Blacksmith Shop

This fully functioning Blacksmith Shop is furnished almost entirely with tools donated by early Prince George blacksmith, John Banzer (1902-1991).

This shop is located across a small creek from Huble’s original homestead on his partner Ed Seebach’s land. The building was recreated in 1995 with information gathered from photographs and oral histories. The original building was likely Mr. Seebach’s home before it was turned into a blacksmith shop. Early photographs show Seebach’s preemption with the house with a meat cache behind it. In oral interviews with Huble’s descendants they identify the building as being used as a blacksmith shop in later years.

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It is also known that as business declined at Giscome Portage, Mr. Seebach was spending more time tending their warehouses and stores at Summit and McLeod Lakes. His cabin at Giscome Portage was likely unused by the time it became a blacksmith shop.