Descripción: Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada.
«In 1879, the Village of Hazelton became the interior post for the Hudson's Bay Company and the trading centre for the Upper Skeena Valley and Bulkley Valley. Unlike their other posts on the coast which could be easily accessed by sailing ships, transporting supplies to the post at Hazelton proved very difficult. As no roads or railway existed yet in the valley, the only route to the village was the Skeena River herself.»