This river bridge on BC Highway 16 is by road about 10 kilometres (6 mi) northeast of Terrace.

The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) surveyors considered two routes between present day Telkwa and this vicinity.

[2] In early November 1910, the eastward advance of the GTP rail head from Prince Rupert passed through mile 100 (Vanarsdol),[3] reaching Newtown[4] at mile 102 (western end of the tunnels),[5] where it halted for over a year.

After Foley, Welch and Stewart (FW&S), the GTP prime contractor, handed over control of the line west of Vanarsdol to the GTP (which commenced scheduled service in June 1911),[6] the construction work east of that point was regarded as the ongoing extension.

[7] In mid-January 1912, the FW&S Newtown temporary terminal ceased to exist when tracklaying proceeded through the tunnels.

[8] Vanarsdol station was named after Cassius Cash Van Arsdol, GTP chief engineer.

[9] His directive to the route surveyors, especially for the Canadian Rockies segment, was to ensure the grade did not to exceed four-tenths of one percent.

[11] The planned station locations in the vicinity had been Kitsum, Copper River, and Kitselas.

This location on the northwest side of the Skeena is surrounded by the Kitselas Kshish First Nation Reserve 4.

[9] In 1927, fire destroyed the Hagan sawmill, adjacent buildings, and 180,000 metres (600,000 ft) of lumber.

In 1908, William John Sanders, prospector and Sergeant-at-arms in the BC Legislature, chose the name of Copper City for the new townsite, which would occupy 118 hectares (292 acres) of his 523-hectare (1,292-acre) property immediately south of the Zymoetz River mouth.

[51] In 1909, a Prince Rupert syndicate paid $45,000 for over 40 hectares (100 acres) of the site for immediate marketing.

[12] In 1909, a second general store opened,[55] which Percy Ralph Skinner and his brother ran[12] as a HBC agency.

[61] The one-room school stood in the Dobies area on the northwest side of the Skeena.

[65] About 1971, the Copperside Estates subdivision opened[66] immediately north of the Zymoetz River mouth.

Existing from the 1890s, Stewart's Ferry was different from the Copper River mouth locale, which suggests a positioning distinctly to the southwest.

[72] In 1908, a subsidized[73] two-year ferry charter covering 3.2 kilometres (2 mi) up and downstream was tendered.