Alberni Valley is a broad

valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between Hill, hills or Mountain, mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers ...

located at the head of

Alberni Inlet Alberni Inlet (formerly known as Alberni Canal) is a long, narrow inlet in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, that stretches from the Pacific Ocean at Barkley Sound about inland terminating at Port Alberni. It was named by the Spanish e ...

Vancouver Island Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of British Columbia. The island is in length, in width at its widest point, and in total area, while are o ...

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. It is home to

Port Alberni Port Alberni () is a city located on Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The city lies within the Alberni Valley at the head of the Alberni Inlet, Vancouver Island's longest inlet. It is the location of the head offices o ...

Sproat Lake Sproat Lake is a lake on central Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It was known as Kleecoot, meaning "wide open" by local indigenous people. Roughly cross-shaped with four arms, it is over 25 kilometres in length, and has 90.8 kilome ...

and other outlining areas. The term is largely used as a synonym for Greater

and adjoining communities but is used in a larger regional sense as well. Various local organizations and companies use the term "Alberni Valley" in their name, e.g. the ''

Alberni Valley Times The ''Alberni Valley Times'' was a Canadian daily newspaper published weekdays in Port Alberni, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia until it was closed in 2015 by the Black Press. The paper is owned by Black Press, which also published the ''N ...

'' and ''Alberni Valley News'' newspapers the Alberni Valley Chamber of Commerce and the

Alberni Valley Bulldogs The Alberni Valley Bulldogs are a Junior "A" ice hockey team based in Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Island Division of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL). They play their home games at Weyerhaeuser Arena ...

minor hockey team. The Canadian pioneer,

Joe Drinkwater Della Falls is a waterfall located within Strathcona Provincial Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. With a total height of , it ranks as the 16th tallest confirmed waterfall in Canada and the second tallest on Vancouver Island a ...

lived in Alberni Valley during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Geography

Mount Arrowsmith Mount Arrowsmith is the highest mountain east of Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. Its dominant rock is basalt. The mountain is contained within the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region and as of September 18, 2009 is designated part of hectare ...

is the largest mountain on southern Vancouver Island. It has some of the most accessible alpine and sub-alpine areas for Victoria and other large towns on the Island. These zones contain several rare and endangered species of plants and animals, the most notable of which is the

Vancouver Island Marmot The Vancouver Island marmot (''Marmota vancouverensis'') naturally occurs only in the high mountains of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia. This particular marmot species is large compared to some other marmots, and most other rodents. Marmots ...

, which has the dubious distinction of being Canada's rarest mammal. Although the mountain is contained within a

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it is not part of a park. Efforts are currently underway to confer official park status on the alpine areas of the Arrowsmith massif and surrounding areas. *

Beaufort Range The Beaufort Range is a mountain range on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, located north of Port Alberni and to the west of Qualicum Beach, and running from Horne Lake in the southeast to Comox Lake in the northwest. It has a ...

North of Port Alberni and west of Qualicum Beach. *Ash Lake *

Buttle Lake Buttle Lake is a lake on Vancouver Island in Strathcona Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. It is about long and wide, has an area of , is up to deep, and lies at an elevation of . The lake is located between Campbell River and Gold R ...

* Cameron Lake * Devils Den Lake *Dickson Lake *Doran Lake * Elsie Lake *

Esary Lake Esary Lake is a small lake located east of Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada. It lies west of Horne Lake. Access Access to the lake is up past horne lake caves left over bridge on the left follow up to logging access gate. 4 kilometers up t ...

Father and Son Lake Father and Son Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, at the head of Franklin River. See also *List of lakes of British Columbia This is an incomplete list of lakes of British Columbia, a province of Canada. L ...

