South Hazelton#Sealey/Ellison
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| subdivision_name2 = Skeena
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| subdivision_name3 = Kitimat–Stikine
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South Hazelton is an unincorporated community in the Skeena region of west central British Columbia, Canada. The place is on the east side of the Skeena River immediately south of the Bulkley River mouth.{{BCGNIS|20681|South Hazelton (community)}} On BC Highway 16, the locality is by road about {{convert|73|km|mi}} northwest of Smithers and {{convert|132|km|mi|0}} northeast of Terrace. South Hazelton is one of the "Three Hazeltons", the other two being the original "Old" Hazelton to the north and New Hazelton to the east.
New Hazelton chosen initially
By 1910, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) construction had triggered prospecting and significant copper and silver ore discoveries in the general area.{{sfn|Frank|1990|pp=7–8 (27–28)}} The transportation of ore would be very profitable for the GTP for several years from 1913 onward.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=9 (29)}} However, immediate revenue would come from land sales. Where a landowner was unwilling to sell the land around a potential station site to the railway, the standard arrangement was for the railway to receive half the landowner profits from a subsequent subdivision.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=10 (30)}} Lot 882 (future New Hazelton) was the most suitable site for a potential station from an engineering and operating perspective. When Robert Kelly, the owner, would not consider profit sharing, the GTP looked westward for an alternative station site.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=11 (31)}}
Sealey/Ellison
A construction headquarters for Foley, Welch and Stewart (FW&S), the GTP prime contractor, Sealey was about {{convert|3|mi|km|0|order=flip}} downriver from Hazelton and was the location of the new townsite of Ellison.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/princero/1.0227508#p7z-3r0f:%22Ellison%22and%22Sealey%22 |pp=8, 10 |title=Prince Rupert Optimist |date=14 Sep 1910 |website=library.ubc.ca}} Sealey (or Sealy, Seeley, Seely) was named after John Arthur Clark King Sealey (who presented similar surname variations).{{Cite web | url=https://www.gent.name/bc:towns:sealy:start |title=Sealey |website=www.gent.name}} At the time, he was the proprietor of the Omineca Hotel in Hazelton.{{Cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/pgc:1963-01-15-09 |p=9 |title=Prince George Citizen |date=15 Jan 1963 |website=pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca}} The Sealey post office existed 1911–1912.{{cite web |url=https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=posoffposmas&IdNumber=12119 |title=Postmasters (Sealey) |website=www.bac-lac.gc.ca}}
Believed to be named after Price Ellison, the new townsite, which lay west of the railway right-of-way, spread approximately between the alignments of present West Ave and Richmond Rd. The train station was to be placed at the northern end. After selling townsite lots, the GTP found that the cost of levelling the grade at the Ellison station would have been uneconomical. Consequently, the station location changed to Lot 851 (South Hazelton). Buyers of Ellison lots could swap them for South Hazelton ones.{{Cite web | url=https://www.gent.name/bc:towns:ellison:start |title=Ellison |website=www.gent.name}}
In late August 1912, the GTP extended passenger and freight train runs onto the Skeena Crossing–Sealey segment.{{Cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/fgh:1912-08-31-01 |p=1 |title=Fort George Herald |date=31 Aug 1912 |website=pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca}} By November, all FW&S employees and supplies had moved to New Hazelton.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/omineca/1.0083031#p3z-4r0f:%22Sealey%22 |p=4 |title=Omineca Herald |date=8 Nov 1912 |website=library.ubc.ca}}
Sealey Gulch trestle bridge
This railway trestle bridge stands between the alignments of present Willan Ave and West Ave.
