Montney is an unincorporated locality located in
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that ...
about north of
Fort St. John, near
Beatton Provincial Park.
It lies at an elevation of , along the
BC Rail
The British Columbia Railway Company , commonly known as BC Rail, is a railway in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Chartered as a private company in 1912 as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE), it was acquired by the provincial ...
tracks.
The settlement gives the name to the
Montney Formation, a gas-bearing
geological unit
A stratigraphic unit is a volume of rock of identifiable origin and relative age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features ( facies) that characteriz ...
first described in a well located north-west of the hamlet.
The name of the town is an Anglicized form of an Indigenous name. The fact that the name is spelled the same as the Montney family name is purely coincidental.
References
BCGNIS listing "Montney (Locality)"
Peace River Country
Populated places in the Peace River Regional District
Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia
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