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Fort St. John hosted the BC Winter Games in 1984 and the Northern BC Winter Games in 1975, 1976, 1994, 2000, and 2007. Every August, the Great Canadian Welding Competition is held in Fort St. John, which sees welding artists fill Centennial Park creating statues on the year's given theme. In January the annual High on Ice Winter Carnival has a ...
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; Fort St. John Group, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Location of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island. The Nootka Crisis, also known as the Spanish Armament, [1] was an international incident and political dispute between the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, Spain, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the fledgling United States of America [2] triggered by a series of events revolving around sovereignty claims and rights of navigation and trade.
Santa Cruz de Nuca (or Nutca) was a Spanish colonial fort and settlement and the first European colony in what is now known as British Columbia.The settlement was founded on Vancouver Island in 1789 and abandoned in 1795, with its far northerly position making it the "high-water mark" of verified northerly Spanish settlement along the North American west coast.
Doig River First Nation – Northeast of Fort St. John, BC; Fort Nelson First Nation – Fort Nelson, BC; Halfway River First Nation – Northwest of Fort St. John, BC; Prophet River First Nation – South of Fort Nelson, BC; Saulteau First Nations – Chetwynd, BC; West Moberly First Nations – Peace River Country in northern BC
The first small fort here was erected by the French in 1701, before the founding of the city of New Orleans, to protect the important trade route along Bayou St. John. After Louisiana passed to Spanish control, a larger brick fort was constructed at the site of the neglected old French fortification; this was known as San Juan del Bayou ...
In 1893 John W. Benson purchased the island and proceeded to build a large home on the east side of the island. The home was later expanded into a hotel for visitors. On November 19, 1922 the Victoria Colonist newspaper reported that the island "had a small hotel worth visiting. There were about ten acres cleared and a portion of it was planted ...
The band is headquartered on Blueberry River 205 Indian reserve located 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Fort St. John. The band is party to Treaty 8. [1] History