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Hagensborg, BC at a Glance
Located on Highway 20 in the Great
Bear Rainforest, Hagensborg was permanently settled in 1894 by Norwegian
settlers from Minnesota who reckoned the landscape to be remarkably similar
to that of their homeland. Preserved since then, the Norwegian
Heritage House was built by one of Hagensborg's very first residents, Andrew
Svisdahl, and is a time capsule of the past, furnished in traditional fashion
and displaying the household tools of a century ago. The Bella Coola River flows
through the town, cutting fjords and valleycreated from the melting caps of
the surrounding Coast Mountains slopes of their fjords and valleys. The river's
shores were once dotted with First Nations villages, and several pictographs
of unknown age carefully carved by the various early residents of the Great
Bear Rainforest mark the rocks alongside Thorsen Creek, 8 km west of Hagensborg
(5 mi). Highway 20 follows what was an established trade route between interior
and coastal groups, traced by the Alexander
MacKenzie Heritage Trail, the first European to travel the route in its
entirety.
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WELCOME TO Hagensborg, BC!
