Lindup, British Columbia#Crime, calamity & safety measures

Lindup, like Longworth to its northwest, and Guilford to its southeast, was an original train station (1914) on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway1914 Timetable. p. 4.{{cite web| url=http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/datapub/digital/G_R_3572_C4P3_1911.jpg| title=Map of the Central Section of British Columbia Shewing the Country Served by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway| website=www.utoronto.ca |date=c. 1919}} (the Canadian National Railway after nationalization). The name, an early medieval English surname,{{cite web| url=http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Lindup | title=Last name: Lindup | website=www.surnamedb.com}} was possibly selected from the list prepared by Josiah Wedgwood (submitted at the request of William P. Hinton, the railway's general manager).Prince George Citizen, 27 May 1957

Lindup lay at Mile 75.0, Fraser Subdivision{{cite web |url=http://www.cwrailway.ca/cnrha.ca/Timetables/Mountain%20Region/BC%20North%20Division/Fraser.pdf | page=79 |title=1977 Timetable |website=www.cwrailway.ca}} (about Mile 164.5 during the line's construction). In 1912, Magoffin (McGoffin alternate spelling) & Berg subcontracted at Mile 162.Fort George Herald, 30 Nov 1912 The next year, their steam shovel at Mile 163 was one of the largest on the line.Fort George Herald, 17 May 1913 A camp existed at Mile 166.Fort George Herald: 7 & 14 Jun 1913 The station included a pumpman{{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1921/Wrigley%27s_British_Columbia_Directory |title = 1921 BC Directory|website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}} and water tower,1920 Timetable. Bulkley Valley Museum. p. 8. located just east at Lindup Creek (formerly called Tank Creek).{{sfn|Boudreau|2003|pp=48 & 54}} The early telegraph office likely relied upon automatic printing apparatus, because there was no dispatcher at this location. By 1922, a telephone had replaced the telegraph. A 1926 forest fire brought down nearby telegraph wires.Prince George Citizen, 13 May 1926 The following year, a fire burning on both sides of the tracks from Hutton to Guilford threatened the station building and the railway dispatched a crew to protect the company property.Prince George Citizen, 18 Aug 1927 While attempting to board a railway cable car at Lindup, Wesley Goheen (1910–78),{{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/d8c55752-65fc-4e43-90d9-4e00d5859c9d |title =Death Certificate (Wesly Arnold GOHEEN)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}}Prince George Citizen, 21 Feb 1978 a work train employee, slipped and a wheel crushed his ankle. The injured foot required a hospital amputation.Prince George Citizen: 18 & 25 Aug 1927

This track maintenance location closed in the mid-1930s, with the section crew reassigned elsewhere.{{sfn|Wlasitz|2000|p=10}}{{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1932/Wrigley%27s_British_Columbia_Directory |title = 1932 BC Directory|website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}} & {{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1935/BC_and_Yukon_Directory |title = 1935 BC Directory|website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}} Joseph (Joe) Denicola (1909–78){{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/d1994f24-0feb-4a90-94e3-b13a52d23096 |title =Death Certificate (Joseph Domenic DENICOLA)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}} was foreman from about 1930 until closure.{{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1930/Wrigley%27s_British_Columbia_Directory |title = 1930 BC Directory|website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}} to {{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1932/Wrigley%27s_British_Columbia_Directory |title = 1932 BC Directory|website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}} He was later a roadmaster (supervised section foremen within a territory),{{sfn|Boudreau|2003|p=49}} before joining BC Rail.Prince George Citizen, 7 Nov 1978 His brother Armand Denicola (1922–2019), raised at Foreman,Prince George Citizen, 6 Mar 2019 worked for him during this time. Joseph (Joe) Bugyinka (1888–1971),{{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/64cbc028-e7df-4fb8-94ff-b5785672a12c |title =Death Certificate (Joseph BUGYINKA)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}} was a section hand from around 1927–28 until closure.{{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1928/Wrigley%27s_British_Columbia_Directory |title = 1928 BC Directory|website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}} to {{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1932/Wrigley%27s_British_Columbia_Directory |title = 1932 BC Directory|website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}} He lost his first wife, Margaret (1891–1934),{{Cite web | url=http://geneofun.on.ca/names/photo/2521347 |title=Cemetery Project (Margaret BUGYINKA)|website=www.geneofun.on.ca}} who inadvertently consumed poisonous mushrooms she had picked locally.{{sfn|Boudreau|2003|p=50}} {{anchor|WlasitzFam}}

