About this Site The contents of this site are exerpts taken from the book "The Fort Nelson Story" with the permission of the author, Gerri Young. Small copies of larger images have been included in pages in order to speed page loading. Larger copies are available for most images by clicking those appearing on the pages. The author retains copyright to the contents [both text and images]. School District 81 holds copyright to the web pages available on this site. Inquiries and comments should be directed via email to: <fnstory@husky.sd81.bc.ca> About the Author Gerri Young was born in Vancouver, BC and holds a B.A. in History from the University of British Columbia. She has lived in Fort Nelson since 1954 where she and her husband Syd raised four children. Gerri's great passion is books and she has worked in libraries in Fort Nelson since the late sixties. Acknowledgements

Fort Nelson Geography Fort Nelson Climate Area Plant Life Area Animal Life Fort Nelson Indians* Traditional Indian* Lifestyle A Slavé Myth The First Fur Forts The Hudson Bay Company The Early 1900's The Catholic Church The Twenties The Pack Trail Law and Order Clark and Villeneuve On Patrol The Thirties Two Months Delivery of a Riverboat - 1933 Old Fort Nelson 1938-39 The Great Fur Robbery The Capture Yukon Southern Air Transport Early Airport Cattrain 1941 Fort Nelson Indian* Chiefs The Alaska Highway -Then The Americans Came The Alaska Highway - US Army The Alaska Highway - Homesick Soldiers Floods Old Fort Nelson in the Fifties Rivers and Fate The End of an Era *The usage of the term "Indian" reflects terminology which was current at the time of publication of The Fort Nelson Story. The terms "First Nations", "Native" and "Aboriginal" are now preferred.

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