In late July 1912, the concrete piers were completed. In early August 1912, the eastward advance of the GTP rail head from Prince Rupert reached the gulch,{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/omineca/1.0211725#p0z-3r0f:%22gulch%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Herald |date=2 Aug 1912 |website=library.ubc.ca}} enabling the superstructure steel to be delivered by rail.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/omineca/1.0083201#p0z-4r0f:%22Sealey%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Herald |date=9 Aug 1912 |website=library.ubc.ca}} In late August, erection of the steel commenced.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/omineca/1.0083110#p0z-4r0f:%22gulch%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Herald |date=23 Aug 1912 |website=library.ubc.ca}} However, the prefabricated steel was found to be {{convert|5|ft|m|order=flip}} too short, requiring modifications.{{Cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/pgc:1964-04-20-12 |p=12 |title=Prince George Citizen |date=20 Apr 1964 |website=pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca}} In late September, the bridge superstructure was completed.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0211823#p0z-4r0f:%22steel%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Miner |date=5 Oct 1912 |website=library.ubc.ca}}
In 1914, a murder occurred at the location.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/prj/1.0312031#p0z-3r0f:%22Sealey%22 |p=1 |title=Prince Rupert Journal |date=9 Dec 1914 |website=library.ubc.ca}} During World War I, watchmen guarded the structure.{{Cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/pgp:1915-04-10-01 |p=1 |title=Prince George Post |date=10 Apr 1915 |website=pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca}}
By 1929, shifting in the bridge foundations resulted in load limits, which meant halting locomotives at each end and pushing the respective cars across.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22bridge+over+Sealy%22&ymd=1929-06-05&t=11779 |p=1 |title=Interior News |date=5 Jun 1929 |quote=Railway officials are confronted with a very serious problem at the big steel bridge over Sealy Gulch, near South Hazelton, and this has reached a point where locomotives no longer cross the structure. Instead, engines are kept at both ends of the bridge and cars are shoved across. The railway engineers have had trouble at this point for many years the trouble being due to the high banks gradually closing in on the gulch. The bridge is constructed on a curve and at the time of its erection compensating methods were installed to meet the trouble fully expected. It is reported that this creeping of the banks has necessitated cutting several inches of the bridge during recent years. The present trouble is at the foundation for the westerly end, which has recently shifted to an extent endangering traffic unless carefully handled. The opinion is expressed that the severe shifting was aided by the earthquake of ten days ago. | website=www.newspapers.com}}
South Hazelton/New Hazelton conflict
Additional distance and a difficult uphill wagon road made South Hazelton unsuitable for shipping ore.{{sfn|Frank|1990|pp=12, 20 (32, 40)}} William John Sanders was the owner of Lot 851 (South Hazelton), which encompassed the station. Adjacent to the northwest is present Anderson Flats Provincial Park, a mission site formerly owned by the Methodist Church.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/prj/1.0311837#p0z-3r0f:%22Methodist%22 |p=1 |title=Prince Rupert Journal |date=18 May 1912 |website=library.ubc.ca}} The first newspaper reference to the name South Hazelton was October 1911.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0082940#p0z-4r0f:%22south%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Miner |date=21 Oct 1911 |website=library.ubc.ca}}
Sanders had not only agreed to the profit-sharing arrangement but had also donated the lots for the Ellison relocators.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=13 (33)}} The existing merchants in Hazelton received free lots. Auctioned in December 1911, only 82 lots had sold by January 1912.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=14 (34)}} In December 1911, the Railway Commission ordered that a station be built on Lot 882 and none be built on Lot 851, which immediately prompted a buying spree of lots at New Hazelton.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=16 (36)}}
