Chilcotin Forest is an unincorporated settlement in the
Chilcotin District of the
Central Interior of British Columbia
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,
Canada
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. It is located near
Canadian Forces Camp Chilcotin
Canadian Forces Camp Chilcotin is a Canadian Forces training camp in the Chilcotin District, to the west of the city of Williams Lake on the eastern Chilcotin Plateau. The 40977 hectares (101,256 acres) of land is currently owned by the Federal ...
and was also originally named Ninkynee, meaning "Indian's Own" in the
Chilcotin language
''Nenqayni Ch’ih'' (lit. "the Native way") (also Chilcotin, Tŝilhqotʹin, Tsilhqot’in, Tsilhqút’in) is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in British Columbia by the Tsilhqot’in people.
The name ''Chilcotin'' is derived from the Chi ...
, a reference to it being the location of the Chilcotin Forest Indian Training Centre, but this name was met with opposition by local non-native residents shortly after its designation in 1967.
Climate
There is a weather station at
Twan Lake, which is about north of Chilcotin Forest, on the
Chilcotin Plateau.Like much of the Chilcotin Plateau, Twan Lake has a
subarctic climate
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(
Köppen ''Dfc''), with relatively low precipitation.
References
Populated places in the Chilcotin
Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia
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