Invermere
Invermere is a community in eastern British Columbia, near the border of Alberta. It is the hub of the Columbia Valley between Cranbrook to the south. Invermere sits on the northwest shore of Windermere Lake and is a popular summer destination for visitors and second home owners from Calgary. Invermere is located 14 kilometres south of Radium, 104 kilometres south of Golden and 102 kilometres from the Trans-Canada Highway. Invermere is 37 kilometres north of Fairmont Hot Springs, 60 kilometres north of Canal Flats, 128 kilometres north of Fort Steele, 130 kilometres north of Kimberley, 144 kilometres north of the hub of Cranbrook and the Crowsnest Highway. Invermere is situated within the Columbia River Wetlands, North America's largest intact wetland and a Ramsar-designated site. Located in the Rocky Mountain Trench, Invermere is 17.5 kilometres from Kootenay National Park, is near the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy. Invermere's climate is characterized by cool winters; the Rocky Mountains to the east shield Invermere from the Arctic air in winter, although extreme cold spells do occur on occasion.
Spring arrives earlier than on the prairies to the east of the Rocky Mountains. Although warm, summers are variable, with weather alternating between hot, dry spells and cool, showery periods; the annual Invermere MusicFest takes place on the Pynelogs greenspace for one weekend every August. The two-day Festival attracts hundreds of people each day and delivers a high caliber of Canadian and international musical talent, including The Dead South and Lindi Ortega in 2018. HockeyThe Columbia Valley Rockies play in Invermere. Former New York Islanders and University of Denver goaltender Wade Dubielewicz was born in Invermere. SkiingPanorama Mountain Village lies about 30 minutes west. Fairmont Hot Springs Resort ski area lies 25 minutes south. Kimberley Alpine Resort is about 1 hour south in Kimberley. Kicking Horse Mountain Resort is about 1.5 hours north of Invermere in Golden, British ColumbiaSkatingThe longest ice skating trail in the world can be found on the Lake Windermere Whiteway. The frozen trail measures 29.98 kilometres.
GolfingInvermere is a major centre for golf. Copper Point Golf Club is a newer golf course about 2 kilometres east of Invermere along Highway 95/93. Eagle Ranch Golf Course is located 3 kilometres northeast of Invermere along Highway 93/95 and was rated 4.5/5.0 stars by Golf Digest. Greywolf Golf Course is located in Panorama Mountain Village is about 18 kilometres west of Invermere, along the Toby Creek canyon; the Resort Course and Springs Course at Radium Resort, Radium Hot Springs are popular. Mountainside and Riverside golf courses are located in Fairmont Hot Springs, 20 minutes south of Invermere. Edgewater Hill Top Par 3 is located in Edgewater, 20 minutes north of Invermere. Setekwa Golf Course is located about 7 kilometres north of Invermere on Highway 93/95. Windermere Valley Golf Course is located 4 kilometres south of Invermere, by the town of WindermereGliding and soaring The Invermere Airport is home to the non-profit Canadian Rockies Soaring Club; the club is active during the summer months, when it welcomes dozens of student pilots and private owners.
The Invermere Soaring Centre is a separate commercial operation which provides aerotowing services and glider rides to the general public. Canadian Rockies Soaring Club Invermere Soaring CentreThe local area is a popular destination for other non-motorized forms of flying including hang-gliding and paragliding. There are designated launch sites at nearby Mount Swansea. CurlingThe Valley is host to the biggest outdoor bonspiel in Canada every January; the spiel is held on the frozen Windermere Lake. The curling club is host to many leagues and bonspiels throughout the season. Hot springsHot springs are numerous in the area, with the major developed ones being Fairmont and Radium Hot Springs. Less developed'wilderness' hot springs can be found in the southern Columbia Valley, in Whiteswan Lake Provincial Park. Lussier Hot Springs is located 74 kilometres south of Invermere and can be accessed from the Whiteswan Forestry Road. Ram Creek Warm Springs, a less visited and cooler natural spring, can be accessed along the same route.