In February 1912, the GTP appealed to the federal cabinet.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=17 (37)}} That May, the cabinet referred the matter back to the Commission,{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=18 (38)}} which the following month reluctantly directed that a station could be built on Lot 851 but the one for Lot 882 must go ahead equally.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=21 (41)}} The BC government demanded that the South Hazelton lot buyers be allowed to cancel their purchases. By May 1913, 58 of the 78 owners of the lots sold at auction exercised this option.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=22 (42)}}
The rail head reached South Hazelton at the beginning of October 1912 and New Hazelton two weeks later.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/nelsondaily/1.0385011#p5z-2r0f:%22boom%22 |p=.6 |title=Daily News (Nelson) |date=19 Oct 1912 |website=library.ubc.ca}} That month, the Commission approved the specific location of the South Hazelton station.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=23 (43)}} That November, scheduled Prince Rupert–South Hazelton service commenced, where a temporary depot was erected,{{Cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/fgh:1913-02-01-04 |p=4 |title=Fort George Herald |date=1 Feb 1913 |website=pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca}} followed by the standard-design Plan 100‐152 (Bohi's Type E) station building. The GTP dragged its feet in extending service to New Hazelton{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=25 (45)}} but was implemented in January 1913.{{Cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/fgh:1913-01-25-01 |p=1 |title=Fort George Herald |date=25 Jan 1913 |website=pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca}}
The GTP set an exorbitant rate for transporting ore from New Hazelton. Under threat that ore would be shipped to Prince Rupert by steamboat, the rate was significantly reduced in June 1913.{{sfn|Frank|1990|pp=26–27 (46–47)}} That July, Sanders accepted an offer of a three-sevenths interest in New Hazelton, the settlement of his $9,800 debt on Lot 851, and the transfer of the disgruntled lot buyers to the New Hazelton site.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=24 (44)}}
In late 1915, the GTP used questionable statistics to seek approval for withdrawing the company agent from New Hazelton (to effectively close the station) but was unsuccessful.{{sfn|Frank|1990|pp=29, 32–33 (49, 52–53})}}
Rocher Déboulé Mountain
Rocher de Boule was the largest mine in the district.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=34 (54)}} The GTP constructed a siding at Tramville, the lower terminal of the mine tramway, which was about {{convert|7|km|mi|1}} southwest of South Hazelton. The GTP refusal to establish a station there caused delay and expense for both parties. In summer 1916, the mine complained that poor GTP service had filled up storage space in the ore bunker at Prince Rupert, the ore dump at Tramville, and at the mine head, causing the company to reduce production for the remainder of the year. The development of other claims on the mountain prompted the province to build an {{convert|11|mi|km|adj=on|order=flip}} winding road to Skeena Crossing. Although way freights stopped at that location, the GTP refused to construct a siding and station.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=35 (55)}} In response to complaints, the Railway Commission ordered the GTP to install a siding and small station within 30 days.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=36 (56)}}
General railway operations
In 1918, a conductor was fatally crushed when trapped by a closing gravel car.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0082891#p0z-3r0f:%22shocking%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Miner |date=12 Jan 1918 |website=library.ubc.ca}}
In 1952, a man sustained fatal injuries when train wheels cut off both his legs.{{Cite web | url=https://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/01f596eb-1b77-4e70-8d6c-4f7625dfb84f |title=Death Certificate (Vincent McINTYRE) |website=www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca}}
In 1966, a passenger train struck a vehicle at the Carnaby railway crossing killing an occupant.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22Carolina%22&ymd=1966-03-23&t=11779 |p=1 |title=Interior News |date=23 Mar 1966 |quote=Roland M. Robertson…died of a fractured skull when the car in which he was riding collided with the C.N.R. dayliner at a crossing eight miles south of Hazelton. | website=www.newspapers.com}}
In 2018, 27 cars of a westbound coal train derailed.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22waiting+on+water+sample%22&ymd=2018-01-31&t=11779 |p=A9 |title=Interior News |date=31 Jan 2018 |quote=The train derailment involved 27 cars. The westbound coal train left the tracks…near the Highway 16 overpass on the way to South Hazelton… | website=www.newspapers.com}}
Ferries
