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  2. Okanagan Lake - Wikipedia

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    Okanagan Lake (Okanagan: kɬúsx̌nítkw) [3] is a lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. The lake is 135 km (84 mi) long, between 4 and 5 km (2.5 and 3.1 mi) wide, and has a surface area of 348 km 2 (135 sq. mi.).

  3. Okanagan Lake Provincial Park - Wikipedia

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    Okanagan Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. [3] Established in 1955, the park covers a total area of 98 hectares (240 acres). [4]

  4. Okanogan River - Wikipedia

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    The Okanagan River rises in southern British Columbia, issuing out of the southern end of Okanagan Lake, which is on the north side of the city of Penticton.It flows south past Penticton, through Skaha Lake, past Okanagan Falls, through Vaseux Lake, and past Oliver to Osoyoos and Osoyoos Lake, which spans the Canada–United States border and has its outlet into the Okanogan River at Oroville ...

  5. Record sockeye salmon run on Columbia River is now threatened ...

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    Sockeye salmon are booming up the Columbia to the Okanagan lake system of Canada, nine dams from the sea. ... Today sockeye contend with as many as 700 million pink salmon pumped into the ocean by ...

  6. List of lakes of Canada - Wikipedia

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    This is a partial list of lakes of Canada. Canada has an extremely large number of lakes, with the number of lakes larger than three square kilometres being estimated at close to 31,752 by the Atlas of Canada. Of these, 561 lakes have a surface area larger than 100 km 2, [1] including four of the Great Lakes. Almost 9% (891,163 square ...

  7. Fisheries Act (Canada) - Wikipedia

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    The Act, then known as An Act for the regulation of Fishing and the protection of Fisheries was passed into law on May 22, 1868, in the 1st Canadian Parliament. [2] The Act replaced An Act to amend Chapter 62 of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, and to provide for the better regulation of Fishing and protection of Fisheries passed by the Province of Canada. [2]

  8. List of provincial parks of the Okanagan - Wikipedia

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    The list of provincial parks of the Okanagan contains the provincial parks located within this geographic region of the province of British Columbia. It includes parks from the three regional districts of Central Okanagan , North Okanagan and Okanagan-Similkameen .

  9. Wood Lake (British Columbia) - Wikipedia

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    Wood Lake is a lake in a chain of five major lakes which occupies portions of the Okanagan Valley in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. [1] The lakes of the Okanagan Valley were formed by about 8900 BP. [2] Wood Lake is immediately south of Kalamalka Lake and in 1908 was connected to it by a dredged channel (the Oyama canal). [1]