George (1891–1962){{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/52a9ceb3-3a26-484f-bb23-5cc21a97dbdd |title =Death Certificate (George WLASITZ)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}} & Helen (1901–60){{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/c324b3a9-053f-42ad-bd71-5bb22323e29f |title =Death Certificate (Helen WLASITZ)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}} Wlasitz arrived around 1927–28.{{sfn|Wlasitz|2000|p=3}} George worked as a section hand from that time until retirement. When the section closed, he was reassigned to Longworth.{{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1928/Wrigley%27s_British_Columbia_Directory |title = 1928 BC Directory|website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}} to {{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1932/Wrigley%27s_British_Columbia_Directory |title = 1932 BC Directory|website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}} & {{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1935/BC_and_Yukon_Directory |title = 1935 BC Directory|website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}} to {{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1955/Prince_George_and_Northern_British_Columbia_Directory |title = 1955 BC Directory|website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}} However, they remained Lindup residents until about 1956.{{sfn|Wlasitz|2000|p=29}} Their children were Stephen (Steve) (1919–2008),{{Cite web | url=http://geneofun.on.ca/names/photo/2525710 |title=Cemetery Project (Stephen WLASITZ)|website=www.geneofun.on.ca}} Mary (1921–2001),Prince George Citizen, 19 Jun 2001 Frank (c.1923–2012),Prince George Citizen, 5 Dec 2012 and James (Jim) (c.1932–?).Prince George Citizen, 24 Jun 1948 Mary married{{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/9cfcf9ed-e392-4911-a096-64a3fef745af |title =Marriage Certificate (MOKREY/WLASITZ)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}} Nick Mokrey (1910–97),{{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/3ac125c1-7f20-4354-8c36-51c285dc9c30 |title =Death Certificate (Nicolaus MOKREY)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}} they lived elsewhere, but the marriage failed. Steve worked as a logger and as a section hand from 16.{{sfn|Wlasitz|2000|pp=4 & 29–30}} The older brothers enlisted.Prince George Citizen: 6 Apr 1944 & 26 Oct 1944 After the war, Steve commuted to Dewey by speeder where he was a section hand, but also worked elsewhere as a relief section foreman.{{sfn|Wlasitz|2000|p=6}} When Steve married Helen Petro,{{sfn|Wlasitz|2000|p=5}}Prince George Citizen, 6 May 2014 the couple initially lived at Lindup, but soon relocated to Sinclair Mills.{{sfn|Wlasitz|2000|p=43}} Frank married Winnifred Tate and they settled in Longworth,Prince George Citizen, 13 Nov 1947 as did Jim on marrying Anna Margaret Mann.Prince George Citizen, 5 Mar 1953

Built in 1914, the standard-design Plan 100-152 (Bohi's Type E){{Cite web | url=http://www.oil-electric.com/2008/09/type-e-mythology.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101162602/http://www.oil-electric.com/2008/09/type-e-mythology.html | url-status=usurped | archive-date=January 1, 2009 | title=Type "E" Mythology|website=www.oil-electric.com}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.michaelkluckner.com/bciw10gtp.html |title = Vanishing BC GTP Railway stations|website=www.michaelkluckner.com}} station building was transported in 1947 by railway flatcar to Penny,Prince George Citizen, 16 Oct 1947 and exchanged for the latter's{{sfn|Boudreau|2003|p=6}} Plan 110-101 converted sectionmen's bunkhouse. In 1960, this smaller structure was relocated to Eddy.{{cite book |last1=Bohi |first1=Charles W. |last2=Kozma |first2=Leslie S. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/canadiannational0000bohi/page/121 121, 136 & 141] |title=Canadian National's Western Stations |year=2002 |publisher=Fitzhenry & Whiteside |isbn=1550416324 |url=https://archive.org/details/canadiannational0000bohi/page/121 }}

In 1952, when a westbound passenger train smashed into two boxcars at the siding, the impact shattered the empty one and extensively damaged the partly loaded one. Safety supervisor Edward F. Daly (1892–1958){{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/85296bb2-956d-4097-9bd5-655a992f7223 |title =Death Certificate (Edward Francis DALY)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}} suffered a badly wrenched shoulder. The boxcars apparently rolled onto the mainline following shunting operations the previous night.Prince George Citizen, 29 Sep 1952

Grade stabilization at Mile 75.87 in 1994 included culverts, manholes and revetment work.Prince George Citizen, 9 Jun 1994

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| Siding | Mile No. | 1922 | 1933 | 1943 | 1960–65 | 1968–72 | 1977 |

(Capacity Length) | | Cars | Cars | Cars | Cars 1965 Timetable. Northern BC Archives. pp. 25–26. | Cars 1968 Timetable. Northern BC Archives. pp. 25–26. | Feet |

Lindup | 75.0 | 65 | 63 | 55 | 51 | 50 | 2,350 }}

In the 1920s, a hunter for caribou in the vicinity observed the plentiful moose population.Prince George Citizen, 4 Dec 1924

The narrow strip of accessible spruce forest bordering the railway that stretched some {{convert|100|mi|km}} east of Prince George was known as the East Line.{{Cite web | url=http://summit.sfu.ca/item/6364 |last=Hak |first=Gordon Hugh |page=14 |title=On the Fringes: Capital and Labour in the Forest Economies of the Port Alberni and Prince George Districts, BC, 1910–1939 |year=1986 |website=www.summit.sfu.ca}} In 1929, J.B. Turnbull (possibly 1878–1964){{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/88cb6c29-97ce-47af-85e5-9711db2d2f2f |title =Death Certificate (John Burns TURNBULL)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}} conducted summer logging {{convert|1|mi|km|spell=in}} south.Prince George Citizen, 25 Apr 1929 Across the river to the north, Jack Smedley ran a logging camp.{{sfn|Boudreau|2003|p=53}} This is likely the same Jacob (Jake) Smedley (c.1882–?){{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/c9d76db5-a675-40a7-b273-ce6a473c72f6 |title =Marriage Certificate (SMEDLEY/PAYNE)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}} based in the Dewey area (encompassing Sinclair Mills) during the 1920s,Prince George Citizen: 25 Oct 1923, 15 Nov 1923, 26 Apr 1928 & 3 Oct 1929 who was later foreman at the Sinclair logging camp near Longworth.Prince George Citizen: 24 Mar 1938, 24 Nov 1938 & 22 Dec 1938 {{anchor|ChambersFam}}

In 1928, Edward (Ed) V. (1888–1951){{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/0e4f3a83-1ffa-4a7a-b16b-2df07076d8c3 |title =Death Certificate (Edward Victor CHAMBERS)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}} & Elsie (1904–95){{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/1be2c893-8116-48a0-9963-7892f2dc1383 |title =Death Certificate (Elsie Louise Christina HEGSTAD)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}} Chambers arrived from Foreman. Their children were D. Bernice (c.1923–?),{{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/a7bab447-ee1e-48db-8d93-120da79b4008 |title =Marriage Certificate (GAGNON/CHAMBERS)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}} Jim (1924–?), Marie (c.1926–?), Lillian Jean (c.1928–2002),Prince George Citizen, 13 Nov 2002 Charles Lindburgh (Lindy) (1929–79),{{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/a060e577-eeb6-487b-b52c-fbde6a141cc1 |title =Death Certificate (Charles Lindburgh CHAMBERS)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}}Prince George Citizen, 10 Aug 1979 Jean (1930–2012),{{Cite web | url=http://www.inmemoriam.ca/view-announcement-342363-jean-benton.html |title =Obituary (Jean BENTON)|website=www.inmemoriam.ca}} and Bette. While hunting, Ed seriously injured his hand, when a falling loaded rifle accidentally discharged.Prince George Citizen, 26 Sep 1929 Ed ran a 25-man logging camp that produced telegraph poles. Non-payment for a two-railway-car consignment to Nogle Co. during the Great Depression bankrupted his business.{{sfn|Boudreau|2003|pp=51–52}} Unable to settle his business debts, the remaining cedar poles stacked at the siding were seized and sold by sheriff's sale.Prince George Citizen: 21 & 28 Mar 1929; 17 & 31 Oct 1929; 12 & 19 Feb 1931; & 2 Apr 1931 In 1934, the family relocated to the Mile 72 Relief Camp. {{anchor|TBerg}}

During 1949–52, Torsten Berg (1912–2007), a Longworth resident,{{Cite web | url=http://geneofun.on.ca/names/photo/2518069 |title=Cemetery Project (Torsten BERG)|website=www.geneofun.on.ca}} operated the only mill to exist at Lindup. Milling the high quality spruce from north and east of the railway line, he subcontracted to Charles Howarth of Guilford Lumber to supply planks for the podium used at Queen Elizabeth's 1953 coronation.{{sfn|Boudreau|2003|pp=65–67}}{{cite book |last=Olson |first=Raymond | page=90 |title=Ghost Towns on the East Line |year=2014 |publisher=Self-published |isbn=9780986924316}} The sawmill soon returned to Longworth.Prince George Citizen: 27 Oct 1949 & 22 Jan 1996