Invermere is home to the Columbia Valley Pioneer. On July 1, 2017, the "Pioneer" and the Invermere Valley Echo merged to one paper retaining the Columbia Valley Pioneer designation; the "Pioneer" serves the Columbia Valley region, from Spillimacheen in the north to Canal Flats in the south and is published once a week, every Thursday. Wade Dubielewicz – Ice hockey player and coach Christine Keshen – Curler Patrick Morrow – Photographer Benjamin Thomsen – Professional skier District of Invermere – District Website
Nanaimo Harbour Water Aerodrome
Nanaimo Harbour Water Aerodrome is a Seaplane Base serving the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. It is registered as an aerodrome classified as an airport, an airport of entry by Nav Canada and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency. CBSA officers at this airport can handle general aviation aircraft only, with no more than 15 passengers. List of airports on Vancouver Island
Tofino Harbour Water Aerodrome
Tofino Harbour Water Aerodrome is located in Tofino Harbour adjacent to Tofino, British Columbia, Canada. List of airports on Vancouver Island
Trail Airport
Trail Airport is located 6.1 nautical miles southeast of Trail, British Columbia, Canada and is situated in a valley beside the Columbia River. The airport serves both Trail and nearby Castlegar; the airport consists of one 4,001 ft × 75 ft asphalt runway and provides a GPS approach from the north and the south. Since April 10, 2006, Pacific Coastal has been flying into the airport using their Beechcraft 1900s, their bigger Saab 340s. In December 2017 Thanks to funding from the B. C. Air Access Program, the City of Trail offers a new 4,200 sq.ft. YZZ Airport Terminal Building to accommodate the 22,000+ yearly travelers an better travel experience with designated drop-off and pick-up zones, ample short-term and long-term parking, a spacious waiting area with easy and convenient check in; the Trail Airport offers frequent flights to Vancouver. For airport homepage see http://www.trail.ca/en/regional-airport.asp For airport information see http://www.trail.ca/en/Airport-Information.asp For airport economic development information see http://www.trail.ca/en/Airport-Economic-Development.asp For airport news see http://www.trail.ca/en/Trail-Regional-Airport-News.asp For airport webcams see http://www.trail.ca/en/Live-Web-Cam.asp For airline information see http://www.trail.ca/en/Airline-Information.asp
Invermere Airport
Invermere Airport, is located 1.4 nautical miles northeast of Invermere, British Columbia, Canada on the Shuswap Indian Band Reserve. As described in the Canadian Flight Supplement it is a Prior Permission Required airport. Landing Fees are only applicable to Commercial Aircraft, it is for small propeller driven aircraft being only 3000 ft long, larger aircraft must use Fairmont Hot Springs Airport, around 20 km away. In the Summer months there can be heavy Glider activity from Invermere Soaring Centre. Babin Air Ltd is the local air operator offering scenic and charter flights. Gliding Invermere soaring Center Canadian Rockies Soaring Club Invermere Airport Babin Air
Stewart, British Columbia
Stewart is a district municipality at the head of the Portland Canal in northwestern British Columbia, Canada on the Canada–US border. In 2011, its population was about 494; the Nisga'a, who lived around the Nass River, called the head of Portland Canal Skam-A-Kounst, meaning "safe house" or "strong house" because it served them as a retreat from the harassment of the Haida and Tlingit from the outer coast. They travelled in the area seasonally to pick berries and hunt birds, it and the rest of the Portland Canal had been the domain of the Tsetsaut people called the Skam-a-Kounst Indians, or Jits'aawit in Nisga'a, an Athapaskan people who became decimated by war and disease and were driven out of the Stewart area by either Haida or Nisga'a in 1856-57. The Portland Canal was first explored and named in July 1793 by Captain George Vancouver in honour of William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Home Secretary from 1794 to 1801. Vancouver met two friendly native people at the current site of Stewart, BC.
The area around the Portland Canal was again explored in 1896 by Captain D. D. Gaillard of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Two years after Gaillard's visit, the first prospectors and settlers arrived. Among them was D. J. Raine, for whom a creek and a mountain in the area are named; the Stewart brothers arrived in 1902. In 1905, Robert M. Stewart, the first postmaster, named the town Stewart. Gold and silver mining dominated the early economy. Nearby Hyder, boomed with the discovery of rich silver veins in the upper Salmon River basin in 1917 and 1918. Hyder became an access and supply point for the mines, while Stewart served as the port for Canadian mining activity, centred on the town of Premier, accessed by a 14 miles road from Hyder. Other mines in the area were the Jumbo, BC Silver, Red Cliff, Porter-Idaho. More large camps were south of Stewart at Maple Bay. Stewart had a population of about 10,000 prior to World War I, which declined to about 700 in 2000; as of 2005, its population had reduced to less than 500.
