CANYON CITY

CANYON CITY
Is a Nisga’a village in the Nass River Valley, just north of Terrace along 158-kilometer long Highway #113 (Nisga’a Highway). Canyon City is the smallest of the 4 Nisga’a villages that consist of Canyon City (Gitwinksihlkw), New Aiyansh (Gitlakdamix), Gingolx (Kincolith), and Greenville (Laxqalts’ap). It is known by the Nisga’a people as Gitwinksihlkw (pronounced git-win-silk), which in turn is named after “place of the lizards” that were commonplace in this area before the Tseax Cone erupted and buried the villages of Wii Lax K’abit and Lax Ksiluux in the mid-1700s. It is named by its English term for its location around a canyon in the vicinity of the area. Canyon City is unincorporated and only relies on logging and commercial fishing as its main mainstays of its economy. A road was linked to the outside world from here in 1995.

CANYON CITY’S POPULATION: 201