PAGE 4 “i, ale . - The Hazelton. region is one of British Columbia’s most historic and scenic areas. © To make it easier for the visitor to enjoy both the history and the seenety, @ tour through the atea has been mapped and marked, selecting «for par- ticular. attention. 20 places of special interest. The tour may be started at ‘any point and a circular route followed back to the starting place. ’ ‘Throughout the tour, History is King! Scenery is Queen! 1. Minskinish, The Holy City. — Among the missionaries who brought the European way of . -life.to the area. was Robert Tomlinson. Here at Minskinish, .Tomlinson - founded a’ strict, deeply religious sect. Versatile as he was strict. Tomlinson soon . built a: prosperous community with.. church, sawmill, farth, vegetable gardens, windowed- houses, and a gaol, The gaol was'.an absolute“ must in -Tomlinson's: ° society.. : a - The. bell mounted here. once pealed in. Tomlinson's church. from: Minskinish (Cedar- _ vale) follaw the Skeena River triver of Tears, according to an inland Indian legend) upstream ~ past’ points, that presented . fantastic hazards.to those who used the river as their highway —First, Indians in great dugout canoes; later, traders and explorers. in shallow-draught . boats. . . The first 'sternwheel river boatsto attempt the Skeena were the. Union in 1864 and the .. Mumford in 1866. The Mumford made: it upstream but was unable to master Kitselas Canyon.” Rock was blasted out ofthe canyon in the late 1600's, and from 1890 to 1913 a suc- cession of more than 15 boats “plied the river. Approximately 25 miles from Cedarvale turn left into:— 2. Kicseguelca Indian Village. — The totem poles here as throughout the area are carved .. disciplined ... The Herald - -from red cedar and are usually _ erected as the final ritual when anew chief lakes over from his. deceased predecessor. The - carvings depict incidents in a family’s history and frequently indecate certain territorial = righis and privileges that ac- crue tothe owner and his family by virtue of these incidents. The poles have no religious significance. No pole in the area is more than 130 years old. Return to the highway and you soon reach: 3 2. Skeena Crossing and the ‘Railroad Bridge. — This ‘community bustled with ac- tivity in river-boat days, partly because. of the massing ot equipment here needed to bridge the river and partly because of mining: activity in the surrounding mountains. - Landowners of the time locked forward to the day when their property would be in the-centre of a second Chicago. The largest hostelry in northern British Columbia, the Copper -Tavern, once stood proudly here, and the community published its own newspaper, the Skeena Calcopyrite. . Proceeding 8 miles along the highway you come to: | 4. Seeley Lake.-- Nestled at the foot of Rocher Deboule’ Mountain, Seeley Lake, the “Place of Pavilions” of Indian legend, is the site of a Provincial park campground and picnic-ground. Cutthroat trout Jure fishermen to the lake, and its reasonably warm walefs beckon swiinmers in the. summer, . Another 4 miles along the highway and you are at: + - §, South Hazelton. —- A mile and a half from South Hazelton near the junction of Bulidey and Skeena Rivers is Mission Point and ‘the house where British Columbia’s ‘most famous “Packer”, Cataline, spent his last dzys. Nearby are twa fine fishing-spots and a good 2 £ Courteous friendly Service Crossing - . Bene, Date Store Photo Supplies | Gifts & China Stationery . vy) ‘Sundries Greeting Cards Hazelton Tourist Editian cow 272 5 phe; Merald = Hazelton Tourist Edition. “camping-place. Three miles’ beyond South Hazelton is a major junction. Turn right and you are at: 6. The New Hazelton Bank -Robheries.— British Colum- bia’s last big “‘sheot out”. In railraad-constructian. limes banks carried large sums. of eash in order to meet payrolls. The cash naturally enticed robbers. And the robbers committed robberies. In the last of these robberies five robbers were killed or. wounded. The sixth got away. He had the cash. Return to the junction, turn right and follow the Hazelton — Kispiox road. Within less than a mile you reach one of the most photogenic scenes in Canada: i. «Hagwilget Canyon Bridge— At the pullout, view one of nature’s artisitic . triumphs. On the banks below vthe bridge archaelogists have found evidence of at least 4,000 years of human occupancy. ‘Upstream, at the river’s narrowest point, stood the . bridge déscribed on the plague. the Carrier Indian Missionary-visionary is buried here. Rocher Deboule Moun- lain, or SLykyawdenthl, towers to the south. Countless legends centre around this mountain. Particularly interesting is the legend “in which Rocher Deboule was the home of one.- ‘horned - goat who brought about the destruction of those who lived in the Indian Paradise of Temlaham. , Continuing down. the road, watch for a large group of buildings in a birch grove on your left. This is: ~ 8, Wrinch Memorial Hospital — The hospital is named for Dr. ‘ Horace Cooper Wrinch, a preatly respected missionary doctor whoarrived in Hazelton . in 1904 and soon built whal was for many years the only hospital in northern B.C, - Xu ‘ . 