Giscome is a community comprising scattered houses located at the southwest end of Eaglet Lake, which is east of Willow River, in central British Columbia.

James Edward Bateman was the first settler in the area, obtaining a crown grant in 1914 for a narrow lot one mile east of Giscome along the lakeshore, over which the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) held a right-of way.

[7] Although suffering broken ribs from a horse's kick[8] and bankruptcy during the 1920s,[9] James Bateman went on to prosper as a dairy farmer.

[12] Experiencing a bull attack[13] and some brushes with the law,[14] Alex Hubbard operated a successful dairy farm.

[15] After his wife, Mary Jane, accidentally drowned in their cellar in 1946,[16] he married Thelma Selina Burton the following year.

[19] Giscome, like Willow River to the west and Newlands to the east, was an original train station (1914) on the GTP (the CNR after nationalization).

Throughout its history, the town boasted: a 14-room hotel, a 3-storey boarding house, a 2-storey guesthouse, a hospital, baseball diamond with grandstand, a hockey rink, tennis court, a community hall, a skating ring, a Legion Hall, gas station, and Catholic, United and Pentecostal Churches.

Dave Jennings’ business (becoming Northwood Forest Products), a railway tie producer, had its own spur at this time.

The United Grain Growers (UGG) sawmill had a separate log-loading facility two miles east of the train station.

Began in 1924, the mill's standard gauge logging railway would eventually stretch from Hospital Creek, near Willow River, through Giscome and along the north side of Eaglet Lake.

During the 1924-25 winter season, the mill was innovative in using caterpillar tractors to haul logs, a practice still uncommon as late as the mid-1930s in the northern interior, where horses were primarily used before 1939.

In Jun 1948, a Central Airways Cessna T-50 "Crane" suffered irreparable damage after an emergency landing in a field east of the then school.