Prince George Throwback Thursday for June 20, 2024

Throwback Thursday for June 20, 2024

The first graduating class of Duchess Park Secondary School appeared in The Citizen 48 years ago this week

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1 / 1 June 21, 1976: Duchess Park’s first graduating class is recorded for posterity. Linda Carson was the valedictorian for the school’s first graduating class, urging her classmates to “go forth into the future with optimism, determination and confidence.” Betty Fernandes was the valedictorian at Prince George Senior Secondary School that year.Citizen photo by Doug Weller

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Here's what was happening in Prince George around this time of year in decades past.

Today we take you back to 1964, 1976, 1989 and 2008.

You can explore local history through newspapers via the Prince George Digitization Project at pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/