Riding the Skeena train

FALL COLOURS galore.

That's what lay ahead of
us on our train trip to
Smithers Sunday Oct. 11.

I decided to take my
granddaughter = Nastassia
Ljungh and her friend Susan
Lupick (both from Kitimat)
aboard a Via Train to see
the lovely fall colours.

Also along for the ride
was Helen Haselmeyer and
her granddaughter Melissa
Rioux.

The trip to Smithers at this
time of the year is gorgeous,
Everywhere you look, you
see beauty.

We left the new Terrace
slation, built in 1984, at
10:18 a.m., settled ourselves
in our seats and opened our
eyes.

And this is what we saw:

KITSELAS TUNNELS:
The Skeena River tumbles
around jagged rocks on the
south side of the rail line
and skirts canyons through
four close tunnels.

All the tunnels had to be
blasted out before track
could be laid, Five men died
in a blasting accident

OLD KITSELAS: Home
of the Durham family.
About 1,500 people iived
here from 1908-1912,
Petroglyphs and ringbolts
from Sternwheelers remain
across from the ancient Kit-
selas Village.

DORREEN (flagstop at
mile 101): Some people still
live here, I was told Dorreen
got its name from a sur-
veyor — he named it after
his sister in England.

The old Dorreen store is

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stil] there. It was owned by
William Horwill and dates
back to 1920. Horwill died
July 22, 1958 and was
buried in Old Kitsumkalum
Cemetery.

RITCHIE (whistle stop):
There is a beautiful native
smoke house here. The
Kitwanga fishing grounds
are still being used.

CEDARVALE: Méeans-
kinisht across the river.
Everyone looks for Edith
Essex at the old general
store and post office. Edith
served the community of
Meanskinisht for 72 years,
which is a record for any
Canada Post employee. Sad-
ly, she is gone now.

As you travel along, you
can also see the Seventh
Day Adventist Settlement
and Fairhaven Bakery. Also
to see is Kitwanga, the
totem poles and the Hud-
son’s Bay Post.

SKEENA CROSSING
BRIDGE: Completed July
6, 1912. The Skeena train
crosses the Skeena River

Canadian Community Newspapers Association

CNA

newspapers
deliver the story

here. The village of Kit-
seguecla lics across the river
to the West.

SEELEY GULCH
BRIDGE; When the bridge
was first assembled it was
five feet too short,

CARNABY CROSSING:
The most dangerous cross-
ing in B.C. We known Carl
Pohle brought his new bride
Adella Pohfe here after they
were married in 1921. She
came to a cabin with only a
woodstove and two chairs
and she made a home of
this, Carl Pohie’s first mill
is at Carnaby, Later he came
to Terrace to start Pohle
Lumber Mill.

“NEW HAZELTON”:
This is one of several com-
munities clustered near
where the Bulkley River and
the Skeena River Vallies
curve around large
mountains. We see beautiful
Rocher Deboule. Hazelton
was given its name because
hazelnuts grow here.

BULKLEY CANYON:
Three tunnels here take the
train past the canyon.

MORICETOWN:
Moricetown was a vital fish-
ing sile for at least 5,000
years, It was named alter
Father Morice,

SMITHERS: Finally we
arrive at our destination —
Smithers, which was
founded by the railway in
1913. The railway station
was built in 1918, Smithers

was named after Sir Alfred
Smithers, chairman of the
Grand Trunk Railway.

We arrived in Smithers at
1:58. And at 3:10 we
hopped on a Greyhound bus
back to Terrace.

The train’s dome car is
now available for everyone
wanting to do the tip. It
provides a much better
view.

For more information call
Via Rail at 1-800-561-8630.

The Grand Trunk Railway
was the dream of Charles
Melville Hayes, the father
of Prince Rupert,

On Mr. Hays death (he -

died on the Titanic in 1912),
Mr. EJ. Chamberlain was:
made president and Sir
Alfred Smithers continued
as chairman of the Board,

The 184 miles of track be-
tween Prince ‘Rupert and
Hazelton took nearly six
years to complete. The first
train roamed the area April
9, 1914.

With the coming of the
railroad, Terrace townsite
was surveyed,

Our founder, George
Little, donated land to the
Grand Trunk Railway,
resulting in the station here.

Some years later the first
station was sold to Big Jim
Douglas.

Nearly one year before his
death, George Little rode
the first C.N.R. train to
make the Terrace/Kitimat
run Jan 14, 1955,

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