During the late spring flooding of 1938,[13] the river flowed up the creek system temporarily creating a streak of brown sediment across the surface of Aleza Lake.

[19] During the following years, some speculated the Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway would continue southwest through the Wapiti Pass, until joining the GTP near Aleza Lake, with the goal of securing running rights westward over that line.

[20] Herman G. Griese (1892–1940) of Shelley[21] (misreported as Edward), section hand (track maintenance), died from a heart attack in the section-house while preparing to go to work.

Towed through heavy mud and deep holes by bulldozers near Giscome, three buses brought eastbound passengers from Prince George, and returned with the westbound ones.

Their homesteads were a two-mile (3.2 km) walk around the east end of the lake from the village, but a shorter distance by boat in summer or across the ice in winter.

[66][84] Daughter Violet married[85] Arnold John Brandner (1908–68)[86] (Melvin's brother) (see #GardinerFam), but the couple remained only a few years at Aleza Lake.

[97] Around 1917, Andrew (Andy) (c.1884–1943)[98][99] & Mary (c.1884–1942)[100][99] Young,[101] Roy Billings,[94] and Mac McGibbons, settled on plots 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south in the hills, but they abandoned these holdings by 1920.

After relocating to Prince George in 1949, they owned and operated several successful construction companies, and Ethel later wrote a slender volume outlining a history of Aleza Lake.

[133] A number of homesteaders came after World War I. Arthur (Art) G. (1887–1953)[134] & Glory A. Williams (see #WilliamsFam_b) operated a small dairy farm on the north shore of the lake, which supplied the community until they left in the late 1930s.

[146] The one-room building, at the east end of the boardwalk through the town, was also the venue for Christmas concerts, card evenings, bridal showers, and occasional Saturday night dances during the early years.

[153] Their twin daughters, Maude and Mabel (1915–42),[154] commenced school at age five in order to boost the enrolment number to the required minimum of 10 for government funding.

[161] Trapper Matt Hilton (c.1876–1921),[162] who had a cabin about four miles (6.4 km) to the south, succumbed to his poor health and perished outdoors in the extreme winter cold.

[239] In 1925, a passenger car attached to local freight train brought visitors from Prince George, and intermediate points, to the Aleza Lake Ice Carnival & Dance.

[324] When Andy skidded on ice and collided with another vehicle in a 1942 auto accident, Rose suffered bruises and shock, and Nellie Boomhower (see #BoomhowerFam) broke her collarbone.

[385] When a train was not expected imminently,[185] the Forestry Service speeder, housed in front of the ranger station, transported patients with urgent medical needs to facilities offering the requisite level of treatment.

[129] Although company president,[410] he and wife Claire (1889–1957)[411][412][413] remained Prince George residents until the mid-1920s,[414] where he was a violinist with the orchestra,[415] and vice-president of the Upper Fraser Spruce Manufacturers Association.

[66] Operating as the Northland Spruce Lumber Co., the company logged in the vicinity that winter and relocated their 40,000-foot capacity Bannock mill to the site in spring 1924.

Built with new machinery, the output helped satisfy the Oshawa company's exclusive contract to supply General Motors Canada with wooden packing crates for shipping vehicles.

[463] The next year, when Adolf Bruestle (previously of Upper Fraser) mangled his hand at Aleza Lake Mills, resultant surgery amputated the thumb and forefinger.

[472] During 1963, United Forest Products received a $100 fine for contravening the Hours of Work Act,[473] a sawdust pile at an abandoned mill caught fire,[474] and the carrier of a log conveyor at the S.B.

[481] Joseph Korodi, 60, an officer of that company, received a two-year suspended sentence for filing false insurance claims with respect to the 1963 fire.

[485] The latter opening in 1924, Percy M. Barr planned and supervised the fieldwork in establishing sample plots for a demonstration forest, familiarizing himself with all nearby sawmills, and in jointly setting the boundaries for the station.

[492] The complete collapse of the local forest industry during the Great Depression, which had diminished the 1929/30 winter logging cut, precipitated cancellation thereafter, but research plots continued to be established and regularly remeasured.

[509] Officially reopened in 1992, plot remeasurements began the previous year with the expectation graduate students would do masters and doctoral theses on the research conducted.

[523] Two years later, reconstruction through muskeg in the vicinity, and a shortage of gravel, created road conditions that bogged down even Caterpillar tractors and required the winching of trucks.

[524] One summer weekend in 1950, having previously endured near impassable muddy conditions, volunteers from the district used public works equipment to rehabilitate the road significantly.

[527] However, in springtime, the road remained a challenge for even four-wheel-drive vehicles,[528] because the swampy, low-lying area became thick with mud when temperatures rose above freezing.

[534] In 1983 came fulfillment with the hardtop extended 24 kilometres (15 mi) east through Aleza Lake to Upper Fraser, providing a paved surface from Prince George.

[185] The respective Upper Fraser section outlines the 1974 installation of an automatic telephone exchange, and the 1964 project that provided electricity to the village from the transmission line to Newlands.

Engaged at the right-of-way for the high voltage extension, a helicopter brought an injured BC Hydro surveyor to hospital in Prince George.