Kitlope Anchorage

Kitlope Anchorage (53˚15'18" 127˚54'39" Head of Gardner Canal, SE of Kitimat), Kitlope River (53˚15'00" 127˚52'00" Flows N into head of Gardner Canal). Kitlope (sometimes spelled Gitlope or Kitlup) is a Tsimshian name meaning “people of the rocks.” The original inhabitants of the Kitlope R watershed called themselves the Henaaksiala; their descendants moved to Haisla (or Kitimat Village) about 1948 and amalgamated with the Kitamaat people to become the Haisla First Nation. The Kitlope...

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