Kitwanga (Gitwangak) Skeena River

My arrival to work in the local train station was in the middle of a week-long rain.
When the clouds rose, I was surprised to see the great wall of the Seven Sisters mountains rising just across the Skeena River. They rise as a cliff and dominate the scenery when clouds reveal.
The last two photos were taken in 2007. There is now a new Seven Sisters Provincial Park.

By the time of my quick return visit in 1988 the station was closed and shuttered; but in 1974 the station was the busiest place in town.

This view in 2007 shows the track-side station site just to the left of the photo. I also show the nearby sawmill operation which is considerably smaller. BC used to have many beehive sawdust burners. This is one of the few ones that is still up and operating.

The Gitksan people of this area once had a hill-top wooden fort on a hill near town. This fort was destroyed in the 1830's. The site is now the Gitwangak Battle Hill National Historic Site.
(Though I never heard this place mentioned at all during the time that I lived in Kitwanga).
There are two 1984 Parks Canada books on this village: Gitwangak Village Life and The Totem Poles and Monuments of Gitwangak village.
These 2007 pictures shows the battle fort hill and a view of Kitwanga River from the top.

During my time the new highway bridge was under construction. The alternatives were the Cedarvale river ferry or a long drive on a very muddy road east to New Hazelton.

The first two pictures look west down the Skeena Valley toward Cedarvale. The third looks east towards Hudson Bay Mountain and Smithers.