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Pioneer Lodge Terrace, BC

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Pioneer Lodge Terrace, BC

PROPERTY DETAILS workshop, and garage for the jet boats and a helipad for the more adventurous.

Listing Number: 20050 The guest accommodation has been renovated Price: $1,549,000 over the last few years to a very high standard with the recent upgrade of the cabin washrooms in the Taxes (2019): $6,932.88 last 12 months.

Size: 30.08 acres The lodge consists of the main lodge, 3 individual log guest cabins, a self-contained apartment block Zoning: RC-1 (built 2014) featuring 3 individual open-plan suites, an owner’s residence, boathouse with apartment DESCRIPTION above, garage with workshop and storage room, and a generator room providing back-up power in The sale of Pioneer Lodge represents a fantastic cases of mains power outage. A drilled well, an opportunity to not only run your own fishing lodge, insulated and heated pump house, septic tanks but also expand into skiing, hunting and eco-tours. and drain fields are in place as well as a helipad. This individual British Columbia property complex The area around the buildings is cleared and comprises individual rustic log cabins as well as landscaped while the rest remains treed and natural more up-to-date modern accommodation, all of providing a very peaceful and tranquil setting. which complement each other. The lodge can comfortably accommodate up to a maximum of 15 people in a total of 15 double beds. Main Lodge The main lodge is a log building, 1,200 ft2 on the Anyone interested in the property also has the main floor with a 355 ft2 loft, on poured concrete option of buying the seller’s Rod Days on the World foundations with a metal roof. The interior walls Class Kalum and Rivers, as well as other are log and drywall with cedar ceilings. The vaulted very productive rivers in the area. This resort is first floor dining and socializing area of the building already set up and fully functional with a beautiful features a large rock fireplace with a wood stove lodge for your guests dining and relaxing pleasure. and skylight plus two washrooms—one for staff The river rock stonework and accents are rustic, and the other for guests. In addition to the lounge beautiful, and ideal for visiting clientele whether area, the main lodge comprises a large open plan they are travelling from domestic or overseas commercial kitchen, equipped with a walk-in cooler, locations—the lodge really captures the spirit of a deep freezer, commercial sanitizer and vacuum traditional Canadian lodge. The full professional packing machine. A laundry room is located beside and licensed kitchen will make any chef happy. the kitchen with separate access. The second floor Open fire pits and a virtual golf simulator theatre has a large bedroom with a deck. This building system (HD Golf) are perfect for those days spent is heated with wood and electric baseboards. A at the lodge! Set up with dry-room, guide room, covered deck compliments the front of the building.

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Owners’ Residence Old Smoke House/Generator House The Owners’ Residence, a 1.5 storey metal roofed The old smoke house has been converted into log home with a deck out front, sits on poured a backup generator room plus separate storage. concrete foundations with 800 ft2 of open concept The generator is 37,000 kW and powers the living space on the main floor, featuring an ornate essential parts of the lodge when the main power wood stove, living room, two bedrooms, three piece is interrupted. bathroom, a 144 ft2 open loft television area with a recently added cedar hot tub deck. LOCATION

