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Fort St. John is a city located in northeastern British Columbia, Canada.The most populous municipality in the Peace River Regional District, the city encompasses a total area of about 22 km 2 (8.5 sq mi) with 21,465 residents recorded in the 2021 Census.
European-Canadian explorers penetrated the area during the 19th century by canoeing along the Peace River and establishing trading posts at Fort St. John and Hudson's Hope. In 1883 the province gave the federal government control over 3,500,000 acres (14,200 km 2 ) of land, anywhere north the Rocky Mountains, as part of a deal to extend a rail ...
Comox is the largest town in British Columbia by population.. British Columbia has 161 municipalities, [1] out of which 14 are classified as towns. [2] According to the 2021 Canadian census, British Columbia is the third most populous province in Canada, with 5,000,879 inhabitants, and the fourth largest province by land area, covering 920,686.55 km 2 (355,479.06 sq mi).
The Hudson's Hope Airport, 6 km (4 mi) west of town, is a small airport with a 1,585 m (5,200 ft)-long paved runway that handles private and chartered flights. The closest commercial airport, with regularly scheduled flights, is approximately 86 km (53 mi) to the east, near Fort St. John.
Montney is an unincorporated locality located in British Columbia about 15 miles (24 km) north of Fort St. John, near Beatton Provincial Park.. It lies at an elevation of 700 meters (2,300 ft), along the BC Rail tracks.
Fort St. John may refer to: Fort St. John, British Columbia , a city in British Columbia, Canada Spanish Fort (New Orleans) , also known as Fort St. John, a historic place in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Highway 97 is a major highway in the Canadian province of British Columbia.It is the longest continuously numbered route in the province, running 2,081 km (1,293 mi) and is the only route that runs the entire north–south length of British Columbia, connecting the Canada–United States border near Osoyoos in the south to the British Columbia–Yukon boundary in the north at Watson Lake, Yukon.
Charlie Lake is a lake in north-eastern British Columbia, Canada, situated 8 km (5.0 mi) west from Fort St. John, along the Alaska Highway.The lake provides the water supply for the city of Fort St. John. [2] The Charlie Lake Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin is named for the lake.