Smithers is a town in northwestern
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that ...
, approximately halfway between
Prince George and
Prince Rupert
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, (17 December 1619 ( O.S.) 7 December 1619 (N.S.)– 29 November 1682 (O.S.) December 1682 (N.S) was an English-German army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial governor. He first rose to ...
. With a population of 5,378 in 2021, Smithers provides service coverage for most of the
Bulkley Valley
The Bulkley Valley is in the northwest Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada.
Geography
The Bulkley, a stream running through Houston, British Columbia, joins the larger Morice River about to the west. At the confluence, they become no ...
.
History
Region
First Nations settlements existed thousands of years prior to European presence.
Railway
The planned
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) required two major divisional points in BC, where additional staff and facilities would be located. After
Prince George, various central points on the Prince Rupert leg were considered in the vicinity of
Aldermere. A prime choice was Hubert, east of Telkwa, initially called Bulkley by the developers, who had amassed the surrounding land. These speculators promoted a future new city, and later a trade centre of the Bulkley Valley, both fallacious claims, since Smithers had already been selected as the divisional point. The Interior News of Aldermere had earlier adopted a policy of refusing advertising from such unscrupulous promoters. The Aldermere Board of Trade was hostile to the idea of Telkwa itself being the divisional headquarters, allegedly because the rail yards would destroy the alder groves. In reality, they likely foresaw that even a station would soon relocate their community down to the stop.
The speculators had not considered the swampy ground west of Telkwa at the foot of
Hudson Bay Mountain. Averse to sharing land sale profits with speculators, the GTP made this their headquarters, creating Smithers, named after
Sir Alfred Smithers, chair of the GTP board. During 1913, the Railway Commission approved the station site as the second divisional point in March.
Surveying started in April, 100 of the 160 acres of town site were cleared by August, and 160 acres of railyards by September. The railhead advanced by in July, and the first passenger train arrived in October.
With the standard quarter portion reserved for government facilities, the GTP began marketing plots that month. Despite ditches for draining, the subsoil was layers of quicksand and clay, requiring pile driving for building foundations. Pleas to the GTP to address the swampy road conditions fell on deaf ears.
The temporary train station, built in 1915, was replaced in 1919 by a Plan 100‐166 station building. For decades, the railway remained the dominant employer, but from the 1950s, employee numbers gradually dwindled, and buildings became redundant. In 1994, the Smithers Community Services Association purchased the listed station building.
Town layout
Professional landscape architects designed the street layout to accommodate a potential 10,000 people, and the municipality largely followed this plan over subsequent decades. In recent decades, expansion has adopted modern planning concepts, instead of the original grid pattern. However, the original design ignored the topography and soil conditions. Consequently, some lots on slopes, creeks or flood plains could not be developed. Main Street was the commercial core, with the train station and Alfred Park at one end and Central (formerly City Hall) Park at the other (now the intersection with
Highway 16). Residential development radiated outward. In 1925, the government built a combined courthouse/provincial offices within the latter park. Main Street implemented an alpine theme in 1972.
Commerce & population
The Seymour Lake Lumber Company, having a 15,000-foot capacity per shift mill, was producing 10,000 feet of lumber daily to keep up with the building boom. Swampy land with canvas tents and shacks became what the Omenica Miner described in October 1913 as "the best district in British Columbia."
The Telkwa Tribune, renamed the Smithers Tribune, relocated and the Smithers Review opened. By 1914, there were the two newspapers, two banks, three churches, a three-storey hotel, stores, a telephone system and an electricity supply. Stores and services comprised six rooming houses, five restaurants, four general stores, doctor, dentist, drugstore, hardware store, sawmill, planing mill, two lumber yards, plumber, sheet iron worker, sign works, three contracting firms, two laundries, two poolrooms, livery stable, meat market, shoe shop, and two real estate firms.
After the 1914 Telkwa fire, which destroyed 13 downtown buildings, many businesses relocated to Smithers, a community of 125 permanent buildings and 700 people. The sizable GTP payroll provided a solid base to attract further settlers and businesses. Initial optimism projected a 5,000 population by 1915, which was finally achieved in 1991. The population, that fell during
World War I
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, was 350 in 1918, and 520 in 1920.
Volunteers contained two 1921 fires. The power plant one caused $10,000 damage to a cold storage plant. Months later, two adjacent hotels burned to the ground. By 1925, the population was about 1,000. A 1930 fire caused $25,000 damage to the Hudson Bay Lumber sawmill on the western outskirts A.S. Sargent permanently closed his store after a 1931 fire. During the
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and ...
, many businesses closed, and the population hovered around 700.
