Description of Historic Place

The Dze L K'ant Friendship Centre is a three storey modern style building located in the heart of downtown Smithers, British Columbia at 1188 Main Street. The historic place includes the building.

Heritage Value

The Dze L Kant Friendship Centre has historic and cultural value because of past uses as a federal government building, including the community's second post office (1954-1998), federal government services, and R.C.M.P station and jail. Since 2003 it has been a major cultural and social community centre on Main Street as the offices of the Dze L K'ant Friendship Centre. The Friendship Centre is an anchoring organization for Indigenous community members.

Character-Defining Elements

The elements that define the character of the Dze L K'ant Friendship Centre include the:

- three storey flat roofed asymmetrical building with elements of modern architectural design
- brick facade corner (Main and Second Avenue)
- symmetrical line of windows on the second and third storeys on Second Avenue side
- large front "verandah" feature on Main Street
- front facing wall of panel windows on main (second) storey facing Main Street
- overhanging roofline on non-brick Main Street section