Dome Creek, between Penny and Crescent Spur on the southwest side of the Fraser River in central British Columbia, provides a year-round destination for hiking, hunting, snowshoeing and snowmobiling.

The scattered community of about 40 permanent residents clusters the railway line and the actual creek (crossed by its own road and rail bridges).

The recreational facility, which occupies the former school building, houses the community hall, a public library and a museum, with a small rustic post office nearby.

[6][7] With river access to bring in labour and supplies, the vicinity may have comprised 2,000 workers[8][9] housed in construction camps stretching from Mile 141 to 146.

However, owing to unprecedented low water limiting navigation, FW&S's larger boats remained berthed from early winter, 1911, to spring, 1913.

[35] When the Prince George-McBride way freights, coming from opposite directions, passed at Dome Creek during the 1950s, there was a sufficient break for passengers to change trains.

[74] John (Jack) W. Carneski (1893–1975), who remained single,[75] operated his mixed farm until death immediately east of Dome Creek on the north half of Lot 3275.

[74] Arriving in 1917, T. Francis (Frank) (1881–1951)[97] and Chris (1892–1979)[98] Gleason were pioneers to the area, who had left America to escape the World War I draft.

), Sheila (c.1911–1995), Montgomery (Montie) (1912–90),[122] Kathleen (1913–82),[123] William (Bill) (1917–96),[124] Myrtle (c.1919–2014),[125] Eileen (1920–92),[28][126] Patricia (Pat) Ann, Mary M., Lyona (1925–2012),[127] and Iona (1925–82).

[150] Iona was engaged[151] to John H. Hooper (1919–93),[152] returned to Vancouver for business college,[153] but married Charles Robert Ashworth (1925–82)[154] of Trail, where the couple resided.

[162] To complement their farming income, Helmer worked in pole camps, and successfully sued[163] contractor Fred Stevens (1867–1956)[164][165] for non-payment of wages.

[200] While Jean, a registered nurse, became the medical emergency volunteer,[201] John introduced the weekly movie night in the community hall at this time,[202] both services they had provided at Penny.

[233] In the 1967/68 winter, an ice jam in the creek flooded out most of the 60 residents, with only the railway station, the boarding house and a few homes spared.

When the Highways Department dynamited the ice, fragments from the explosion crashed through the roof of John Humphrey's house, which was already under four feet of water.

[234] In 1997, five people died in a car that lost control on ice and collided with a loaded westbound logging truck on the Highway 16 hill just west of the bridge across Dome Creek.

[251] By the late 1940s, Standard Forest Products had acquired sawmills at Tête Jaune, Eddy, Dome Creek and Penny.

[256] Based in Red Deer, Alberta, it possessed holdings in McBride and Dome Creek at the time owner William Theodore Nance (c.1908–65) died.

Since the promised route southeast to McBride would long await a government survey, willing residents were unable to voluntarily construct such a link.

A federal politician promised a highway by 1958 linking Prince George, McBride and the Alberta border, which like the CNR bridge would cross the Fraser in the vicinity.

Instead, the provincial government surveyed a route wholly west of the river for the Fraser-Fort George section of Highway 16,[269] as shown in a 1958 road map,[270] but had constructed only 12 miles (19 km) by 1959.

[272] By the 1962/63 winter, work on a highway southeast to McBride included a right-of-way cleared and grubbed to Twin Creek via Crescent Spur.

[273] The following November, the McBride and District Chamber of Commerce approached the Highways Department to reinstate the crossing at Mile 50 and put in a winter road to Dome Creek.

[276] The 1964 summer was so wet, Ginter was unable to make headway in grading and gravelling the 10-mile (16 km) stretch between Dome Creek and Crescent Spur.

By January 1968, the gravel road linking Prince George and McBride was drivable,[279] except during the muddy spring breakup, when sections were impassable.

[283] Although the unfinished Prince George-McBride sections were expected to be paved that year,[284] work was not completed on the final 50 miles (80 km)[285] until the last of the new bridges opened in mid-1970.

[81] The separate position appears from 1928,[288] but it is unclear whether the early telegraph office, which preceded the station,[71] possessed automatic printing apparatus, or the pumpman performed double duty.

[289] For enthusiasts wishing to receive messages from ships at sea or isolated ports, Prof. W. Reade (likely #WReade) was offering courses in telegraphy.

[292] McBride had to wait until 1955, when North-West Telephone Company leased a special circuit from the CNR which connected with Dome Creek.

[293] By 1967, only one active telephone remained in Dome Creek, which was in the general store, after the Red Rock Lumber one was disconnected on closedown.

[298] Since road frontage determined the individual property tax burden, the recovery methodology penalized non-subdividable farms, some of which with their own generators have not connected to the system.