Kitselas Canyon

Kitselas Canyon


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Kitselas Canyon, also Kitsalas Canyon is a stretch of the Skeena River in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, between the community of Usk and the Tsimshian community of Kitselas. It was a major obstacle to steamboat travel on the Skeena River.

ee also

*Kitselas

References

* [http://www.elp.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=35438 BCGNIS entry "Kitselas Canyon"]


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