[4][5] The stop is across the Fraser River from the village of Dome Creek which is accessible by Gravel Road from Yellowhead Highway 16.

Commencing the 1928 special Dominion Day train to Prince George from Bend suggests the community's significance at the time.

[9] At the rail bridge in 1931, a train struck and killed Elfrida Strand, who was searching for stray horses with her husband.

[10] In 1948, another rail accident occurred when two forestry speeders carrying 17 men to a forest fire at Loos collided near Bend, resulting in hospitalizations.

[12] Built in 1914, the standard-design Plan 100-152 (Bohi's Type E)[13][14] station building could not have survived the 1942 fire, or been the structure dismantled in 1962.

[56] In partnership with son C. Earl (1904–52), later at Penny,[57] he opened an enlarged mill in August 1928,[58][59] which operated as the Bend Lumber Co.[60] It is unclear whether P.J.

[69] The following year, Leonard H. Jaeck (1880–1958), formerly at Longworth,[70][71] and Earl's uncle,[55] fractured his leg at work,[72] and Patrick Murdock (1883–1939),[73] the mill accountant, collapsed at his desk and died.

[74] Lillian (1903–69),[75] Earl's wife, daughter of lumber pioneer Eugene Bashaw,[76] headed the local Red Cross fundraising effort during World War II.

[77] In 1942, when a 60 mph (97 km/h) wind swept through the area, toppled trees fell on telephone wires, cutting off communication with the outside.

Relief supplies for the 200 victims, who had lost everything, were dispatched from McBride,[68] garnering praise for the Red Cross and Salvation Army.

[82] Oscar Benson (1889–1950)[83] travelled by scow[84] from Tête Jaune to Fort George around 1913, and proceeded to take up a preemption at Bend, where he built a log cabin.

[93] Breaking his leg in an industrial accident at the Dome Creek sawmill, Carl spent a year at St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver),[94] before returning.

[96] Selling his interest, Carl and his parents acquired the Aleza Lake store in late 1949, and moved there in early 1950.

He divided the first five years in working for the Great Northern Railway in Minot, North Dakota, and establishing the farm[101] at Bend.

[104] In 1940, he accompanied a constable in a futile search of 130 miles (210 km) of the Fraser River bars and banks for a missing logger, who was presumed drowned.

[105] When the Rotary barrel floated the 145 miles (233 km) from Dome Creek/Bend to Prince George in 1943, 1944 and 1945, James was the official monitor for the first half of the journey.

[116] He enlisted 1945–46,[117] was a principal of Hooker Bros Sawmill during the 1950s to early 1960s, and remained in the Dome Creek area.

They spent their young married life raising their children in the Dome Creek area, before relocating.

[126] Kenneth Sr. partnered in the Hooker Bros Sawmill in the 1950s to early 1960s, and remained in the Dome Creek area.

While Jean cooked at the Hooker Bros. camp, he hauled logs for Nance Lumber of Dome Creek.

A scheduled reopening for 1948 did not transpire, because no suitable teacher was available,[1][131] and plans commenced to make the consolidation of the schools permanent.

[152] In 1960, a black bear mauled Heller Hrechka (Hreczka alternate spelling) (1931–79),[153][154] a CNR section hand (track maintenance), while he walked along the railway right-of-way, just west of the bridge.

To save on transportation costs, Doug Abernethy of Guilford Lumber once drove a small Cat dozer over the bridge, but was able to talk his way out of being charged.