Longworth comprises scattered houses in a settlement between Sinclair Mills and Penny on the northeast side of the Fraser River in central British Columbia.

Containing less than 15 permanent residents, a community hall,[1] and former schoolhouse housing the post office,[2] the location is a jumping-off point for outdoor recreational activities.

The name, a locational surname of Anglo-Saxon origin, deriving from any one of the places called "Longworth" in Berkshire, Herefordshire, or Lancashire,[6] was probably[7] selected from the list prepared by Josiah Wedgwood (submitted at the request of William P. Hinton, the railway's general manager).

George Wlasitz of Lindup, who remained a section hand, would at least have employment throughout the Great Depression and go on to qualify for a 20-year pass that allowed free travel on Canada and U.S. railroads.

His son Steve would qualify for a 10-year pass that allowed free travel within Canada for the family, before resigning for a better paying sawmill job.

However, year round work existed in sawmill towns such as Giscome, Aleza Lake, Hutton, Penny and Longworth.

In 1923, the Jaeck-Allen partnership dissolved when Allen joined Frederick (Fred) Thrasher (1890–1967)[82] (the mill's former accountant) in a sawmill venture at Snowshoe, 3.1 miles (5.0 km) from Loos.

Robert Allen operated his crew three miles (4.8 km) from Longworth[108] during the 1938/39 and 1939/40 winters, before relocating his equipment back to Snowshoe.

[110] Carl Johnson, who purchased the former mill site with plans to renovate the houses,[111] resold the properties to Karl Anderson.

Falling trees fatally crushed loggers Carl G. Johannson (c.1886–1925)[114][115] and William Stack (possibly Slack) (c.1900–1925).

Berg's sawmill, near Longworth, while jumping from a snowplowing tractor, Kenneth D. Wilson (1920–56)[121] was fatally crushed between the tracks and hydraulic cylinder.

[122] In 1965, logging operator Torsten Berg was fined for omitting some employee earnings from his Unemployment Insurance Commission records.

(1918–94), Earl (1919–84),[155][156][157] Ronald (1921–88),[158][159] Ernest E. (1923–56), who drowned at Hansard,[160] Wallace, Herbert (1926–53), who died in a traffic accident at Prince George,[161][162] Naomi, Alberteen, and Helen.

[177] When they moved to Sinclair Mills in 1943, Ray drew upon his river experience[178] to raft their home downriver through the Grand Canyon rapids.

Read (1888–1945) (Reid alternate spelling), a storeowner during the late 1910s,[196] was the inaugural postmaster 1915–20, but the post office remained closed for 15 of those months.

[227] He had arrived in the district as part of a railway construction crew, been postmaster for a total of 17 years, and been a guide for big game hunting.

[232] At the initial screening, which comprised several short reels, the packed Longworth Hall attracted a number from Penny.

[249] The school at Sinclair Mills closed in 1984, Upper Fraser in 1998, and elementary education became centralized at Giscome from 1999, except for distance-learning students.

Students completed correspondence courses in the former schoolhouse, and residents regularly used the more recently built community hall for various activities.

[251] "Longstock", formerly called "Hot As Hell Bonfire Dance", was an annual musical festival held at the community hall 1992–2001.

[258][259] Nels Adolf Sjolund (1898–1955),[260] postmaster in 1955,[187] proprietor of the Toneko Lodge, and part owner of the general store, committed suicide in a like manner that year.

When a companion's loaded .22-calibre rifle accidentally discharged two miles (3.2 km) east, while on a hunting trip, younger son R. Peter Berg (1956–67)[272] suffered a fatal shoulder wound.

[276] In 1976, when two-year-old Seth Allen became separated from his parents in the Hungary Creek area, he spent a night alone in the bush, before a search effort by the 35-person community found the infant.

[277] Three years earlier, Thad, Seth's father, was a key organizer of a back-to-nature summer camp for urban children that was held in Longworth.

[278] The following year, Lawrence (Larry) Gaylord, of Longworth, was arrested in Prince George and charged with trafficking, after police found a pound of marijuana in his hotel room.

[279] To extend the existing Prince George-Aleza Lake highway,[280] the 30 miles (48 km) to Longworth were cleared, grubbed and rough graded during 1929–31.

[285] In 1960, the provincial conservative candidate brought two horses in a car trailer to Sinclair Mills, and campaigned the next 35 miles (56 km) southeast by horseback.

[290] With one hill impassable for a week, a lot of the 1992 work by the highway maintenance contractor was undone by the fall rains, owing to the growing number of logging trucks breaking up the road.

[292] Over the following decade, not only was this section of gravel road still in poor shape,[293] but the whole distance as far northwest as the Hansard Bridge was barely drivable.

[306] In 1989, after 13 of the 26 eligible voters voted unanimously in favour, BC Hydro constructed an electrical distribution line to the community.