2, Kitseguecla Indian Village. 3. Skeena Crossing and Railroad Bridge. Pavilions. ~~ 5. South Hazelton and Mission Paint : 6. New Hazelton Bank Rob- beries { Bridge. 8. Wrinch Memorial Hospital. 9. Totem Park Stadium. 10. ‘Ksan Indian Village and Campground. ; ; li. - Hazelton, the Head of Navigation. a 12. Indian and. Pioneer Cemetery. - 13, Outlaw Territary, The Land of Gunanoct. ‘ Indian Village... 15. Temlaham, the. Paradise Lost of the Gitskan. 16. Kitwancodl, Famous for Tolem Poles dian Fortress = - 19. The Reaction Ferry- The Holy City. an Eadly Mission - from the Mas 1. Minskinish, The Holy City, 4. Seeley Lake, the Place of 7. Hagwilget Canyon and 14. Fort Stager and Kispiox ~ 17,- The Man-made Hill or In- is, The Kitwanga Totem Poles. A The Seven Sisters thost Ancient and. = >" Finest ‘Totem Poles". wee a Kirwancnel . \ Kitwanga River : - _ Skeena Rive, JO cae! ' Tembaham, the OG * Garden of Eden af SS > othe Githsan Indians if a/c} es welton ‘Area - Northwest there are very few | -! ( feasts and dances as enjoyable any _ P}-as these hosted by the ‘Ksan before. thing I’ve ever tasted : > PAGE 5 ~ oom a ts . . There are few things more : _ Grouse. . . - “Indian Greasé Teal arcs _ enjoyable than a feast followed ‘| A |- Luxw-: There were laso two other of. -° LP py dancing. And in the Pacific - - ' dances whi brought most of the ‘audience lo it’s feet, par- ticpating, along with the ‘Ksan ‘Dancers. The first was the Ani J] Historic Indian village. Such.a Paper thin pieces of smoked ‘dim hanak.’ The An dim hanak’ V1] feast was held last Thursday and dried salmon were next and. is the dance where the relatives ‘L | -evening in.‘Ksan jn honour of then some pieces of wild Indian, of the chief dance to the front of -] | “iwo visitng groups, one a tour rubarb. The rhubarb was crisp - the hall and throw money into a bus full of Vancouverites from . - Columbia's e L (pi :“ Education branch and the other. this writer) and spruce noodles, - from longstrandsofspruce sap, With relatives and, as each name “group of school Children ce Si well a sweet, almost. unvelieveable Hartley . Bay. As wlan. ras ‘representatives’ of Uhe press, laste. ° Uy ates Wd ineluding this writer, and . several samll groups of .cam- : grounds wee on hand. Festivities began shortly’ guesis walked through th ‘totem pole door in the feast house and took their seats to the - beat of drums and the singing cf pare they looked like - pink e Limx Lamja - the seating Un’ y e . § ~where oe e whipped cream. Each of the wes the K'oo loo halayt-wh chief guests was given a carved scoop he and the Indian women danced .. s around the hall with huge earved bowls from which the frothberry -was scooped. The frothberry was sweet on the aq front of-Uhe Longue. ; back and just all raund good. The feasting finally done, the dacing commenced. ’ The first was a Smax- the Bear Nax Nok dance” --in ‘which a ‘Ksan dancer, beautifully. dressed in “a bear skin and carved bear mask who lened loaves of bread that had was led around the hall. Nax in oi , nok is power beyond the human. song. At appropriate int the arrival of thé grea would be announced and t chief would be seated. In thi case though, the chief.s were .. chesen al random-from among. ‘| the guests as they entered. © ‘| -., Next came the Limx lokw, |) feasting song, during which two of the. ‘Ksan dancers sym- ; ‘ bolically ‘killed ’ the food that: “N. [was about to be served. The n it anda ing of ric also 3 Tjdeorder cf sea-wead Nok bul this time a single which this writer was told had laste not wilike that of spinach, S¥aua: Ewouldn’t know. The one small work - oll ‘Further along the road beyond the hospital past the Kispiox Road, and on your right is: 9, Totem Park Stadium.— The only stadium in the world witha border of ancient totem poles. You have been following the Bulkley River and are nearing its junction with the Skeena- River at: : 10. ‘Ksan Indian Village and Campground— ‘Ksan, with its five buildings in various styles . of Indian architecture, tells the story of the Gitskan Indian architecture, tells the story of the Gitskan (People of the Skeena) from the days before - the first traders arrived, to the present, At ‘Ksan Village, authentic Indian handicrafts are for sale, produced in the village by skilled craftsmen. Beyond ‘Ksan is; “1. Hazellon-~ _ Smallest incorporated village in B.C. | Hazelton (Gitanmaks) was an Indian’ trading centre long § . before the whita traders settled here in 18658. Hazelton abounds in “firsts”. in- Skeena River history; first church, ‘first Government office, first Hudson's Bay pest, first leg af the “All Red Route to the In- terior”, and Mile 0 of the “Poor Mazn’s route to the Klondike.” The Village Office and Library built lo resemble a river boat, marks the head of navigation in river-boat days. The Gitemkulda