Spuzzum is an unincorporated community in the lower Fraser Canyon area of southwestern British Columbia, Canada.

[4] Fraser noted blankets made from the wool of mountain goats and dog's hair[5] and burial boxes set on posts.

[7] The boundary between the Upper Sto:lo (Tait) and the Nlaka'pamux peoples[8] was at Sawmill Creek, about 9 kilometres (6 mi) south.

In retribution, a party of about 40 from Yale travelled north as far as Boston Bar, killed several in battle, and burned their villages to the ground.

[11][12] Historically, summer and winter dwellings, and fishing, hunting, and gathering locations, covered a wide area.

[14] In the 1870s, 149 indigenous people lived south of the Alexandra suspension bridge and about 8 hectares (20 acres) was under cultivation, principally potato crops.

[23] In 1848, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) built Simon's House as a store, where the fur brigades crossed the Fraser.

[27] The location lies in a constricted part of the Fraser Canyon north of the Yale highway tunnel; the area is dominated by granitic or gneissic bedrock.

[27] A rope guided the punt-shaped reaction ferry,[24] which struggled to cope with the heavy and frequent wagon traffic during the goldrush.

[31] In 1862, the government awarded Joseph Trutch & Thomas Spence the southward leg of the new wagon road from the proposed bridge to Pike's Riffle along the west shore, for completion the following spring.

When a stage plunged over a cliff below Spuzzum in March 1881, two horses died and two passengers suffered broken legs.

[11] Although the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) construction during the 1880s severely damaged the Yale–Spuzzum road,[33] this section had become passable by the early 1900s.

[43] In May 2018, Greyhound Canada axed Fraser Canyon stops such as Spuzzum,[44] leaving no bus service in the area.

Although a large, single-storey log structure, a bishop visiting in 1860 described it as a roadside hut, and a detached bakehouse, which could house an overflow of travellers.

Magistrate E.H. Sanders, whose duties included registering claims, pre-empted the adjacent land south to the creek.

Employment opportunities diminished when the Neville Lumber sawmill closed around 1950 and only three Japanese families remained in the village.

[64] In June 1882, the northward advance of the CP rail head from Yale passed through Spuzzum to a temporary terminus at Alexandra Bridge.

[73] While present at the extinguishing of a fire in the tunnel about 7 kilometres (4 mi) north of Spuzzum in 1901, Edmund Juchereau Duchesnay, the CP Assistant General Superintendent of the Pacific Division, was killed by a falling rock.

[75] In May 1913, the eastward advance of the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) rail head reached the shore opposite Spuzzum.

[77] Built in 1884, the standard-design (Bohi's Type 5) single-storey station building with gable roof and dormers (identical to Keefers) was destroyed in 1964 by a landslide.

[101] In 1943, a CP train struck a man walking the track nearby, causing severe head and back injuries.

[107] In 2016, a Canadian National Railways (CN) nine-car grain train derailed on the CP track about 6 kilometres (4 mi) south, sending several cars into the Fraser.