Spuzzum, British Columbia
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Spuzzum is a very small town in British Columbia, Canada on the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately 50 kilometres north of Hope, thus is often referred to as being "beyond Hope". Immortalized in the early 1980s by the band "Six Cylinder" in a song with the refrain "If you haven't been to Spuzzum, you ain't been anywhere."
The name Spuzzum may be a local variant of spatsum, a Chinook Jargon word for the reed used in basket-weaving.
The town is often used in humorous contexts due to its small size - see for example "The Spuzzum Institute of Technology". Both sides of a one-time sign on the Trans-Canada Highway read "You are now leaving Spuzzum".
Spuzzum is also the name of a First Nation of the Nlaka'pamux Nation.
[edit] Bibliography
Local elder Annie York's books are classics in the field of ethnobotany. They include:
- They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever: Rock Writings in the Stein River Valley of British Columbia (with Chris Arnett and Richard Daly
- Spuzzum: Fraser Canyon Histories, 1808-1939 with Andrea LaForet
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