:''Not the Galena Bay on

Kootenay Lake Kootenay Lake is a lake located in British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Kootenay River. The lake has been raised by the Corra Linn Dam and has a dike system at the southern end, which, along with industry in the 1950s–70s, has changed th ...

Riondel Riondel is on the eastern shore of Kootenay Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The village of approximately 250 people is on Riondel Road about north of Kootenay Bay, British Columbia, Kootenay Bay, the Kootenay Lak ...

'' Galena Bay is an unincorporated locality, on the bay of the same name, at the head of

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in the

West Kootenay The Kootenays or Kootenay ( ) is a region of southeastern British Columbia. It takes its name from the Kootenay River, which in turn was named for the Kutenai First Nations people. Boundaries The Kootenays are more or less defined by the Kootenay ...

region of southeastern

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. The bay was formerly called Thumb Bay, because it had the appearance of a giant thumb on early maps, but was renamed Galena Bay by 1890. Significant

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mining occurred in this area. In 1897, a townsite called Rosenheim was cleared, and a hotel built, for a planned railway linking with

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and Trout Lake, but the project evaporated within a year. Galena Bay remained the name of the neighbourhood. In 1957, the locality became the eastern terminal for the Arrowhead–Galena Bay ferry. Since 1968, the western terminal has been Shelter Bay. This ferry link forms part of

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from

Nakusp The Village of Nakusp (Sinixt ''neqo'sp'') is beside the mouth of Kuskanax Creek, on the Upper Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Lying between the Selkirk and Monashee ranges, the village is known for its ...

to Revelstoke. Galena Bay is also the terminus of

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, which runs northeast, then southeast via Trout Lake and

Lardeau Lardeau is an unincorporated community, and former mining town and steamboat landing. The settlement is on the west shore near the head of Kootenay Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Lardo and Lardeau were used int ...

and then south down the west side of the north arm of

to Balfour, near

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* * Ferry transport in British Columbia Arrow Lakes Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia Bays of British Columbia Populated places in the West Kootenay {{CentralKootenay-geo-stub

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