# What small town in Northern BC are you from? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-small-town-in-northern-bc-are-you-from/430492 "2007-12-18T19:40:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-small-town-in-northern-bc-are-you-from/430492/1 "2007-12-18T19:40:55Z")
No, this isn’t one of those quizzes where you decide whether you like kittens or roses more and then it tells you you’ve been from Fort St. James all along. It just appears that there are a lot of people in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448229) who are from small towns in Northern BC. Since a thread about someone suffering from alzheimers and the people who do or do not love them isn’t really the right place to discuss such trivialities, I thought I’d start a thread over here, instead. Personally, I’m from Bear Lake, which is a town of about 270 people about 45 minutes North of Prince George (which is a town of about 80,000 people about 10 hours North of Vancouver). ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-small-town-in-northern-bc-are-you-from/430492/2 "2007-12-18T22:06:59Z")
I’m from Kleena Kleene. Okay, not really. ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-small-town-in-northern-bc-are-you-from/430492/3 "2007-12-19T00:09:47Z")
I shamefully admit I exaggerated on the Northern a bit. I am from Horsefly. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-small-town-in-northern-bc-are-you-from/430492/4 "2007-12-19T00:13:45Z")
Not from there but I changed trains once in Prince George, having taken trains from Boston to there and then on the Budd railcars down the Fraser River Valley to Vancouver. The Budd Car trip was so rough they gave us pillows to put on our laps on which to place the tv dinner meal trays. Do those or other trains still make that run? ---
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-small-town-in-northern-bc-are-you-from/430492/5 "2007-12-19T00:50:28Z")
[QUOTE=Ludy] I shamefully admit I exaggerated on the Northern a bit. I am from Horsefly. [/QUOTE] I think that counts as Northern. Pretty much anything North of Kamloops is Northern in my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-small-town-in-northern-bc-are-you-from/430492/6 "2007-12-19T01:25:35Z")
Does Tijuana count? ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-small-town-in-northern-bc-are-you-from/430492/7 "2007-12-19T03:40:36Z")
I’m kinda sorta from [Fort St. James](http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=fort+st.+james,+bc&ie=UTF8&ll=54.09806,-125.738525&spn=3.073111,9.84375&z=7&om=1), or more precisely, “Pinchi Creek” (not lake, I know my parents always said ‘creek’), which doesn’t seem to be on the map. I was born in Trail, BC, though, because my mum came “south” for my birth. But Pinchi Creek and Fort St. James are the earliest back in my childhood that I can remember. I would go north in a heartbeat. I mean, real north. I’ve also been lucky enough to live in Alaska. Some people say you either love the north or you hate it, and I’m a northern lover. I miss the aurora every time I look up into a winter sky. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-small-town-in-northern-bc-are-you-from/430492/8 "2007-12-19T03:59:34Z")
White Rock. 8 whole blocks north of Washington State! ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-small-town-in-northern-bc-are-you-from/430492/9 "2007-12-27T04:37:15Z")
Hm. Abbotsford, more or less. 😃 So I’m Southern BC. Not as Southern as White Rock. Grew up there, though. Do you remember the dance hall on the pier? That’s how old I am. 😃 Horsefly? I have a cousin in Horsefly. She has no computer, though. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-small-town-in-northern-bc-are-you-from/430492/10 "2007-12-27T04:47:29Z")
Well I’m not from Northern BC, but I am from Port Alberni on Vancouver Island.