Guest Cabins 13527 16 Highway - Terrace, BC The three guest cabins (logs fully renovated 2017) DIRECTIONS are also of log construction with metal roof, each 344 ft2 with two bedrooms, a small sitting area, Call the listing REALTOR® for detailed directions. recently upgraded (2019) three-piece bathroom, electric baseboard heat and full width decks out AREA DATA front. Terrace The Clumps Terrace is a city located near the in This new, 1,800 ft2 building features three fully self- British Columbia. The community is the regional contained apartments. Each open-plan apartment retail and service hub for the northwestern portion has two queen beds, a dining and relaxing area of British Columbia. With a current population of plus a modern shower room. The exterior of the over 12,000 within municipal boundaries, the city Clumps is comprised of bevelled cedar siding and services surrounding communities as well bringing a covered walkway connects each apartment. the Greater Terrace Area population to over 18,000 residents. The Kitselas and people, Boat House/Garage tribes of the Nation, have lived in the Terrace area for thousands of years. The individual The 930 ft2 boat house provides storage for Indigenous communities neighbour the city with riverboats, has a foundation of concrete filled Kitselas to the east and Kitsumkalum to the west. Sonotube®, ranch wall siding and a metal roof. Above the boat storage is a 500 ft2 apartment with As northwest British Columbia’s main services and a kitchen, large queen size bedroom, three-piece transportation hub, Terrace is intersected by the bathroom, spacious living room and a balcony with Canadian National Railway as well as Highway 16 stunning views towards Bornite Mountain. (running east to west) and Highway 37 South. Air services are provided at Northwest Regional Airport, Dry Room/Storage/Workshop with connections to Prince George, Smithers and The dry room is equipped with a pellet stove . The Terrace railway station is served providing heat for drying waders and fishing/ski by Via Rail’s Jasper-Prince Rupert train. Health equipment. The dry room has a concrete floor and care in Terrace is administered by Northern Health tongue and groove pine throughout. Adjacent lies and provided in part by Mills Memorial Hospital. both a large storage area with two deep freezers and a maintenance workshop.

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The Great Bear Rainforest Camping and RVs The Great Bear Rainforest (also known as the From BC Parks to locally owned and operated Central and North Coast forest) is a temperate campgrounds and RV Parks, you’ll find an array of rain forest on the Pacific coast of British Columbia, facilities and amenities served with a large portion comprising 6.4 million hectares. It is part of the of Terrace hospitality. larger Pacific temperate rainforest ecoregion, which is the largest coastal temperate rainforest in Boating and Paddling the world. A rafting, kayaking or canoeing adventure is a great way to explore the waterways and landscapes. The Great Bear Rainforest was officially recognized Imagine yourself gliding quietly over the water or by the Government of British Columbia in February surfing the waves of a raging river. 2016, when it announced an agreement to permanently protect 85% of the old-growth forested Swimming area from industrial logging. The forest was admitted to the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy On a hot summer day, those craving a dip can cool in September of the same year. off in a variety of refreshing rivers, creeks or lakes within minutes from downtown. RECREATION Golfing Sport Fishing Enjoy 18 challenging holes and spectacular views Today’s fresh, sustainable catch: wild salmon of the surrounding mountains and glaciers at The and steelhead! Scenic beauty, a vast variety of Skeena Valley Golf and Country Club, or practice waterways and a fleet of powerful fish make this your swing at The New Remo Driving Range. region an unparalleled destination for big scale adventures. Hiking and Biking You’ve entered a hiker’s and biker’s paradise with Parks and Wildlife an array of easily accessible trails in the area. From For natural splendor, swimming and camping just heart-pumping climbs to extensive backcountry outside of town take a trip to one of the many Parks excursions, you will be treated to some of the most and Recreational Sites in the area. spectacular scenery.

Skiing and Boarding Rock Climbing Winter in Terrace offers endless opportunities A rock climber’s paradise, this region is blessed to get outside and enjoy the snow, fresh air and with pristine granite towering walls. natural beauty. From the exhilarating slopes of the alpine to the peaceful Nordic trails, we’ve got Snowmobiling winter dialed. Prime snowmobiling areas and trail networks through spectacular snow-scapes, forests and Backcountry Skiing mountains are right at our doorstep. Remarkable terrain with endless options for all levels.

