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Anne climbed Tunnel Mountain over 8000 times over a 40-year period, averaging 200 ascents a year. [10] Ness was even known to climb the mountain twice a day; once during lulls in her job, and a second in the evening. [6] Famed wildlife artist Carl Rungius had his ashes scattered on the mountain, as he loved the view of Banff and the Bow Valley. [6]
In 1903, the Vancouver Power Company (now BC Hydro) built a 3.6 km (2 mi) long, 1.2 km (1 mi) deep tunnel under Eagle Mountain from Coquitlam Lake to Buntzen Lake to supply water to Vancouver's first hydroelectric power plant on Indian Arm. [2] This tunnel, and the power plants on Indian Arm are still operational.
Coquihalla Canyon Park is on the north shore of the Coquihalla River in southwestern British Columbia. This provincial park includes the Othello Tunnels to the east and the mouth of the Nicolum River to the south. [2] The tunnels were part of the Kettle Valley Railway (KV). Off Othello Rd, the locality is by road about 8 kilometres (5 mi) east ...
Hwy 1 passes underneath Hastings Street via the Cassiar Tunnel; Hwy 1 exit 26: Burnaby: 12.8: 8.0: Hastings Street (to Burnaby Mountain Parkway) – Simon Fraser University: Renamed "Barnet Road" Port Moody: 23.5: 14.6: Dewdney Trunk Road: Coquitlam: 25.9: 16.1: Highway 7 (Lougheed Highway) / Pinetree Way – Port Coquitlam
Fairmont Bridge across the Columbia River: Fairmont Hot Springs: 190.85: 118.59: Riverview Road, Fairmont Resort Road: Invermere: 213.93: 132.93: Athalmer Road: Access to Panorama Mountain: Radium Hot Springs: 227.09: 141.11: Highway 95 north – Golden: North end of Hwy 95 concurrency; south end of Banff–Windermere Highway: Kootenay National ...
The Tunnel Mountain Formation is present in the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies of western Alberta, and reaches a maximum thickness of about 200 metres (600 ft). It unconformably overlies the Etherington Formation or the Todhunter Formation of the Mississippian Rundle Group, and is conformably overlain by the Late Pennsylvanian Kananaskis Formation.
The Millennium Line is the second line of the SkyTrain rapid transit system in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada.The line is owned and operated by BC Rapid Transit Company, a subsidiary of TransLink, and links the cities of Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam and Port Moody.
Kicking Horse Pass (el. 1,627 m; 5,338 ft) is a high mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Americas of the Canadian Rockies on the Alberta–British Columbia border, and lying within Yoho and Banff national parks. Divide Creek forks onto both sides of the continental divide.