CHETWYND
Is a small district municipality on the Hart Highway (Highway #97) in the Pine River Valley in British Columbia’s remote northeast corner, 310 kilometers north of Prince George. Chetwynd is named after former British Columbia minister of railways, Ralph Chetwynd and was formerly known as Little Prairie before that. It was first settled in 1912 and boomed during the 1950s with the arrival of the now-defunct British Columbia rail line (BC Rail). Chetwynd today has several key economies that boost the town including forestry and the oil and gas sector with a major gas plant located right on the nearby Pine River. Chetwynd’s main attractions include its Heritage museum that is housed inside a railway caboose that displays Chetwynd’s history with the railway and even has mining and trapping paraphernalia. Chetwynd calls itself the “Chainsaw Capital of the World and was officially known as a district municipality in 1983, after been a village for 21 years.
CHETWYND’S POPULATION: 2,633
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