by CoastView | Sep 5, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Malachan is a Ditidaht community of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation located at the head of Nitinat Lake on the west coast of Vancouver Island, 37 miles (60 km) southeast of Bamfield, and 93 miles (150 km) northwest by road from Victoria, British Columbia. The name...
by CoastView | Aug 29, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
The Seymour River flows from a large reservoir into Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The river is named after Frederick Seymour who was the governor of British Columbia from 1864 until his death from acute alcoholism aboard the HMS Sparrowhawk at...
by CoastView | Aug 22, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Humpback Bay is an embayment on the north coast of Porcher Island off Malacca Passage, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The bay is the site of a community named Porcher and the now derelict Porcher Island Cannery near the mouth of Back...
by CoastView | Aug 6, 2022 | 2022, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Gingolx is one of four Nisga’a villages that make up the Nisga’a First Nation and is situated at the confluence of the Kincolith River and the Nass River on the northern shore of Nass Bay, about 70 miles (113 km) east-southeast of Ketchikan and 50 miles...
by CoastView | Jul 30, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Tlell River starts on the eastern flank of Graham Island in Haida Gwaii and drains a watershed of about 85,000 acres (34,400 ha), flowing generally north-northeast for 28 miles (45 km) to Hecate Strait near the wreck of the steamship SS Pezuta, about 29 miles (47 km)...
by CoastView | Jul 23, 2022 | 2022, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Beaver Point is a prominent headland in Ruckle Provincial Park on the southeastern shore of Salt Spring Island in the Southern Gulf Islands and at the northwestern end of Swanson Channel, about 8 miles (13 km) north-northeast of Sidney and 4 miles (6 km) east of...
