When my Dad built Tumbler Ridge they had daily charter flights from PG going in there where it was free for any of the employees or their family to take, and it was like less then a half hour to get there from PG. The plane landed at a runway that was right next to the work camp. Back then they didn't have a town site yet just 5000 workers living in RV's. The flight was great.. a bit bumpy, I flew it a few of times.

I always wanted to meet the man who built Tumbler Ridge. I heard he was Paul Bunyan's great grandson.
:);)
metalman.

Albian already offers its own charter service to their Jackpine Mine for contractors. They have there own mini airport (trailers), runway and 2 planes (150 seats). There are some good and bad things about the charter service though. Good, Albian's airport is only 5 minutes from the security gate, so no 1.5 - 2 hour drive from Fort McMurray on busy Highway 63(this Enerjet charter, I assume, will land at Fort McMurray's airport). Bad, Albian's flights are only from Vancouver and Kelowna, none are from PG. Also, the flight from Van. is at 8:00 am so you'll probably have to spend the night in Vancouver. But if this new Enerjet service arrives in PG, it'll be great for the community and workers willing to work in Fort McMurray. Cross your fingers!!

I am all for getting this sort of thing started in PG. I just hope that the city is not going to promiss to pay whatever company $500,000.00 if they fail like they did for Horizon Air. Once is enough for this sort of deal made without the tax payers knowlege!!!

I also helped to build Tumbler Ridge.
I worked for Atco Pacific back in those days, Building, servicing, setting up and tearing out Camps all over the north.
We used to drive in from Chetwynd down the goat trail when there was nothing in there but the Atco camps we set up in there.

Was a pretty cool area back then. A few years later my wife and I worked for the Ministry of Highways, me as a mechanic and her with the paving branch. We were fully involved in the building of the hwy from Chetwynd to Tumbler.

Signed
Paul Bunyon's, second cousins uncle

ROTFLMA I always knew lostfaith was a road maintenance contractor lol. I even called you on it before. Thanks for the confirmation :)

My grandparents family company was a general contractor for the mines, and my dad was a crew foreman. They built whole towns (Inuvik for one), and mines/mills back in those days. My dad was part of the team that built Tumbler Ridge would have been a more accurate statement. I was one of the only kids in town back when it was a RV city... and I had log cabins built for forts on the perimeters of the camp (one was even a two story deal) and we had the ditch on the side of the road dug out into a pool so we had a place to swim until the local civic pool was built at the townsite, which was one of the first things they built after the convenience store.... before they even had paved streets. I was just there when school wasn't in but I made a killing recycling all the drunks empties. I had good memories from those almost lawless camps and the wicked awesome river raft races they had in the summers.

I don't think we will ever see anything else like it in our life times... only on a smaller scale.

Aha! yer still a youngin, eagleone ;)
I was there too, helping to install parts of the infrastructure. I remember that goat trail lostfaith, it was actually a series of disparate roads and trails linked together, connecting Chetwynd to the future T.R. Of course there was the proper road between T.R. and hwy. 97 west of D.C. (dawson by the crick) which is now part of the Heritage highway. It was not that great of a road in the early days of T.R. though, I remember some long steep muddy hills where you needed chains, or a hell of a good run at it!
metalman.