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Skating shipyards to be lengthened. During the next two Ice skating and pond hockey on frozen ponds and decades the Company operated a succession lakes are a must-do during the deep freeze of of sternwheelers between Port Essington and the winter months. You can also contact Leisure , often competing fiercely with private Services for their public skating times at the entrepreneurs such as Robert Cunningham, Sportsplex. who launched the Hazelton in 1901. Skeena river boating had become a lucrative business, White River Helicopters serving the traders, prospectors, merchants and missionaries that briefly transformed Hazelton Explore the spectacular rivers and mountains into the largest community in north-western British of the Skeena/Kalum or Kitimat Valleys from the Columbia. air. There is no other place like this in the world! Experience breathtaking views of snow-capped The Skeena’s steam boating era was dominated by mountains, alpine lakes, glaciers and waterfalls, two enduring themes: the race for time to complete so don’t forget your camera! The 15 minute “Mt the upriver trip, and the adaptation of ship design Vanarsdoll” tour is popular with tourists as wells as to the rigors of the river. To the amusement of locals. The tour takes you over the mountains just onlookers, bitter rivalry between sternwheeler north of Terrace and returns along the Kalum River. captains led to frequent river tantrums, including the 1902 ramming of the HBC’s Mount Royal by HISTORY Cunningham’s Hazelton. But no matter what the skill of the riverboat crews, a steamboat trip up the Skeena River river took several days and involved considerable Though the Skeena River was valued as an risk. At , near present-day Terrace, important inland water route, the 288 kilometre shore-anchored cables were required to draw trip from coastal Port Essington to Hazelton, at the the boats through the perilous gorge. Six crew junction of the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers, was members drowned at the Canyon in 1907 while hardly a leisurely cruise. Hudson’s Bay canoe trying to free the wind-blown Mount Royal from the brigades, paddling sturdy, Haida-built cedar craft, rocks at Ring Bolt Island. encountered strong currents, swirling rapids, deep canyons and sharp bends on their week-long The final chapter of Skeena steam boating journey to the inland terminus. paralleled the building of the Grand Trunk Railway early in the 20th Century. Construction supplies Small steamboats appeared briefly on the for the railroad were carried up the Skeena by a turbulent river from 1864-1866, hauling supplies number of privately-owned steamships. In 1912, for the ill-fated Collins Overland Telegraph. When the made the last of the Skeena steamboat a transatlantic cable put an end to the ambitious runs, guided by the captain who first steered the North America-to-Siberia project, the steamboats Caledonia up the river in 1891. were retired.

Fifteen years later, in 1891, the Hudson’s Bay Company launched a specially-commissioned Skeena sternwheeler known as the Caledonia. At 100 feet in length, she was judged too short to handle well, and was returned to the

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Terrace MAP REFERENCE A man with a “Little” vision and big dreams arrived 54°28’42.67”N and 128°45’27.72”W in the Skeena River valley in March 1905 by snowshoeing through gruelling deep snow along BOUNDARIES the Kitimat Trail. George Little liked what he saw, and knew that this land was indeed the land Please see mapping section - all boundaries are that he was searching for when he left his native approximate. Ontario. His keen interest and faith in Terrace were contagious and soon gave way to a flood of SERVICES pioneer settlers, eventually, resulting in a thriving city that respects the man who founded Terrace • Well and recognized the potential of the Skeena Valley. • Septic • Power Fitting nicely into his vision of Terrace, George • Internet Little donated 47 acres to the Grand Trunk Pacific • Phone Railway. The station stop was originally named “Littleton”; however, as there was already a Littleton IMPROVEMENTS in New Brunswick, Little changed the name to “Terrace” in reference to the local geography. Little See main description for details on improvements. established a sawmill to accommodate the demand for railway ties. In 1955, Little rode the first C.N.R. • Main lodge train to Kitimat passing over the same route he had • Owners’ residence trekked one half century earlier. • 3 guest cabins • The Clumps Terrace Mutiny • Boathouse/garage During World War II, military units composed • Dry rooms/storage/workshop primarily of conscripts from central and eastern • Old smokehouse/generator house were stationed in Terrace. Morale was low due to the poor relationship between the soldiers LEGAL and the local populace, the isolation, the damp LOT 4 DISTRICT LOT 1707 RANGE 5 COAST weather, lack of recreation, crowded facilities, and DISTRICT PLAN 8270 the distance from home. In late 1944, because of declining enlistment and heavy casualties, Prime PID 005-585-031 Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was forced to reconsider his promise to not deploy conscripts overseas. Mackenzie King decided to a one-time assignment of conscripts for overseas service. On November 24, 1944, news that conscripts might be sent overseas triggered a mutiny amongst the men stationed in Terrace. It took until November 29 for officers to restore order to the troops. The Terrace Mutiny was the most serious breach of discipline in Canadian military history.

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