| 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, Kitsalas |
| 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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This is Kitselas (railway point). At one time, the GTP station was named (or proposed to be named), Vanarsdol. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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C.C. Van Arsdoll was the engineer responsible for construction of GTP's route through the Rocky Mountains. His nickname was "Four-tenths Van", earned as a result of his famous ultimatum to surveyors that the grade of the railway route was not to exceed four-tenths of one percent. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |