Spuzzum is a very small town in British Columbia, Canada. Because it is on the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately 50 km (31 mi) north of the community of Hope, it is often referred to as being "beyond Hope". The village was immortalized in the early 1980s by the band "Six Cylinder" in a song with the refrain "If you haven't been to Spuzzum, you ain't been anywhere."
The name Spuzzum may be a local variant of spatsum, a Chinook Jargon word for the reed used in basket-weaving. One source claims that the name is an Indian word meaning "little flat", and that Spuzzum was the boundary between the Stóːlō and the Nlaka'pamux peoples. [1]:162