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The Semiahmoo Harbor Lighthouse was a lighthouse on Semiahmoo (/ ˌ s ɛ m i ˈ ɑː m oʊ / SEM-ee-AH-moh) Bay near the port of Blaine, Whatcom County, Washington, in the United States. [ 1 ] History
Semiahmoo Bay, just south of White Rock. Point Roberts can be seen on the horizon. Semiahmoo Bay (/ ˌ s ɛ m i ˈ ɑː m oʊ / SEM-ee-AH-moh) is the southeastern section of Boundary Bay on the Pacific coast of North America in British Columbia, Canada. The bay is named for the Semiahmoo First Nation, who originally occupied the area
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Semiahmoo (/ ˌ s ɛ m i ˈ ɑː m oʊ / SEM-ee-AH-moh, / ˌ s ɛ m i ˈ ɑː m uː / SEM-ee-AH-moo; North Straits Salish: SEMYOME or səmyámə) may refer to: Semiahmoo Bay , south-eastern section of Boundary Bay, bisected by the US-Canada border near White Rock, British Columbia
Originally labelled Campbell Creek in 1917 by the Geographic Board of Canada, [3] it was labelled Tahtaloo on International Boundary Survey sheet 2 (date not cited) (a toponym derived from Tah-tu-lo, the Semiahmoo endonym for their dialect of Straits Salish); variant spellings include Tahla too, Tah-la-loo, and Tah tu lo. [4]
The Semiahmoo Indian Reserve (/ ˌ s ɛ m i ˈ ɑː m uː / SEM-ee-AH-moo) is a 129.1-hectare (320 acre) [1] Indian reserve in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia, located on Semiahmoo Bay between the City of White Rock and Peace Arch Park, which sits astride the international boundary with Washington state.
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Semiahmoo was expected to become a migration boomtown, but it eventually developed into a fishing town, as the spit provided shelter for Drayton Harbor and an abundance of coastal resources. Whatcom County's first salmon cannery opened in 1881 in Semiahmoo; in 1891, the Alaska Packers Association was the largest salmon cannery in the world.