From the 1940s, many small independent bush mills supplied the two local planer mills. The population increased from 1,204 in 1951 to 2,487 in 1961, 4,570 by 1981, and peaked at 5,624 in 1996.
Public institutions & amenities
The post office completed, J. Mason Adams was the inaugural postmaster 1913–14.
He operated the first drug store in Telkwa. The Smithers Citizens Association, formed in December 1913, provided leadership, but could not levy taxes. Miss Mary K. Downey was the initial teacher at the school established in April 1914. In 1915, a permanent building replaced temporary accommodation in the Methodist Church. Citizen donations provided a $15,000 community hall. In 1920, the premier opened the two-storey hospital, which provided 15 beds on remodelling. Smithers became the first incorporated village for BC in 1921.
During the Depression, the basic rural road network was built, the golf course opened in 1931, the airfield in 1933, a fire truck was purchased, the Bulkley Valley District Hospital (staffed by the Sisters of St. Anne until 1969) opened in 1934, and the Dominion Experimental Farm in 1938. Highway 16 was completed to Prince Rupert in 1944. A 1947 referendum approved a town water supply. In 1967, when Smithers became a town, J.F. MacDonald was the first mayor. The combined library/museum built that year housed the books previously shelved in the Municipal Hall garage since 1955. A decade later, the museum moved to the Central Park building, allowing the library to expand. In 1976, the province moved the regional office from Prince Rupert. The Bulkley Valley Regional Pool and Recreation Centre opened in 1990.
Education, health & emergency services
School District 54 Bulkley Valley is one of the largest employers, and three private schools operate. A
Coast Mountain College campus provides tertiary education. The Smithers Public Library is open 5–9 hours daily on 6 days per week. The Bulkley Valley Museum has similar restricted opening times.
The Bulkley Valley Regional Pool and Recreation Centre is open daily. The Bulkley Valley District Hospital is a 25-bed acute care facility.
A 40-person volunteer fire department, and three-ambulance base exist.
The
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; , GRC) is the Law enforcement in Canada, national police service of Canada. The RCMP is an agency of the Government of Canada; it also provides police services under contract to 11 Provinces and terri ...
detachment serves Smithers, Telkwa, Fort Babine Reserve, and the Moricetown First Nations Reserve.
Smithers and area now has a BC Emergency Support Services team.
Transportation
Air Canada
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,
Central Mountain Air, charter airlines, and helicopter companies, provide multiple daily flights.
VIA Rail
Via Rail Canada Inc. (), operating as Via Rail or Via (stylized as VIA Rail), is a Canadian Crown corporation that operates intercity passenger rail service in Canada.
As of December 2023, Via Rail operates 406 trains per week across eight ...
's
Jasper-Prince Rupert makes a scheduled stop three times a week in each direction.
When
Greyhound cancelled this route in 2019, BC Bus North, became the replacement operator for a twice weekly service.
Culture
Smithers and the
Bulkley Valley
The Bulkley Valley is in the northwest Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada.
Geography
The Bulkley, a stream running through Houston, British Columbia, joins the larger Morice River about to the west. At the confluence, they become no ...
have often been described by non-residents as the somewhat culturally unique to the rest of Northern British Columbia. Many factors contribute to the composition of society in Smithers, including the arts, industry smoke stacks outside of town from mills and mining.
Smithers has adopted an alpine theme, which is drawn from the
geography of the area. A town bylaw requires businesses in the downtown area centred on Main Street to construct their buildings in an alpine style. A
fibreglass
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statue of a man blowing an
alpine horn, commonly referred to as ''The Alpenman'' or ''Alpine Al'', is located at the entrance to the main street and has become the town symbol. Similarly, the Smithers
chamber of commerce
A chamber of commerce, or board of trade, is a form of business network. For example, a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses. Business owners in towns and cities form these local societies to a ...
displays an ''Alpine Al'' costume at community events and in television advertisements for the town's businesses.
Residents of Smithers are called ''Smithereens'' which remains a more popularly accepted
demonym
A demonym (; ) or 'gentilic' () is a word that identifies a group of people ( inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place. Demonyms are usually derived from the name of the place ( hamlet, village, town, city, region, ...
than the sometimes used 'Smitherite'.
Smithereens have a particularly strong environmental ethic. In 2006, over 600 Smithereens took to the streets to voice their opposition to a proposed
coalbed methane
''Coalbed methane'' (CBM or coal-bed methane), coalbed gas, or coal seam gas (CSG) is a form of natural gas extracted from coal beds. In recent decades it has become an important source of energy in United States, Canada, Australia, and other co ...
gas field near
Telkwa, which they claimed would threaten local water quality, landscape integrity and
wild salmon populations.
