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Hazelton is a village municipality in the Skeena region of west central British Columbia, Canada. The place is on the southeast side of the Skeena River immediately north of the Bulkley River mouth, where the confluence forms a peninsula. [ 1 ]
New Hazelton is a district municipality on the south side of the Bulkley River in the Skeena region of west central British Columbia, Canada. [1] On BC Highway 16 , the locality is by road about 68 kilometres (42 mi) northwest of Smithers and 137 kilometres (85 mi) northeast of Terrace .
The BC government demanded that the South Hazelton lot buyers be allowed to cancel their purchases. By May 1913, 58 of the 78 owners of the lots sold at auction exercised this option. [31] The rail head reached South Hazelton at the beginning of October 1912 [17] and New Hazelton two weeks later. [32]
ʼKsan is a historical village and living museum of the Gitxsan Indigenous people in the Skeena Country of Northwestern British Columbia, Canada. ʼKsan is located near Hazelton at the confluence of the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers on Gitxsan territory.
Hazelton was named after one of the communities she served, Hazelton, which was one of the oldest towns in Northern British Columbia, having been founded in 1866 and was the main staging area for the Omineca Gold Rush. Robert Cunningham had Hazelton built to run against the sternwheelers of the Hudson's Bay Company, Caledonia and Strathcona.
Tsimshian translates to "Inside the Skeena River" [6] At one time the Tsimshian lived on the upper reaches of the Skeena River near present-day Hazelton, British Columbia. According to southern Tsimshian oral history , after a series of disasters befell the people, a chief led a migration away from the cursed land to the coast, where they ...
Hamilton Public Library Local History & Archives Department: Hamilton: ON: Regional Hazelton Pioneer Museum & Archives: Hazelton: BC: Community Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives & Research Collection: Toronto: ON: University/College Heritage North Museum Archives: Thompson: MB: Regional Historical Society of Ottawa, Bytown Museum Archives: Ottawa: ON ...
The Jasper–Prince Rupert train (formerly the Skeena and Panorama, [4] now known as Trains 5/6, sometimes called The Rupert Rocket) [5] is a Canadian passenger train service operated by Via Rail between Jasper, Alberta, Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia.