Bulkley RiverThe Bulkley River in British Columbia is a major tributary of the Skeena River. The Bulkley is 257 kilometres (160 mi) long with a drainage basin covering 12,400 square kilometres (4,800 mi). Much of the Bulkey is paralleled by Highway 16. It flows west from Bulkley Lake past and is joined near Houston by the Morice River, its major tributary. The Bulkley continues north past , Telkwa and Smithers. It then meets the Skeena River near Hazelton.
Grand Trunk Pacific RailwayThe Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (reporting markGTP) was a historic Canadian transcontinental railway running from Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, a Pacific coast port. East of Winnipeg the line continued as the National Transcontinental Railway (NTR), running across northern Ontario and Quebec, crossing the St. Lawrence River at Quebec City and ending at Moncton, New Brunswick.
Zymoetz RiverThe Zymoetz River (formerly Copper River) is a tributary of the Skeena River in northwestern part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. From its source in the Bulkley Ranges of the Hazelton Mountains the Zymoetz River flows southeast for about 145 km (90 mi) to empty into the Skeena River in the Zaimoetz 5 Indian Reserve of the Kitselas First Nation. The Zymoetz River's drainage basin covers 3,026 km (1,168 sq mi).
TelkwaTelkwa is a village located along British Columbia Highway 16, nearly 15 kilometres (9 mi) southeast of the town of Smithers and 350 kilometres (220 mi) west of the city of Prince George, in northwest British Columbia, Canada. HistorySettlement in the area began around 1904 in a townsite known as Aldermere on the hill above Telkwa. Around 1907, people began to move down the hill to be closer to water supplies and the anticipated route of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.Skeena RiverThe Skeena River is the second-longest river entirely within British Columbia, Canada (after the Fraser River). Since ancient times, the Skeena has been an important transportation artery, particularly for the Tsimshian and the Gitxsan—whose names mean "inside the River of Mist", and "people of the River of Mist", respectively.
Hazelton, British ColumbiaHazelton 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. On BC Highway 62, the locality is by road about 75 kilometres (47 mi) northwest of Smithers and 144 kilometres (89 mi) northeast of Terrace.
Foley, Welch and StewartFoley, Welch and Stewart was an early 20th-century American-Canadian railroad construction partnership. Earlier lumber and construction involvementIn 1897, Peter Larson, Patrick Welch, John (Jack) William Stewart, and the Foley Brothers formed an earthmoving alliance which performed grading during railroad construction. Peter LarsonIn 1868, Larson arrived in New Orleans from Funen, Denmark, almost penniless.
Prince Rupert, British ColumbiaCity in CanadaCity in British Columbia, CanadaPrince Rupert is a port city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is located on Kaien Island near the Alaskan panhandle. It is the land, air, and water transportation hub of British Columbia's North Coast, and has a population of 12,300 people as of 2021. HistoryCoast Tsimshian (Ts'msyen) occupation of the Prince Rupert Harbour area spans at least 5,000 years.
British Columbia Highway 16Highway 16 is a highway in British Columbia, Canada. It is British Columbia's important section of the Yellowhead Highway, a part of the Trans-Canada Highway that runs across Western Canada, from British Columbia's Graham Island east to Winnipeg, Manitoba, via Edmonton, Alberta, and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The highway closely follows the path of the northern B.C. alignment of the Canadian National Railway (CN).
Terrace, British ColumbiaTerrace is a city in the Skeena region of west central British Columbia, Canada. This regional hub lies east of the confluence of the Kitsumkalum River into the Skeena River. On BC Highway 16, junctions branch northward for the Nisga'a Highway (BC Highway 113) to the west and southward for the Stewart–Cassiar Highway (BC Highway 37) to the east. The locality is by road about 204 km (127 mi) southwest of Smithers and 144 km (89 mi) east of Prince Rupert.Skeena CountryThe Skeena Country is a historic geographic region comprising areas of both the British Columbia Coast and the British Columbia Interior in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. In 1997, the Gitxsan won title rights to their traditional lands in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia.
British ColumbiaProvince of CanadaProvince in CanadaBritish Columbia is the westernmost 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 include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts, and grassy plains.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.