Hartley Bay

Hartley Bay (53˚25'00" 129˚15'00" W side of Douglas Channel near S end, SW of Kitimat). The origin of the name of this Gitga’at (Kitka’ata) First Nation community is uncertain. The Gitga’at people are part of the Tsimshian cultural group and originally lived at Laxgal’tsap (Old Town) on Kitkiata Inlet, just to the N. They moved to William Duncan’s “model Christian village” of Metlakatla in the 1860s and ’70s, but when Duncan and many of his followers left for Alaska in 1887, a...

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