Hagwilget Cultural Village - Feasibility Study Introduction

The research team found that the proposed concept for the Hagwilget Cultural Village has broad grassroots community support and the necessary components in place to enhance its development. With 50,000 tourists crossing the Hagwilget Suspension Bridge each year, the opportunity to situate a centre below this seems to have a captive audience in place before the ground is broken. (download .pdf file here)

Hagwilget Cultural Village - Business Plan Introduction

The Hagwilget Village Council is interested in creating a reconstructed historical Cultural Village comprising of four historical long houses, totem poles, smokehouses and storage sheds at the base of the Hagwilget Village Canyon along the banks of the Bulkley River.  This attraction would recreate the original village of Tse Kya at its original site, and would serve as an interactive learning centre where visitors could gain an appreciation of the Wet’suwet’en life and culture. The site would form the foundation of an excellent business model for revenue generation and sustainability through the attraction of tourist and convention markets to the area. A fully developed convention centre would be created in the next phase of the plan to develop a vehicle to keep people overnight and draw three and five day conventions into the area. (download .pdf file here)