History
Kitselas Canyon on the Skeena River in west-central British Columbia is both a dramatic gorge and a major archaeological landscape with about 5,000 years of occupation. Named for the Kitselas, or “people of the deep gorge or narrows,” it preserves petroglyphs, totem poles, culturally modified trees, and the remains of important Tsimshian villages that once controlled trade along this dangerous stretch of river. Its steep walls, divided channels, and strong eddies made navigation notoriously hazardous even after blasting opened passage to steamboats. The canyon later became a difficult railway construction corridor and the focus of brief settlement booms tied to transport and communications.
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