These neighbouring settlements of New and Old Hazelton are the
last towns’ on the road reaching northward. To the west the road is
being extended and eventually will reach Prince Rupert—but it is
the Northern Road in the Land of the Golden Twilight that some
day may be cut through to the Land of the Midnight Sun that ts
claiming attention. Here in the Hazeltons accommodation can be
found for the tourist.

Here are found the grotesque but artistically carved totem-poles
of the ancient Indians—the Eastern limit of the art of the Coast
aborigines. The road to Kispiox leads northward up a valley from
this Gateway to the Silent Places, passing an Indian village with fine
totems en route. Here at the Hazeltons the summer sun shines on
June 21st for 19 hours and 22 minutes, followed by the long twilight
that allows but a short period of darkness before the glorious dawn
streaks the morning sky with colours stolen from the rainbow.

It is a wondrous drive from the populous centres of civilization in
the South where men work and live in structures of stone and steel,
amid the clang and clatter of industry, to this Gateway to the Silent
Places in the Land of the Golden Twilight. The wild and awesome
artistry of Nature, the wide sweep of open country, the music of
turbulent rivers, the placid calm of opalescent lakes, and the wine-like
air scented with the health-giving odours of the forests—all combine
to make the trip through British Columbia to the fringe of the
Great Unknown one that.is without parallel on the North American
Continent.

From Vancouver, British Columbia’s chief commercial city, beau-
tifully situated on Burrard Inlet—a world-famous port—the road
leads through the smiling acres of the Lower Fraser Valley to join

Pastoral scenes delight the eye.

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