Spuzzum


SPUZZUM  () , pop 50 (2001), is a tiny hamlet in the Fraser Canyon 18 km north of YALE (see FRASER R). It was the most southerly village of the NLAKA'PAMUX (Thompson) First Nations and was considered the boundary between their territory and that of the STO:LO of the FRASER VALLEY. Simon FRASER passed a night at the village on his way down the river in 1808. The CPR opened a station in 1885 and during the 1930s the BC PROVINCIAL POLICE had an...

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