Kitsalas
| Feature Type: | Railway Point - A named railway siding, junction, flag stop or timing point with or without an agent. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Other Names: | KitselasOfficial, Vanarsdol |
| 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 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"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 |
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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 |