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Rivers Inlet was a major fishing area with huge salmon runs. At one time it had the second largest sockeye salmon run only to the Fraser River. A total of 19 Canneries were built in the area starting late in the 1890's. Three canneries remained as they dotted the shorelines until their closure by consolidation through the monopoly of companies ...
684 m (2,244 ft) Lakes of British Columbia. Takla Lake is the fifth largest natural lake in British Columbia, Canada. It is a deep fjord -like lake with the Swannell Ranges to the east, the Driftwood River flowing into it from the north, and the Middle River draining it. It is the terminus of the early Stuart-Takla sockeye salmon run, [1] and ...
Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Pygmy whitefish (Prosopium coulterii) Round whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceum) Mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) Brown trout (Salmo trutta) Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)
Shoal Bay. Shushartie. Sommerville Cannery in Prince Rupert. St. Vincent Bay. Tallheo. Toba Inlet. Vancouver Bay. Waglisla. Wales Island Cannery (Pearse Canal)
Fraser River. The Fraser River (/ ˈfreɪzər /) is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for 1,375 kilometres (854 mi), into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver. [5][9] The river's annual discharge at its mouth is 112 cubic ...
Trout Lake (British Columbia) Trout Lake is a ribbon lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Between the Selkirk Mountains to the west and the Purcell Mountains to the east, the lake is about 23 kilometres (14 mi) long and 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) wide. Lardeau Creek flows into the northern end and Lardeau River flows ...
Nelson, British Columbia. Kootenay Lake is a lake located in British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Kootenay River. The lake has been raised by the Corra Linn Dam and has a dike system at the southern end, which, along with industry in the 1950s–70s, has changed the ecosystem in and around the water. The Kootenay Lake ferry is a year ...
Surface elevation. 404 m (1,325 ft) Adams Lake is a deep, cold-water lake in south-central British Columbia, which separates the Thompson and Shuswap regions and the Thompson–Nicola and Columbia–Shuswap regional districts. [ 1] The upper reaches lie in the northern Monashee Mountains, while the lower end penetrates the Shuswap Highland.