Likewise a proposal by Thompson Creek Metals to develop a molybdenum mine to extract the Davidson deposit on Hudson Bay Mountain near the town was vigorously opposed over a period of years before TCM abandoned the project.
Smithers and the Bulkley Valley are home to many musicians, including
Juno-Award-winning Alexis Puentes. The biggest assembly of musical talent happens during the annual Mid-Summer Music Festival in late June. Over the years, the Mid-Summer Music Festival has seen some famous acts like
Spirit of the West and the
Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies (BNL) is a Canadian Rock music, rock band which was formed in 1988 in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, Ontario. The band developed a following in Canada, with their Barenaked Ladies (EP), self-titled 1991 cassette becoming th ...
and has drawn audiences and participants from all across North America.
The Della Herman Theatre, named after a longtime resident and former school board official, is the primary venue for shows and performances, though several pubs and even open fields serve as secondary performance venues. Numerous organizations including the Bulkley Valley Community Arts Council operate to keep music and other artistic activities vibrant.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; ), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It is headquartered in ...
, Smithers had a population of 5,378 living in 2,313 of its 2,411 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 5,401. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
The latest census, taken in 2016, recorded 5,351 residents in 1,435 families of an average size of 2.9 persons.
Ethnicity
Religion
According to the
2021 census, religious groups in Smithers included:
*
Irreligion
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(2,780 persons or 52.9%)
*
Christianity
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(2,290 persons or 43.5%)
*
Sikhism
Sikhism is an Indian religion and Indian philosophy, philosophy that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent around the end of the 15th century CE. It is one of the most recently founded major religious groups, major religio ...
(95 persons or 1.8%)
*
Judaism
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(35 persons or 0.7%)
*
Buddhism
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(10 persons or 0.2%)
*
Hinduism
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(10 persons or 0.2%)
*Other (40 persons or 0.8%)
Notable residents
Hockey players
Despite its small population, Smithers has produced several notable professional
ice hockey
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players:
* Brothers
Joe Watson and
Jimmy Watson: won the
Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup () is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America, and the International Ic ...
as
defencemen with the
Philadelphia Flyers
The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia. The Flyers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference (NHL), Eastern Conference. The team play ...
in the 1973–74 and 1974-75 seasons. Jimmy Watson was a five-time
NHL All-Star game
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selection and played for
Team Canada at the
Canada Cup
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in 1976. Joe Watson was a two-time NHL All-Star. Both are members of the Flyers Hall of Fame. In their active years, the Watson brothers held an annual hockey school that included the "mid-summer" hockey game.
* Brothers
Ron Flockhart (NHL career 1980-1991) and
Rob Flockhart, played for the Smithers Nats in the Pacific Northwest Hockey League (P.N.W.H.L), that played for the Fowler Cup in the 1970s.
*
Alan Kerr: played for the
New York Islanders
The New York Islanders (colloquially known as the Isles) are a professional ice hockey team based in Elmont, New York. The Islanders compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference (N ...
,
Detroit Red Wings
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and
Winnipeg Jets
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in the 1980s and 1990s
*
Dan Hamhuis: retired NHL
defenceman
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who played for the
Nashville Predators
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,
Vancouver Canucks
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, and
Dallas Stars
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. He won an Olympic gold medal with the
2014 Canadian Olympic team.
*
Michael Wall: goalie for the
Colorado Avalanche
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(Traded 2007)
*
Ron Homenuke: forward for the
Vancouver Canucks
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. Career ended abruptly after a
hiking
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"Hi ...
accident. He later became a
missionary
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.
*
Adam Kingsmill: ice sledge hockey player.
Others
*
Dean Brody, country musician
*
Peter Capak, Astrophysicist
*
Robert Chaplin, artist and publisher
*
Lisa Conway, musician and sound artist
*
Alex Cuba, musician
*
Nathan Cullen
Nathan Paul Cullen (born July 13, 1972) is a Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (MLA) representing the riding of Stikine (provincial electoral district), Stikine from 2020 to 2024 as a memb ...
, federal politician
*
Tobin Frank, musician with the Canadian band
Spirit of the West
*
Andrew George, Jr., chef and publisher
*
Ruth Hamblin, professional basketball player in Australia (formerly
WNBA)
*
Gina Holden, actress
*
Daniel Imhof, professional soccer player at
VfL Bochum
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(
Germany
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)
*
Susan Juby, novelist, author
*
Alicia Kaye, Canadian triathlete
*
Dan Mangan, musician
*
Robin Mathews, poet, political activist, playwright, teacher, essayist
*
Graham Roumieu, author and illustrator
*
Antje von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Canadian Olympic rower
Recreation
Smithers is known for its world class skiing and fishing (in particular for
steelhead
Steelhead, or occasionally steelhead trout, is the Fish migration#Classification, anadromous form of the coastal rainbow trout or Columbia River redband trout (''O. m. gairdneri'', also called redband steelhead). Steelhead are native to cold-wa ...
