Kitsalas
Feature Type:Railway Point - A named railway siding, junction, flag stop or timing point with or without an agent.
Status: Not official
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Relative Location: On Skeena River, N. of Zymoetz River, Range 5 Coast Land District
Latitude-Longitude: 54°33'59"N, 128°27'05"W at the approximate population centre of this feature.
Datum: WGS84
NTS Map: 103I/9
Origin Notes and History:

"Kitsalas (Town), not Kitselas" adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada. Identified as Kitsalas (Old Indian Village) in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Form & spelling of name changed to Kitselas (Station) 2 March 1939 on 103 I....

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

Kitsalas is an Indian word meaning "People of village at the canyon" (18th Report).

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office