A Sealey–Hazelton ferry service began in 1911. That year, the A. Ross ferry drifted downstream after vandals cut the mooring ropes.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/omineca/1.0211745#p0z-4r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Herald |date=8 Jul 1911 |website=library.ubc.ca}} In 1912, when a guy cable snapped, the new ferry drifted several hundred feet downstream, prompting those on board to swim to safety.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/omineca/1.0211690#p0z-4r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Herald |date=24 May 1912 |website=library.ubc.ca}} The next year, the Ross ferry did not recommence, having been superseded by the railway.{{Cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/fgh:1913-02-01-04 |p=4 |title=Fort George Herald |date=1 Feb 1913 |website=pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca}}
In 1910, Richard S. Sargent was awarded the charter for a ferry across the Bulkley River mouth{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/omineca/1.0082699#p0z-4r0f:%22Sargent%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Herald |date=19 Feb 1910 |website=library.ubc.ca}} but failed to begin a service.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/omineca/1.0083206#p1z-4r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=2 |title=Omineca Herald |date=13 Aug 1910 |website=library.ubc.ca}} In the absence of ferries, canoe operators enjoyed a lucrative trade.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/omineca/1.0211743#p0z-4r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Herald |date=3 Jun 1911 |website=library.ubc.ca}} Sargent had delayed any action because a bridge plan appeared imminent.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0082940#p6z-4r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=7 |title=Omineca Miner |date=21 Oct 1911 |website=library.ubc.ca}} In April 1912, he expressed a willingness to transfer the charter.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0082945#p0z-4r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Miner |date=13 Apr 1912 |website=library.ubc.ca}} Hazelton businessmen{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0211824#p11z-4r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=12 |title=Omineca Miner |date=27 Apr 1912 |website=library.ubc.ca}} launched a large scow that May,{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0083694#p9z-4r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=10 |title=Omineca Miner |date=18 May 1912 |website=library.ubc.ca}} and the South Hazelton cable ferry became fully operational in June.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0083404#p11z-4r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=12 |title=Omineca Miner |date=29 Jun 1912 |website=library.ubc.ca}}
In 1913, the Bulkley ferry charter was tendered{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0082876#p6z-3r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=7 |title=Omineca Miner |date=8 Feb 1913 |website=library.ubc.ca}} but instead was taken over by the province,{{Cite report | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/bcsessional/1.0059778#p33z-3r0f:%22Bulkley%22 |p=Q34 |title=Minister of Public Works annual report, 1913–14 |website=library.ubc.ca}} which installed a new pontoon ferry.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0083516#p3z-3r0f:%22railroad%22 |p=4 |title=Omineca Miner |date=16 Aug 1913 |website=library.ubc.ca}}
{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0083309#p0z-4r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Miner |date=30 Aug 1913 |website=library.ubc.ca}} An ice bridge was created that winter.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0083683#p0z-4r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Miner |date=29 Nov 1913 |website=library.ubc.ca}} In 1914, the South Hazelton ferry hours were extended to nighttime.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0227416#p0z-4r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Miner |date=2 May 1914 |website=library.ubc.ca}}
In January 1917, a bridge over the Bulkley opened, which replaced the ferry.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/prj/1.0312223#p0z-3r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=1 |title=Prince Rupert Journal |date=25 Jan 1917 |website=library.ubc.ca}} That November, the former ferry broke loose during a relocation and beached at Gitsegukla, where it was abandoned.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0083254#p0z-3r0f:%22ferry%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Miner |date=24 Nov 1917 |website=library.ubc.ca}}
Community
