Foreman, British Columbia
human settlement in British Columbia, Canada
Foreman is a community just northeast of Prince George on the southeast side of the Fraser River in central British Columbia. The station was named after a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) supervisor. Foreman Flats (a descriptive used as early as 1954) comprises about 20 residences inhabiting the northern and western parts of Foreman and is part of Prince George's Blackburn neighbourhood. Vehicular access to the eastern part of Foreman/Foreman Flats is via Shelley Road N.
History
Railway
Foreman, like Prince George to its southwest, and Shelley to its northeast, was an original train station (1914) on the GTP (the Canadian National Railway after nationalization).
Situated at Mile 140.7, Fraser Subdivision (about Mile 230 or 231 during the line's construction), it encompassed camps for Lund-Rogers and Magoffin & Berg. George Hardie, a Foley, Welch and Stewart superintendent, had a clearing contract that included Foreman at its eastern extremity.
In 1957, a slow-moving train brushed three men walking along the tracks near Foreman, resulting in hospital stays. One year later, a Canadian National Telegraphs employee suffered a crushed leg and hip injuries when a railway speeder struck him.
Built in 1914, the standard-design Plan 100‐152 (Bohi's Type E) station building primarily accommodated the section crew. Reconfigured in 1948 to Plan 100‐318, it functioned as a freight and passenger shelter, before relocation to Shelley in 1963.
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