Disney's Eight Below, starring Paul Walker and Jason Biggs, was filmed here. The exterior shots from John Carpenter's science fiction classic The Thing were filmed in the nearby glacial mountains. Stewart is accessible by highway from the British Columbia highway system, via Highway 37A, or by air through Stewart Airport. West of Stewart is Hyder, only 3 kilometres from the town. East of the town is Meziadin Junction, 61 kilometres from the town. East is Kitwanga, British Columbia, located 218 kilometres from the town, Dease Lake, British Columbia, located 392 kilometres north of Stewart. Stewart has a humid continental climate, with about 1,866.8 mm per year of precipitation, much of it as snow, an average yearly temperature of 6.1 °C, according to Environment Canada. Stewart is Canada's most northerly ice-free port. Due to its proximity to the ocean, the climate retains strong maritime influences, with winters being far milder than locations farther inland. With an average of 985 hours of annual sunshine, Stewart is one of the cloudiest places in the world.
Alaska boundary dispute Granduc Mine Hyder, Alaska Premier, British Columbia Stewart and Hyder International Chamber of Commerce Stewart Community Information Google Map photo of Stewart Stewart Airport
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 5.016 million as of 2018, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The first British settlement in the area was Fort Victoria, established in 1843, which gave rise to the City of Victoria, at first the capital of the separate Colony of Vancouver Island. Subsequently, on the mainland, the Colony of British Columbia was founded by Richard Clement Moody and the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, in response to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Moody was Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for the Colony and the first Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia: he was hand-picked by the Colonial Office in London to transform British Columbia into the British Empire's "bulwark in the farthest west", "to found a second England on the shores of the Pacific". Moody selected the site for and founded the original capital of British Columbia, New Westminster, established the Cariboo Road and Stanley Park, designed the first version of the Coat of arms of British Columbia.
Port Moody is named after him. In 1866, Vancouver Island became part of the colony of British Columbia, Victoria became the united colony's capital. In 1871, British Columbia became the sixth province of Canada, its Latin motto is Splendor sine occasu. The capital of British Columbia remains Victoria, the fifteenth-largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Queen Victoria, who ruled during the creation of the original colonies; the largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, the second-largest in the Pacific Northwest. In October 2013, British Columbia had an estimated population of 4,606,371; the province is governed by the British Columbia New Democratic Party, led by John Horgan, in a minority government with the confidence and supply of the Green Party of British Columbia. Horgan became premier as a result of a no-confidence motion on June 29, 2017. British Columbia evolved from British possessions that were established in what is now British Columbia by 1871.
First Nations, the original inhabitants of the land, have a history of at least 10,000 years in the area. Today there are few treaties, the question of Aboriginal Title, long ignored, has become a legal and political question of frequent debate as a result of recent court actions. Notably, the Tsilhqot'in Nation has established Aboriginal title to a portion of their territory, as a result of the 2014 Supreme Court of Canada decision in Tsilhqot'in Nation v British Columbia; the province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia, i.e. "the Mainland", became a British colony in 1858. It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company. Queen Victoria chose British Columbia to distinguish what was the British sector of the Columbia District from the United States, which became the Oregon Territory on August 8, 1848, as a result of the treaty.
The Columbia in the name British Columbia is derived from the name of the Columbia Rediviva, an American ship which lent its name to the Columbia River and the wider region. British Columbia is bordered to the west by the Pacific Ocean and the American state of Alaska, to the north by Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, to the east by the province of Alberta, to the south by the American states of Washington and Montana; the southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, although its history is tied with lands as far south as California. British Columbia's land area is 944,735 square kilometres. British Columbia's rugged coastline stretches for more than 27,000 kilometres, includes deep, mountainous fjords and about 6,000 islands, most of which are uninhabited, it is the only province in Canada. British Columbia's capital is Victoria, located at the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island. Only a narrow strip of Vancouver Island, from Campbell River to Victoria, is populated.
Much of the western part of Vancouver Island and the rest of the coast is covered by temperate rainforest. The province's most populous city is Vancouver, at the confluence of the Fraser River and Georgia Strait, in the mainland's southwest corner. By land area, Abbotsford is the largest city. Vanderhoof is near the geographic centre of the province; the Coast Mountains and the Inside Passage's many inlets provide some of British Columbia's renowned and spectacular scenery, which forms the backdrop and context for a growing outdoor adventure and ecotourism industry. 75% of the province is mountainous. The province's mainland away from the coastal regions is somewhat moderated by the Pacific Ocean. Terrain ranges from dry inland forests and semi-arid valleys, to the range and canyon districts of the Central and Southern Interior, to boreal forest and subarctic prairie in the Northern Interior. High mountain regions both north and south subalpine climate; the Okanagan area, extending from Vernon to Osoyoos at the United States border, is one of several wine and cider-produci