). Other popular activities include soccer, volleyball, hockey, baseball, downhill mountain biking, cross-country skiing, hiking, quadding and snowmobiling. Smithers offers a variety of extreme sports, for example quadding in the back country, snowmobiling in the surrounding mountains, paragliding, or mountain biking down Hudson Bay Mountain. Smithers is known for its variety of recreation.
Geography
West of Smithers are
Witset,
New Hazelton,
Kitwanga,
Thornhill,
Terrace
Terrace may refer to:
Landforms and construction
* Fluvial terrace, a natural, flat surface that borders and lies above the floodplain of a stream or river
* Terrace, a street suffix
* Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk a ...
,
Kitimat
Kitimat is a district municipality in the North Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. It is a member municipality of the Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine regional government. The Kitimat Valley is part of the most populous urban dist ...
,
Port Edward and
Prince Rupert
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, (17 December 1619 ( O.S.) 7 December 1619 (N.S.)– 29 November 1682 (O.S.) December 1682 (N.S) was an English-German army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial governor. He first rose to ...
, while to the east are
Telkwa,
Houston
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,
Topley,
Burns Lake,
Fraser Lake,
Fort Fraser,
Vanderhoof and
Prince George.
Climate
Smithers has a
humid continental climate
A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...
, (
Dfb,) although it used to be a
subarctic climate
The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a continental climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers. It is found on large landmasses, often away from the moderating effects of ...
. Winters are cold and cloudy but highly variable with a January average of . Snow is the main type of precipitation during winter. Warm spells can push temperatures above freezing during the winter months, while cold weather systems can reduce the temperature to less than . The average annual snowfall is , with maximum accumulations of snow tending to happen in February when the average snow depth is . Summers are warm, with average highs of about and an extreme high of . Nighttime temperatures are often cool, with normal nighttime lows just under . Depending on the year, there may be very little or a lot of precipitation. Spring and fall are short transition seasons. Smithers receives an average of of precipitation a year, with February through April being the driest months. Smithers receives 1,621 hours of bright sunshine a year, ranging from a minimum of 12% of possible sunshine in December to a maximum of 47% of possible sunshine in August.
Movies and television
* Disney's ''
Eight Below
''Eight Below'', originally titled ''Antartica: The Journey Home'', is a 2006 American survival drama film, a remake based on the 1983 Japanese film ''Antarctica'' by Toshirô Ishidô, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Tatsuo Nogami, and Susumu Saji. It was pr ...
'', starring
Paul Walker
Paul William Walker IV (September 12, 1973 – November 30, 2013) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Brian O'Conner in the ''Fast & Furious'' franchise.
Paul Walker began his career as a child actor in the 1980s, gainin ...
and
Jason Biggs
Jason Matthew Biggs (born May 12, 1978) is an American actor. The accolades he has received include a Screen Actors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award, alongside nominations for a Daytime Emmy Awards, Daytime Emmy Award and a Satellite Award ...
, was partially filmed there.
* The film ''
The Grey'', starring
Liam Neeson
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and
Dermot Mulroney
Dermot Patrick Mulroney (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor and musician. He is known for his roles in a wide variety of genres, including romantic comedy, western, and drama films. After making his film debut in ''Sunset'' (1988), Mulro ...
, was partially filmed there. It was mostly shot in
Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...
.
* The film ''
The Mother'', starring
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969), also known by her nickname J.Lo, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer and businesswoman. Lopez is regarded as one of the most influential entertainers of her time, credited with breaking ...
, was partially filmed there.
* The
Comedy Network show, ''
Alice, I Think'', is set in Smithers; however, it is not filmed there, aside from location shots.
* Smithers was referenced in the show ''
How I Met Your Mother
''How I Met Your Mother'' (often abbreviated as ''HIMYM'') is an American sitcom created by Craig Thomas (screenwriter), Craig Thomas and Carter Bays for CBS. The series, which aired from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014, follows main char ...
'' (Season 7, Episode 6 - Mystery Vs. History).
Media
Television
Smithers is served by four television stations, three of which rebroadcast using transmitters owned by the Houston-Smithers Rebroadcasting Society:
Radio
Smithers is served by six radio stations:
Notes
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