Welcome to
Mackenzie & District Museum
Explore our valley, from Summit Lake to Sifton Pass,
from Germansen Landing to Azouzetta Lake.
Marge McDougall
Fuerat aestu carentem habentia spectent tonitrua mutastis locavit liberioris inistra possedit.
LeTourneau Tree Crusher
Fuerat aestu carentem habentia spectent tonitrua mutastis locavit liberioris inistra possedit.
The Mackenzie Times
Fuerat aestu carentem habentia spectent tonitrua mutastis locavit liberioris inistra possedit.
In 1964 the prospect of abundant forest resources and available power led BC Forest Products to announce it would spend $60 million building a “forestry complex” in the region.
As part of the development, the town of Mackenzie was established by Alexander Forest Industries (later acquired by BC Forest Products in 1967) and Cattermole Timber (later partnered with Jujo Paper in 1970 to create Finlay Forest Industries), to house a workforce for the forest industry.
The Rocky Mountain Trench, also known as “The Valley of a Thousand Peaks” or simply the “Trench”, extends 1,600 kilometers (990 miles) from Flathead Lake, Montana, to the Liard River south of the British Columbia-Yukon border near Watson Lake, Yukon. This valley separates the Rocky Mountains to the east from the Columbia Mountains and the Cassiar Mountains to the west.
The Trench is drained by four major river basins: the Columbia, Fraser, Peace and Liard. Summit Lake, north of Prince George is at the low-elevation continental divide between the Pacific (e.g., Fraser River) and Arctic (e.g., Peace River) drainages, demarking the Northern Rocky Mountain Trench from the Southern Rocky Mountain Trench.
Museum Hours:
July & August
Tuesday to Saturday
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
September to June
Tuesday to Saturday
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Reciprocal
Memberships:
Personal – $25.00
Couple – $35.00
Family – $50.00
Friends of the
Museum:
$10.00
Address:
86 Centennial Drive
Mackenzie, B.C. V0J2C0
250-997-3021
museum@mackbc.com