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The Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Canada. In the 2016 census, the population was 60,439. Its area is 27,542.69 km 2 (10,634.29 sq mi). The regional district offices are in Cranbrook, the largest community in the region.
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).
The East Kootenay is the most important coal-producing area of British Columbia, [105] has since 1898 produced over 500 million tons, [105] and about 25 percent of the world's steel-making coal comes from the region. [106] Most of the coal from the East Kootenay coalfields is exported to Japan and Korea. [107]
Cranbrook (/ ˈ k r æ n b r ʊ k / KRAN-bruuk) is a city in southeast British Columbia, Canada, located approximately 10 km southwest of the confluence of the Kootenay River and the St. Mary's River. [6] It is the largest urban centre in the region known as the East Kootenay.
Fernie's welcome sign. Fernie is a city in the Elk Valley area of the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, Canada, located on BC Highway 3 on the western approaches to the Crowsnest Pass through the Rocky Mountains.
Elko is located at the junction of Highway 93 and the Crowsnest Highway, to the north of the Roosville Canada–United States border crossing. A small sawmill town, Elko is situated near the southern end of the Rocky Mountain Trench at the edge of a plateau at the base of the Canadian Rockies, in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.
Name Address Coordinates Government recognition (CRHP №) Image Fort Steele 9851 Highway 93/95, Fort Steele BC : Federal (), British Columbia () Kootenae House National Historic Site of Canada
Jaffray is an unincorporated community on the west side of Little Sand Creek in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. [1] [2] On BC Highway 3/93, the locality is by road about 80 kilometres (50 mi) southwest of Sparwood and 47 kilometres (29 mi) southeast of Cranbrook.
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