by CoastView | Nov 19, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Communities, Embayments
Kitamaat Village is located on the eastern shore of the Kitimat Arm extension of Douglas Channel, about 71 miles (115 km) southeast of Prince Rupert and 6 miles (10 km) south of the community of Kitimat, British Columbia. The village was formerly named Kitimat Mission...
by CoastView | Nov 12, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Historical, Islands
Bentinck Island is located between Cape Calver and Race Rocks in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Sooke, and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Victoria, British Columbia. The island was likely named by Captain George Vancouver in 1793 for William...
by CoastView | Nov 5, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Communities, Islands
Miners Bay is located on Mayne Island, on the southeast side of Active Pass which separates Galiano and Mayne Islands, about 14.5 miles (23 km) north-northeast of Sidney, British Columbia. Mayne Island is in the southern Gulf Islands, midway between the Lower Mainland...
by CoastView | Oct 30, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
D’Arcy Island is one of the Southern Gulf Islands in Haro Strait with about 205 acres (83 ha), situated 2.3 miles (3.7 km) west-southwest of the international border and part of the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, about 30 miles (48 km) west of Anacortes and...
by CoastView | Oct 23, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Shipwrecks
HMCS Mackenzie was a destroyer launched in 1961 and served until 1993 in the Royal Canadian Navy and in the Canadian Forces before being scuttled in Haro Strait in a channel between Cornet and Gooch Islands in the Southern Gulf Islands, about 18 miles (29 km)...
by CoastView | Oct 16, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
The Canadian Fishing Company operates fish processing plants on Prince Rupert Harbour at Seal Cove and at George Hills Way, about 89 miles (143 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 72 miles (116 km) west-southwest of Terrace, British Columbia. George Hills Way is named...
