizen, 29 Mar 1966
  25. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  26. ↑ Prince George Citizen, 2 Aug 1978
  27. ↑ Prince George Citizen, 3 Oct 1978
  28. ↑ 1943 Timetable. Northern BC Archives. p. 9
  29. ↑ 1945 Timetable. p. 61.
  30. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  31. ↑ 1949 Timetable. p. 59.
  32. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  33. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  35. ↑ 1960 Timetable. Northern BC Archives. pp. 21–22
  36. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  39. ↑ 1964 Timetable. Northern BC Archives. p. 44
  40. ↑ 1965 Timetable. Northern BC Archives. pp. 25–26
  41. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  42. ↑ 1967 Timetable. Northern BC Archives. p. 38
  43. ↑ 1968 Timetable. Northern BC Archives. pp. 25–26
  44. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  45. ↑ 1972 Timetable. Northern BC Archives. pp. 25–26
  46. ↑ 1973 Timetable. Northern BC Archives. p. 18
  47. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  49. ↑ 1990 Timetable. Northern BC Archives. pp. 95–97
  50. ↑ 1992 Timetable. Northern BC Archives. pp. 103–105
  51. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  53. ↑ Recent timetables

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