Totem pole, carved. in 1870, stands beside the library. fo : ‘. Return from Hazelton and ‘Ksan past Totem Park and turn ‘left tothe Kitwanga — Kispiox Road and turn left again down a- grassy trail to: 12, Hazelton’s Indian and Pioneer Cemetery— Buried here are famous Indian chiefs and pioneers, including George Biernes, Cataline, Dick Sargent, James May, and Dave Wiggins. ‘Twenty-two Indian. grave-houses formerly stood in the cemetery. Stone markers tell to which tribe ancient chieftains | belanged. A magnificiem -view of Rocher. Deboule and the junction of the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers may be seen from the brow af the hill. “s- mone Return along the grassy trail, and turn left at the gravel roa and proceed ta: : 13. Outlaw Territory —. -. British Columbia's most - famous manhunt took place in. this area over the best part of twa’ decades. Here is the. signature of the man. they. sought: : Simon P. Gunanoot. - Travel another 8 miles and. you reach: ; a (14, Fort Stager and Kispiox , Valley Indian Village— Kispiox . (the people who hid) has an impressive -stand of tatem.: :.. poles and a community hall, with unusual architectural features. The great red blotch — on the ‘mountain behind the. village is said lo have been’. - coloured by-the blood of: a supernatural monster that was killed at that spot. cs Down stream at the junction of the Kispiox and Skeena Rivers stood Fort Stager, the: mest northerly depot’ built by. . the Collins Overland Telegraph. - Company, who had planned a telegraph line to.Europe via the - Yukon and Siberia... When the Atlantic - Cable was laid, this route was abandonded and the "History throu h the Enchanting H stock-piled materials left for - grabs. Rumour has it that a goodly supply of rum and other spirits. was also abandoned, Lo 16; Kitwanceot— The Odes! totem pole in the world still standing in its originial location Ba ig here, as well as a collection of -.: the. finest examples of the totem-pole carvers’ art. “Fo Return to Kitwancool to the - junction of the Kitwanga road. + On the right Is: 11.. The Fore Fortess— Variously named the Fortes, : | Battle Hill, -or Man-Made Hill, recent research indicates this mound was indeed a fortified encampment of at least four - buildings.. -Follow the Kitwanga road 4 miles, cross the railroad tracks, : and you will find: 18.. The Kitwanga Totem Poles— Further examples of the totem-pole carvers’ art. . Return over the railroad, turn left-beyond the pole yard, and . follow the Skeena River. A panorama of the Seven Sisters Mountain Range is seen to the left. Continue alang .the road eross the river al Cedarvale on. the: - 19. Reaction Ferry— The crossing af Skeena River is made on one of the last water-~ driven ferries in North America. - And, at this beautiful spot we 7 bid you “Farewell”. and hope that your visit and tour will always be cherished memories and ask that you come again. mouthfull managed wasuali.. T’isaswx- Box 190 Harelton , bitter at the ttibution. People Lax nogam evening ended. places as vancouver, Ray, Texas, Toronto, and even Finaldn ‘were. calied. as the] guests contributed. $74 to the} ‘Ksan Dancers Fund, which will] go toward the, cost of new costumes and other items used ‘The final dance of the evening . d finely fibered with a sur- Jarge bark basket to help the University. of British prisingly sweet tast~. Herring contriiuce to the cast of the eontinuing eggs wereserved (passedupby feast. For this particular feast there were a good. many , " was called, they danced to thet As a concession lo front - to, make madern Limes freshie and coffee were available ta-the guests. ‘from the. ‘Ksan camp The feasting was followed by _along prayer from a Kitwanga heriditary high chief, partly in ° after 7 p.m. as the assembled English and partly in Gitksan. e Then came the dancing and the last dish in the ban -The treat was frothberry - ; apberries - thal were beaten int eh dancing their con- fram such Hartley}. - ithe Nax Nok plays - games, posseseing different groups in| the audience in turn. As the Nax) Nok. was released from the main dancer, another dancer would throw it into one section of the room. In that ‘section all guests were required Lo get up and dance. The Nak Nox was then thrown back to the catcher. who wauld pick another corner -oftheroom. back to the catcher]. who would pick another corner! af. the room. The spirit was finally wrestled outside and the The. feasting and dancing, which last for just over an ho and a half, was just a. short representation of similary . celebrations that would . have - “Jasted for several days in the oldj . days. It was truly an enjoyable night and any-one who has the} _ . opportunity tg attend one of thes - feasts,.a rare opportunity in deed, is urged to take it up. - Groceries While in Hazelton Shop at the Bay For GROCERIES | _ FRESH MEAT . MILK PRODUCE - CLOTHING: | TOYS Monday — Saturday. _ FISHING TACKLE _ BABY NEEDS _ REGORDS cumins surrues-| | CLOSED ALL DAY WEDNESDAY vty cae