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Central Fort George
Central Fort George Central Fort George was a townsite that was promoted in what would later be called Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. It encompassed the area from the Nechako River south to 15th Avenue and from Carney Street west to Quinn Street. Before the arrival of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1914, the Prince George area was known as Fort George and was a Lheidli T'enneh village and Hudson's Bay Company store. When the construction of the railway was announced, there was a great deal of interest in the area and in 1909, both Central Fort George and South Fort George on the Fraser River were built and promoted by land speculators who were hoping to get in on the ground floor before the railway was completed. Both of these townsites believed that the railway would build a station in their community, but in May of 1912, the railway chose to purchase the First Nation's village instead.

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 * Place names in the Kootenays
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