history

 

Did you know that JCI Prince George:

 

  • was reponsible for numbering all the city's houses, prior to Canada Post

 

  • purchased the city's first ambulance and donated it to the city

 

  • organized the first community sports league

 

  • founded the White Spruce Winter Carnival (later became Mardi Gras)

 

  • founded Siman Fraser Days

 

  • sponsored the national recongnized "Dump the Debt" program

 

  • built the city's first swimming pool

 

  • by Royal Proclamation, is the only non-military organization in the world allowed to wear the coveted "bearskin"

 

  • funded the Hans Langner Memorial Scholarship at UNBC

 

  • is self-funding and has never received a government grant