Comprising minimal residents,{{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/index.php/browse/title/1918/Wrigley%27s_British_Columbia_Directory |title = 1918 BC Directory|website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}} recipients collected their mail from either Longworth or Penny.{{sfn|Boudreau|2003|p=6}} The population peaked at about 50 in 1929, but dwindled into the Great Depression, and was almost a ghost town by the mid-1940s.Prince George Citizen, 8 Jul 1989 Children attended school in either Longworth or Penny, a {{convert|4|to|5|mi|km|spell=in|adj=on}} walk each way for most students.{{sfn|Wlasitz|2000|p=4}}Prince George Citizen, 20 Jun 2001{{sfn|Boudreau|2003|pp=51–53}} These were also social venues.Prince George Citizen, 21 Sep 1939 When Penny, a settlement and station not originally planned by the GTP, took root, it shadowed Lindup's future. George & Helen Wlasitz were the final permanent residents. The back-to-the-land movement, which peaked during the 1970s, likely prompted the brief reopening of the flag stop.

In 1934, the partial remains of a man were found in bush near Lindup. Wildlife had torn apart the victim, a former Penny relief camp resident, who had apparently committed suicide.{{Cite web | url=http://geneofun.on.ca/names/photo/2527807 |title=Cemetery Project (Benjamin GILLESPIE)|website=www.geneofun.on.ca}}Prince George Citizen: 12 & 19 Jul 1934

That year, trapper/loggers Joseph Pastor (1896–1982){{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/16a12f28-6053-4eaa-9253-28558de62c74 |title =Death Certificate (Joseph PASTOR)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}}Prince George Citizen, 22 Nov 1982 and Joseph Kobra (1902–65),{{Cite web | url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/b9b4ade3-32a1-4961-baba-39ea360633de |title =Death Certificate (Joseph KOBRA)|website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}}Prince George Citizen, 29 Jan 1965 Hungarians,{{sfn|Boudreau|2003|pp=57 & 62}} were sentenced to one month's imprisonment for assaulting a police officer in the discharge of his duty.Prince George Citizen, 28 Apr 1932 In an unrelated offence, Kobra was sentenced to two months hard labour for relief fraud during 1931.Prince George Citizen, 22 Jun 1933 He continued to flout the law by running his three-wheeled homemade speeder on the railway line.{{sfn|Boudreau|2003|p=58}} He was one of the few who not only drank the muddy Fraser water, but proclaimed its qualities.{{sfn|Wlasitz|2000|pp=12 & 27–28}} Pastor, followed by Kobra, resettled in Penny.

In the summer of 1938, a transient walking the railway track started a forest fire between Longworth and Lindup, prompting a precautionary temporary evacuation of the latter. The blaze quickly spotted, a crew of 100 volunteers (largely drawn from Longworth) brought it under control.Prince George Citizen, 2 Jun 1938

The Aleza Lake to Tête Jaune highway-construction relief project began in 1931. The seven camps between Aleza Lake and McBride housed 500 workers. Nearby relief camps operated at Miles 72 and around 76.5 (occupying the former GTP construction camps at the then Miles 162 and 166).{{sfn|Boudreau|2003|p=64}}Prince George Citizen, 20 Aug 1931 Inhabitants built a road alongside the railway track and a ski hill at Mile 74, both of which fell into disuse.{{Cite web | url=https://search.nbca.unbc.ca/uploads/r/northern-bc-archives-special-collections-1/4/4/1/441abc2ff5aed6cd1067cd9b456826f53c69f9985c67fdbf93e392db66c9e247/2017.06.2.48__Mellows_Arne_and_Carrie__OCR_.pdf#page=4 | last=Mellows |first=Arne & Carrie |title =Upper Fraser Historical Geography Project Transcript |year=2000 | pages=2–3 |website=www.nbca.unbc.ca}}

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• {{cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository |title =Prince George archival newspapers |website=www.pgpl.ca}}
• {{cite book |last=Boudreau |first=Clarence & Olga |title=Into the Mists of Time |year=2003 |publisher=Self-published |isbn=0973076917 }}
• {{Cite web | url=https://search.nbca.unbc.ca/uploads/r/northern-bc-archives-special-collections-1/2/b/6/2b64109c25b2859ae58efd839a40826c50a110ad57372915614f6ceb0927b7a4/2017.06.2.76_Wlasitz__OCR_.pdf | last=Wlasitz |first=Steve & Helen |title =Upper Fraser Historical Geography Project Transcript |year=2000 |website=www.nbca.unbc.ca}}

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