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British Columbia Highway 118
British Columbia Highway 118, also known as the ''Central Babine Lake Highway'' and signed as ''Topley Landing, British Columbia, Topley Landing Road'', is a 50 km (31 mi) long minor spur of the Yellowhead Highway in the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako. Signed as such in 2003, Highway 118 is the highest numbered highway in the province not derived from the continuation of a US highway. The lightly used highway provides a connection from the Yellowhead at the community of Topley, British Columbia, Topley north to the village of Granisle, British Columbia, Granisle. External links Highway Routes in British Columbia References British Columbia provincial highways, 118 {{BritishColumbia-road-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topley, British Columbia
Topley is a village in northern British Columbia, Canada, located on the Yellowhead Highway (British Columbia Highway 16) between Houston and Burns Lake. It is named for the photographer William James Topley William James Topley (13 February 1845 – 16 November 1930) was a Canadians, Canadian photographer based in Ottawa, Ontario. He was the best known of Ottawa’s nineteenth-century photographers and the most socially prominent one. Topley was not .... References Designated places in British Columbia Populated places in the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako {{BritishColumbia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granisle, British Columbia
Granisle () is a village on Babine Lake in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, to the north of Topley between Burns Lake and Houston. History The early inhabitants of the area were Carrier Indians, called "Babine" by the early explorers, referring to the distended ornamented lower lips of the native women. The village of Granisle was founded in the late 1960s and early 1970s on the shores of Babine Lake as a home for the families of the miners working in the nearby copper mines. Granisle was incorporated as a village in 1971. At the height of its population, Granisle boasted approximately 3,000 people. After the last mine shut down in 1992, the community transformed into a retirement destination. Tourism in the area also began to grow and is now the area's main industry. In 1971 workmen excavating in an open-pit copper mine at Babine Lake discovered the partly articulated skeleton of a Columbian Mammoth. The bones were taken from silty pond deposits overla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topley Landing, British Columbia
Topley Landing is an unincorporated community at the outlet of the Fulton River on the western shore of Babine Lake in northwest British Columbia, Canada. Topley Landing is located just off British Columbia Highway 118, Highway 118. It is within the Pacific Time Zone and observes daylight saving time. The largest local settlement is Smithers, British Columbia, Smithers, about west of Topley Landing. Topley, British Columbia, Topley lies about to the south. Description The community has 83 homes, with a few full-time residents, most of the homes being seasonal dwellings for the large influx of tourists visiting in the summer months. The sockeye salmon fishery, which opens for six weeks from the beginning of August, attracts many campers and boaters to the area. The Lake Babine Nation, Nat'oot'en Nation, a First Nations in Canada, First Nations band government, has a community called Tachek (or Tachet) nearby. History Topley Landing dates back to 1822, when it was established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellowhead Highway
The Yellowhead Highway (french: Route Yellowhead) is a major interprovincial highway in Western Canada that runs from Winnipeg to Graham Island off the coast of British Columbia via Saskatoon and Edmonton. It stretches across the four western Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba and is part of the Trans-Canada Highway system and the larger National Highway System, but should not be confused with the more southerly, originally-designated Trans-Canada Highway. The highway was officially opened in 1970. Beginning in 1990, the green and white Trans-Canada logo was used to designate the roadway. The highway is named for the Yellowhead Pass, the route chosen to cross the Canadian Rockies. The pass and the highway are named after a fur trader and explorer named Pierre Bostonais. He had yellow streaks in his hair, and was nicknamed "Tête Jaune" (Yellowhead). Almost the entire length of the highway is numbered as 16, except for the section in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional District Of Bulkley-Nechako
The Regional District of Bulkley–Nechako (RDBN) is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2016 census, the population was 37,896. The area is 73,419.01 square kilometres. The regional district offices are in Burns Lake. Its geographical components are the Bulkley Valley, the northern part of the Nechako Country, and the Omineca Country, including portions of the Hazelton Mountains and Omineca Mountains in the west and north of the regional district, respectively. The dominant landform is the Nechako Plateau. Neighbouring regional districts are the Kitimat-Stikine, Central Coast, Cariboo, Fraser-Fort George, and Peace River Regional Districts; on its north the boundary with the southern edge of the remote Stikine Region is separated from the Bulkley–Nechako Regional District by the 56th parallel north. The boundaries of the regional district near-entirely coincide with the territory of the Dakelh or Carrier peoples, and als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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