* Gracie Lake *

Great Central Lake Great Central Lake is a lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is located north of Sproat Lake and to the northwest of the city of Port Alberni. It is long, with an area of and mean depth of , to a maximum of , making it the s ...

is a large lake in the Alberni Valley The lake has a surface area of 51 square kilometres and a maximum depth of 294 m. It takes its name from the fact that it is a large lake in the center of Vancouver Island. *

Hucuktlis Lake Hucuktlis Lake (pronounced "who chook-tlis"), formerly Henderson Lake, is a lake on Vancouver Island that drains south into head of Uchucklesaht Inlet on the north side of lower Alberni Inlet. Etymology Hucuktlis means "place way inside", which r ...

* Henry Lake *

Horne Lake Horne Lake is located west of Qualicum Beach. Named after Adam Grant Horne, Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of ...

* Kammat Lake * Kennedy Lake is the largest

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, Canada. Located northeast of

Ucluelet Ucluelet (, also Ukee) is a district municipality (population 1,717) on the Ucluelet Peninsula on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Ucluelet means "people of the safe harbour" in the indigenous Nuu-chah-nulth (No ...

on the Island's central west coast, the lake is formed chiefly by the confluence of the Clayoquot and Kennedy Rivers. * Klitsa Mountain * Labour Day Lake *

Lacy Lake Lacy Lake is a small lake located east of Port Alberni, British Columbia. It lies south east of Esary Lake. It is the main water supply for the Cherry Creek Improvement District. Access Lacy Lake can be accessed by following Horne Lake Road, ...

* Little Toquart Lake * Lizard Pond * Lowry Lake * Long Lake * McLaughlin Lake * Maggie Lake * Marshy Lake *

Muriel Lake Muriel Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is in length, in width at its widest point, and in total ...

* Nahmint Lake *

Nitinat Lake Nitinat Lake is a large lake and inlet on the southwestern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The lake is about northwest by road from Victoria, BC's capital on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, and about southwest by r ...

, named after

Gilbert Malcolm Sproat Gilbert Malcolm Sproat (19 April 1834 – 4 June 1913) was a Scottish-born Canadian businessman, office holder, and author. Biography Born in Brighouse Farm Borgue near Kirkcudbright, Scotland, he arrived on Vancouver Island in 1860, where h ...

, is a

in central

. Home of the last Martin Mars Waterbombers, and nearby to

. *

Tsable Lake Tsable Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island, Canada, south east of Comox Lake. See also *List of lakes of British Columbia This is an incomplete list of lakes of British Columbia, a province of Canada. Larger lake statistics * List o ...

* Toquart Lake *

Turnbull Lake Turnbull Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island north of Great Central Lake, south east of Elsie Lake Elsie Lake is a lake on Vancouver Island Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian pro ...

* Turtle Lake * Uchuck Lake * Stamp Falls * Stamp River * Somass River *

Kennedy River Kennedy may refer to: People * John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), 35th president of the United States * John Kennedy (Louisiana politician), (born 1951), US Senator from Louisiana * Kennedy (surname), a family name (including a list of persons with ...

* Ash River * Taylor River *Rogers Creek * China Creek * Drinkwater Creek * Cherry Creek * Beaver Creek * Sproat River *

is a long, narrow

inlet An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea. Overview In marine geogra ...

, Canada, that stretches from the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

Barkley Sound , image = Fishing boat in the Broken Group Islands.jpg , image_size = 260px , alt = , caption = Barkley Sound , image_bathymetry = , alt_bathymetry = , caption_bathymetry = , locat ...

about inland terminating at

. *

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Della Falls Della Falls is a waterfall located within Strathcona Provincial Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. With a total height of , it ranks as the 16th tallest confirmed waterfall in Canada and the second tallest on Vancouver Island a ...

Della Falls is a waterfall in Strathcona Provincial Park on Vancouver Island. It is widely regarded as the tallest in Canada.

First Nations

First Nations cultures are an essential part of the Alberni Valley's makeup. The Tseshaht and the Hupacasath are two of the tribes that make up the

Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council is a First Nations Tribal Council in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The organization is based in Port Alberni, British Columbia. History The Nuu-chah- ...

References

External links

Alberni Valley Tourism (official website)
{{Subdivisions of British Columbia, regions=yes Valleys of British Columbia West Coast of Vancouver Island