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The Kootenays are more or less defined by the Kootenay Land District, though some variation exists in terms of what areas are or are not a part.The strictest definition of the region is the drainage basin of the lower Kootenay River from its re-entry into Canada near Creston, through to its confluence with the Columbia at Castlegar (illustrated by a, right).
Rossland BC 49°04′37″N 117°47′46″W / 49.0769°N 117.796°W / 49.0769; -117.796 ( Rossland Court House National Historic Site of Federal ( 7838 )
The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) is one of 28 regional districts in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2016 Canadian census, the population was 31,447. The area is 8,095.62 km 2 (3,125.74 sq mi). The RDKB was incorporated in 1966 and consists of eight incorporated municipalities and five unincorporated ...
Kootenay National Park is a national park of Canada in southeastern British Columbia. The park consists of 1,406 km 2 (543 sq mi) of the Canadian Rockies , including parts of the Kootenay and Park mountain ranges , the Kootenay River and the entirety of the Vermilion River .
The Kootenay River runs 781 kilometres (485 mi) from its headwaters in the Kootenay Ranges of the Canadian Rockies, flowing from British Columbia's East Kootenay region into northwestern Montana, then west into the northernmost Idaho Panhandle and returning to British Columbia in the West Kootenay region, where it joins the Columbia at Castlegar.
The list of provincial parks of the Kootenays contains the provincial parks located within this geographic region of the province of British Columbia. It includes parks from the three regional districts of East Kootenay, Central Kootenay and Kootenay Boundary.
The Boundary Country is a historical designation for a district in southern British Columbia lying, as its name suggests, along the boundary between Canada and the United States. [1] It lies to the east of the southern Okanagan Valley and to the west of the West Kootenay. It is often included in descriptions of both of those regions but ...
The British Columbia government's BC Names system, a subdivision of GeoBC, defines a land district as "a territorial division with legally defined boundaries for administrative purposes" [1] All land titles and surveys use the Land District system as the primary point of reference, and entries in BC Names for placenames and geographical objects ...