In 1913, Sealey's hotel was built.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0082932#p0z-4r0f:%22Sealy%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Miner |date=24 May 1913 |website=library.ubc.ca}} At this time, general development significantly lagged behind New Hazelton.{{Cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/fgt:1913-08-02-02 |p=2 |title=Fort George Tribune |date=2 Aug 1913 |website=pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca}} Some stores were planning to relocate from Hazelton to South Hazelton,{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0211773#p0z-3r0f:%22store%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Miner |date=19 Apr 1913 |website=library.ubc.ca}} but this evidently did not happen, because South Hazelton was described as one or two large empty buildings in late 1914.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/bcfed/1.0345020#p3z-3r0f:%22empty%22 |p=4 |title=BC Federationist |date=20 Nov 1914 |website=library.ubc.ca}} In 1918, the South Hazelton Hotel opened.{{Cite web | url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ominecaminer/1.0082866#p0z-4r0f:%22hotel%22 |p=1 |title=Omineca Miner |date=17 Aug 1918 |website=library.ubc.ca}} First mentioned in 1925 and described as either the Grandview{{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/title/1925/Wrigley_Henderson_Amalgamated_British_Columbia_Directory.html |title=1925 BC Directory |website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}} or South Hazelton hotel,{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22South+Hazelton+Hotel%22&ymd=1925-08-19&t=11779 |p=8 |title=Interior News |date=19 Aug 1925 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} it is unclear if this lone hotel is the same as the 1918 one. The post office existed 1923–1924, before reopening in 1936.{{cite web |url=https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=posoffposmas&IdNumber=28932 |title=Postmasters (South Hazelton) |website=www.bac-lac.gc.ca}} At that time, the Sargent family general store likely opened.{{Cite web | url=https://bccd.vpl.ca/title/1937/British_Columbia_and_Yukon_Directory.html |title=1937 BC Directory |website=www.bccd.vpl.ca}}
In 1931, the school was founded.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22charge+of+the+new%22&ymd=1931-01-14&t=11779 |p=8 |title=Interior News |date=14 Jan 1931 |quote=John Zarelli of Victoria has arrived to take charge of the new school at South Hazelton. | website=www.newspapers.com}}
In 1958, Western Coach Lines inaugurated a Prince Rupert–Prince George bus service,{{Cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/pgc:1958-06-12-01 |p=1 |title=Prince George Citizen |date=12 Jun 1958 |website=pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca}} which included a scheduled stop at South Hazelton.{{Cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/pgc:1958-06-13-12 |p=12 |title=Prince George Citizen |date=13 Jun 1958 |website=pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca}} The prior year, volunteers poured the Anglican Church foundation.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22completed+pouring%22&ymd=1957-10-29&t=12636 |p=5 |title=Northern Sentinel |date=29 Oct 1957 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} Initially called St. Crispin's, the church was later renamed St. John the Baptist.{{Cite web | url=https://www.memorybc.ca/st-john-baptist-church-south-hazelton-b-c-sous-fonds |title=Subfonds - St. John the Baptist Church (South Hazelton, B.C.) sous-fonds |website=www.memorybc.ca}} Around the mid-1970s, the congregation became inactive.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22South+Hazelton%22and%227%22&ymd=1973-11-21&t=11779 |p=22 |title=Interior News |date=21 Nov 1973 |quote=Holy Communion: 7:30 p.m. St. John Baptist Church South Hazelton. | website=www.newspapers.com}}
{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22John+the+Baptist%22&ymd=1974-01-23&t=11779 |p=6 |title=Interior News |date=23 Jan 1974 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}}
{{Historical populations
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South Hazelton
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|1966|467
|1971|483
|1976|
|1981|
|1986|
|1991|654
|1996|
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|2006|213
|2011|211
|2016|199
|2021|193
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| source = Statistics Canada
{{Cite web | url=https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/statcan/CS92-771-1971.pdf |p=98 (96) |title=1971 Census |website=publications.gc.ca}}{{Cite web | url=https://ia600205.us.archive.org/19/items/1991933061993engfra/1991933061993engfra.pdf |p=191 (183) |title=1991 Census |website=publications.gc.ca}}{{Cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=DPL&Code1=590231&Geo2=PR&Code2=01&Data=Count&SearchText=south%20hazelton&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=&TABID=1 |title=2011 Census |website=www12.statcan.gc.ca}}{{Cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=DPL&Code1=590231&Geo2=PR&Code2=59&SearchText=south%20hazelton&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&TABID=1&type=0 | title=2016 Census |website=www12.statcan.gc.ca}}{{Cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=south%20hazelton&DGUIDlist=2021A0006590231&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1,4&HEADERlist=0 | title=2021 Census |website=www12.statcan.gc.ca}}
