The Village of Hazelton remains much like the original settlement, founded in 1866. Explore the historical buildings.
Hazelton is a village municipality in the Skeena region of west central British Columbia, Canada. The place is on the southeast side of the Skeena River immediately north of the Bulkley River mouth, where the confluence forms a peninsula. On BC Highway 62, the locality is by road about 75 kilometres (47 mi) northwest of Smithers and 144 kilometres (89 mi) northeast of Terrace. Hazelton is the original of the "Three Hazeltons", the other two being New Hazelton to the southeast and South Hazelton to the south.
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The Kispiox totem poles stand in the grass at the edge of the community of Kispiox where the Kispiox and Skeena Rivers meet. There are approximately 24 totem poles that are privately owned by House Groups in the Kispiox Valley. They were carved between 1880 and 1995.