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Kitamaat Village, formerly Kitimat Mission, [1] [2] is the principal community of the Haisla people and their government, the Haisla Nation. Located on the Kitamaat 2 First Nations Reserve (formerly Kitimat 2) on the east side of Kitimat Arm just south of the town of Kitimat , British Columbia.
Kitamaat Village, which serves as the Haisla reserve, is located a 20-minute drive south of Kitimat town. Kitimat is known for housing the aluminum smelter of Alcan Incorporated and is situated at the head of the Douglas Channel, a fjord spanning 90 km (56 mi) that acts as a saltwater corridor connecting the community, the town, and the port of Kitimat to the Pacific Ocean.
In 2004 the Houston-based firm Douglas Channel Energy Partners (DCEP) approached the corporate arm of Haisla band council regarding a potential construction project for a barge-based LNG facility. In 2011, HN DC LNG LP, a limited partnership, was formed for the Haisla Nation to engage in and benefit from western Canada's liquefied natural gas ...
The history of Sri Lanka covers Sri Lanka and the history of the Indian subcontinent and its surrounding regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. Prehistoric Sri Lanka goes back 125,000 years and possibly even as far back as 500,000 years. [1] The earliest humans found in Sri Lanka date to Prehistoric times about 35,000 years ...
The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. 1486. 23 February 2007. "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications" (PDF). The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. 1553. 6 June 2008. "PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications" (PDF).
Which gives the history in considerable detail from the 3rd century and less reliably back to the 6th century BC. Sri Lanka has more than 250,000 identified archaeological sites throughout the country [1] and some of them have been declared as archaeological reserves and protected monuments by the Sri Lanka archaeological department ...
The most recent site, the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka, was listed in 2010. The Central Highlands and the Sinharaja Forest Reserve are natural sites, the other six are cultural. In addition, Sri Lanka has four sites on its tentative list. The country served as a member of the World Heritage Committee in the years 1983–1989. [3]
Pita Kotte Gal Ambalama (Sinhala:පිටකෝට්ටේ ගල් අම්බලම) is a historic Ambalama building (wayside rest) situated at Pita Kotte junction, Western province, Sri Lanka. It was used as a resting place or waiting place for the visitors who came to ancient capital of Kotte kingdom as well as Kotte Raja Maha Vihara .