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Peaks Drive-In screened movies from the early 1960s{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22Peaks%22&ymd=1962-05-23&t=11779 |p=3 |title=Interior News |date=23 May 1962 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} to at least the mid-1980s.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22explosion%22&ymd=1983-06-22&t=11779 |p=24 |title=Interior News |date=22 Jun 1983 |quote=…South Hazelton…van had attended the drive-in earlier, and on leaving…explosion in the engine compartment… | website=www.newspapers.com}}
In 1965, the volunteer fire department bought a used pumper truck.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22purchasers+south%22&ymd=1965-12-23&t=5965 |p=C3 |title=Quesnel Cariboo Observer |date=23 Dec 1965 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} Later that decade, the Cataline Motel opened.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22Cataline+Motel%22&ymd=1969-08-27&t=11779 |p=1 |title=Interior News |date=27 Aug 1969 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} In 1975, four units were added to the motel{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22units+being%22&ymd=1975-02-05&t=11779 |p=6 |title=Interior News |date=5 Feb 1975 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} bringing the total to 19 units.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22Hazelton+motel%22&ymd=1979-02-14&t=11779 |p=21 |title=Interior News |date=14 Feb 1979 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} Repurposing had reduced the number to 17 units plus 22 RV sites by the early 1990s.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22Cataline+Motel+Hazelton%22&ymd=1993-03-17&t=5978 |p=19 |title=Terrace Standard |date=17 Mar 1993 | website=www.newspapers.com}} The motel closed in 2023 with a possibility of reopening the next year.{{Cite web | url=https://www.catalinemotelcamping.com |title=Cataline Motel & Camping | website=www.catalinemotelcamping.com}}
When the highway bypass was built in 1971, businesses on the former thoroughfare lost through traffic.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22Seeley+Lake+Gulf%22&ymd=1971-09-22&t=11779 |p=1 |title=Interior News |date=22 Sep 1971 |quote=But with the construction of the by pass has come a controversy which reached a high point last Thursday when W.E. Ried, owner and operator of Seeley Lake Gulf Service station located on the old Highway 16 in South Hazelton set up a token blockade... | website=www.newspapers.com}} In 1975, a two-bay firehall was erected.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22project+to+build+a+two%22&ymd=1975-10-22&t=11779 |p=19 |title=Interior News |date=22 Oct 1975 |quote=A project to build a two-bay fire hall in South Hazelton was funded… | website=www.newspapers.com}}
The post office operated at least into the later 1980s.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22Jan+16+Police%22&ymd=1986-01-22&t=11779 |p=30 |title=Interior News |date=22 Jan 1986 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}}
Fire destroyed the Grandview Hotel in 1992{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22South+Hazelton+landmark%22&ymd=1992-11-25&t=11779 |p=1 |title=Interior News |date=25 Nov 1992 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} and the school the following year.{{Cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/pgc:1993-08-27-03 |p=3 |title=Prince George Citizen |date=27 Aug 1993 |website=pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca}} After more than two years in portables, the new school building opened.{{Cite web | url=https://core.ac.uk/download/141716237.pdf#page=17 |p=17 (B5) |title=Terrace Standard |date=11 Dec 1996 | website=core.ac.uk}}
A general store existed into the 1990s{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22Southside+store%22&ymd=1995-02-08&t=11779 |p=5 |title=Interior News |date=8 Feb 1995 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} but was vacant by the early 2000s.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22formerly+Southside%22&ymd=2008-07-09&t=11779 |p=C1 |title=Interior News |date=9 Jul 2008 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} The Garage Pub and Grill, which opened in 1997,{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22Garage+Pub+and+Grill%22&ymd=1997-10-22&t=11779 |p=8 |title=Interior News |date=22 Oct 1997 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} had previously been a service station for decades. The restaurant closed in 2003 and the building was demolished in 2012.{{Cite web | url=https://issuu.com/blackpress/docs/i20120307095518163/18 |p=B3 |title=Interior News |date=7 Mar 2012 | website=issuu.com}}
