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Dec 1973
70 Mile House, Cariboo Dis, British Columbia
Man told Terry Moore that while driving to south side of Green Lake in moonlight saw tracks crossing the road and going up the bank into deep snow. They sank right through the snow and marked the frozen ground. Prints…
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1975
Princeton, Manning Park, British Columbia
Mary Tate was cross-country skiing in Manning Park when she found and followed big manlike tracks in the snow with a stride too long for a human. She was a doctoral candidate in zoology at the time.
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Jun 1975
Elko, East Kootenay Dis, British Columbia
Jacob Heppner, his wife, daughter and son-in-law, had turned off Highway 3 20 miles west of Elko and driven six miles south of the highway looking for a fishing spot. In a small patch of sand on the bank of…
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1975
Bella Coola, North Bentinck Arm, British Columbia
Keith Corrigan, caretaker at Canadian Fishing Co. buildings at Tallheo, found footprints in snow 16 inches long, 7 to 8 inches wide, with a six-foot stride. Took good colour pictures. John Morton from Cliff Kopas' Store sent copies to John…
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Nov 1975
Sooke, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia
John Barr found about 200 footprints up and down a road, very steep, at the 5 to 600 foot level near Sooke. 17 1/4 by 7 1/4 inches, three toes, big toe curved inwards, 5 1/4 inches long. Stride about…
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Mar 1976
Harrison Hot Spring, Harrison Lake, British Columbia
Robert K. Manning and his girlfriend Laura Kay drove from Green Point picnic site up Harrison East Road. Noted large indentations in old snow beside the road. (Not much snow on road) Turned out to be a larger set on…
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Apr 1976
Merritt, Peterhope Lake, British Columbia
Ron McPherson found old 17 inch tracks back of Peterhope Lake between Kamloops and Merritt. Sure no one there before him. Tracks went from marsh end of little pond, where there was a heel print in mud, up a two-level…
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Jul 1976
Terrace, Skeena Valley Dis, British Columbia
Children found tracks by a slough off the Skeena River. Bob Titmus was notified and made casts on July 17. Tracks were 16 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches with an average stride of 78 inches. They were 1 1/2 inches…
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Apr 1986
Lone Butte, Cariboo Dis, British Columbia
John Duthie and his wife had ascended a hill to look at the view. Down below they could see a small section of curved road, on which a large, dark creature was walking. It turned off the road into the…
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1968
Gosnell, Nor. Thompson Dis, British Columbia
John Duthie and others found large bipedal tracks in snow on logging landing when they returned to work on a Monday. Duthie noted a few tracks near the old bus body used as a tool shack and lunchroom. A full…
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Nov 1976
Anahim Lake, Coast Range, British Columbia
Silas King was driving to Bella Coola from Williams Lake about 3 a.m. in the first snowstorm of the season. Between Red Hill and Young Creek, about 21 miles west of Williams Lake, he saw hugh man-type tracks taking short…
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Sep 1991
Golden, Rogers Pass, British Columbia
Voytek Tertill was driving east on the Trans Canada Highway just past Rogers Pass about 1 a.m. when he saw an animal walking east on the right side of the road on its hind legs. As he went by it…
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Dec 1976
Brittania Beach, Coast Range, British Columbia
Rene Dahinden investigated track report by Harold Hopkins on radio broadcast. No details in my file.
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Jul 1977
Princeton, Manning Park, British Columbia
Forrest Gullett was fishing in the Similkameen River about 2 1/2 miles downstream of Coldspring compground when he found three tracks, estimated only a week old, but rained on, on a sandbank on the river. Showed his father, who took…
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Aug 1977
Chetwynd, Peace River Dis, British Columbia
John Ross, Marilyn Wiles, Brad Wiles, Don Watson and Morgan Watson were on a fishing trip up Bull Moose Creek when Ross found six four-toed footprints with a stride over six feet leading from the creek to rocky bush country.…
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Oct 1977
Endako, Hwy 16, British Columbia
Newspaper photo caption gave no indication as to who found the tracks. They came down an extremely steep embankment, across sand and down to a stream that leads to the Nechako River, walking bipedally. Prints were 12" long and 7"…
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Jul 1978
Wells, Cariboo Dis, British Columbia
Graham Conway, with a group of school staff and students, portaging between Kibbee Lake and Indianpoint Lake on the Bowron Lakes circuit, saw alongside split cross log walkway three tracks in springy peat soil leading from the walkway to the…
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Oct 1978
Kaslo, West Kootenay Dis, British Columbia
Rex Alexander, 19, came on tracks while hunting, after climbing down to an abandoned bridge across Twelve Mile Creek, a tributary on the south side of the Kaslo River, and following an old trail a few hundred feet. Only one…
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Dec 1979
Prince Rupert, North Coast Dis, British Columbia
Marjory Washbrook saw tracks in 6" of snow in her garden at 8 a.m. They went from the sidewalk, which animals also use, down rock steps, over the lawn, up into the neighbour's yard, back into her garden, up on…
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Feb 1980
Bella Coola, Central Coast Dis, British Columbia
Five boys, Deric Snow, Herb Edgar, John Schooner, Don Hans and Gordon Edgar, fishing in the Bella Coola River at Four Mile, near the entrance to Thorsen Creek. Snow found huge footprints on the south bank of the river, appearing…
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Feb 1986
Chilliwack, Fraser Valley Dis, British Columbia
About 4500 foot level on the north face of Mount Cheam, saw tracks coming off a steep incline onto the road, along the road about 100 feet and then off into the logging slash. Tracks were 16 inches long. On…
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Aug 1986
Chilliwack, Fraser Valley Dis, British Columbia
Searching an area where a sighting was reported, Tom Steenburg found tracks on the bank of a small creek in the Chilliwack River valley a mile through the bush from the road. Most were poor, on hard ground and rock.…
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Oct 1988
Courtenay, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia
Dr. John Bindernagel, a wildlife biologist, was following hiking trail at Forbidden Plateau, in Strathcona Park, near Lake Helen Mackenzie. In two muddy patches on the trail about a mile apart he found footprints, three in each patch, 14" long,…
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Sep 1992
Nelson, West Kootenay Dis, British Columbia
Terence Delorme, a wildlife photographer, was doing a movie documentary of the southern Columbia range when he found footprints in the dirt left by an uprooted tree, more than 6000 feet up near the timberline above Midge Creek. No claw…