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title: "Where can I learn about local history or find an old…"
description: "Our history guides cover the Lheidli T’enneh, Fort George and the railway boom; the Exploration Place museum keeps the city’s collections."
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# Where can I learn about local history or find an old business?

Our history guides cover the Lheidli T’enneh, Fort George and the railway boom; the Exploration Place museum keeps the city’s collections; and our news archive keeps every headline we have collected, by month.

Checked October 1, 2026. Numbers update on their own.

Start with the history guides, then the Exploration Place for archives and exhibits. For recent decades, our news archive is browsable by month. Try the local trivia quiz for the quirkier facts.

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## On PG Pulse

- [History of Prince George](https://princegeorgepulse.ca/explore/history/)
- [News archive](https://princegeorgepulse.ca/news/archive/)
- [Fort George and the railway](https://princegeorgepulse.ca/explore/fort-george-and-the-railway-boom/)
- [Local trivia](https://princegeorgepulse.ca/trivia/)

## Official sources

- [The Exploration Place](https://theexplorationplace.com/) Link checked October 14, 2026
- [Lheidli T’enneh First Nation](https://www.lheidli.ca/) Link checked October 14, 2026

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### Answer

Source: [Answers compiled from our own pages and the official sources linked in each answer; live values from our public API](https://princegeorgepulse.ca/answers/). Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); each answer links its official sources. Updated 2026-10-14T12:40:01.822Z.
JSON: https://princegeorgepulse.ca/api/v1/answers/local-history

- **id**: local-history
- **theme**: 48
- **topic**: social
- **topicLabel**: Meeting people and things to do
- **question**: Where can I learn about local history or find an old business?
- **also**: Old bar name, Longest serving business, Remember the waterslides
- **short**: Our history guides cover the Lheidli T’enneh, Fort George and the railway boom; the Exploration Place museum keeps the city’s collections; and our news archive keeps every headline we have collected, by month.
- **answer**: Start with the history guides, then the Exploration Place for archives and exhibits. For recent decades, our news archive is browsable by month. Try the local trivia quiz for the quirkier facts.
- **facts**: _none_
- **checked**: 2026-10-01
- **page**: <https://princegeorgepulse.ca/answers/local-history/>

#### links

| label | url |
| --- | --- |
| History of Prince George | https://princegeorgepulse.ca/explore/history/ |
| News archive | https://princegeorgepulse.ca/news/archive/ |
| Fort George and the railway | https://princegeorgepulse.ca/explore/fort-george-and-the-railway-boom/ |
| Local trivia | https://princegeorgepulse.ca/trivia/ |


#### official

| label | url | linkOk | linkCheckedAt |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Exploration Place | https://theexplorationplace.com/ | true | 2026-10-14T12:40:01.822Z |
| Lheidli T’enneh First Nation | https://www.lheidli.ca | true | 2026-10-14T12:40:01.822Z |

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