In 2010, the South Hazelton Elementary School closed.{{Cite web | url=https://thetyee.ca/News/2011/03/03/WhereStruggleIsHardest |title=Tyee |date=3 Mar 2011 |website=thetyee.ca}}
The current passenger transit provider is BC Transit.{{Cite web | url=https://www.bctransit.com/hazeltons/schedules-and-maps/route-overview?route=31 |title=Route 31: Gitsegukla |website=www.bctransit.com}}
{{Cite web | url=https://www.bctransit.com/hazeltons/schedules-and-maps/route-overview?route=32 |title=Route 32: West Connector |website=www.bctransit.com}}
{{Cite web | url=https://www.bctransit.com/hazeltons/schedules-and-maps/route-overview?route=163 |title=Route 163: Hazeltons/Smithers |website=www.bctransit.com}}
{{Cite web | url=https://www.bctransit.com/hazeltons/schedules-and-maps/route-overview?route=164 |title=Route 164: Hazeltons/Terrace |website=www.bctransit.com}}
Notable people
Forestry
After World War II, a range of sawmills operated for various periods in South Hazelton.{{Cite web | url=https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/statcan/CS35-503-1961-eng.pdf |pp=76, 77, 86, 89 (72, 73, 82, 85 ) |title=List of Sawmills Prairie Provinces, BC, Yukon and Northwest Territories 1959 |website=publications.gc.ca}}
A 1972 fire totally destroyed the Rim Forest Products sawmill.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22throwing+75+men%22&ymd=1972-02-25&t=11420 |p=6 |title=Vancouver Sun |date=25 Feb 1972 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} The rebuilt mill closed in July 1974{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22Jul+11%22&ymd=1974-10-23&t=11779 |p=2 |title=Interior News |date=23 Oct 1974 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} but was reopened by the receiver in December.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22the+management%22&ymd=1974-11-27&t=11779 |p=1 |title=Interior News |date=27 Nov 1974 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}}
In 1981, CanCel bought the Rim Forest Products mill.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22local+mill+Rim%22&ymd=1981-03-25&t=11779 |p=28 |title=Interior News |date=25 Mar 1981 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} On the opening of the new mill at Carnaby in 1987, the union for the existing South Hazelton mill demanded its members have hiring priority.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22CPU+which+acts%22&ymd=1987-04-08&t=11420 |p=2 |title=Vancouver Sun |date=8 Apr 1987 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}}
In June 1988, the South Hazelton mill closed.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22wait+several+months%22&ymd=1988-06-29&t=11779 |p=21 |title=Interior News |date=29 Jun 1988 |quote= | website=www.newspapers.com}} In May 1989, Stege Logging bought the mill site.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22sold+to+Stege%22&ymd=1989-06-07&t=5978 |p=12 |title=Terrace Standard |date=7 Jun 1989 | website=www.newspapers.com}}
In late 1991, Stege began production at the rebuilt sawmill.{{Cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/search/#lnd=1&query=%22built+on+a+South+Hazelton%22&ymd=1991-08-15&t=11702 |p=47 |title=Province |date=15 Aug 1991 |quote=A new sawmill being built on a South Hazelton site should be ready to go into production in October. Chuck Henderson, Stege Forestry Manager… | website=www.newspapers.com}} In 1995, fire razed much of the Isolite Stege Forest Products mill.{{Cite web | url=https://core.ac.uk/download/141716510.pdf#page=2 |p=A2 |title=Terrace Standard |date=7 Jun 1995 | website=core.ac.uk}}
Maps
- Lot map. 1911.
- Mining map. 1910s.{{sfn|Frank|1990|p=5 (25)}}
- {{Cite web | url=https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~325740~90094661:1937-road-map-of-British-Columbia |title=Standard Oil BC map |year=1937 |website=www.davidrumsey.com}}
- {{Cite web | url=https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/workspace/handleMediaPlayer;JSESSIONID=83caf6bd-5c13-4a2d-8744-65fde1e6d603?lunaMediaId=RUMSEY~8~1~212315~5500350 |title=Shell BC map |year=1956 |website=www.davidrumsey.com}}
See also
Footnotes
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References
- {{cite journal | url=https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/1371/1413 |last=Frank |first=Leonard |title=BC Quarterly: "To Injure Its Own Interests": The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company and the Blighting of Hazelton District, 1910-1918 |year=1990 |volume=88 |website=library.ubc.ca}}
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