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Baynes Lake
Baynes Lake is an unincorporated rural community on the east shore of Lake Koocanusa, just north of the mouth of the Elk River, in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Off BC Highway 93, the locality is by road about southEAST of Cranbrook and southWEST of Fernie. Name origin In 1896, Andrew Bain preempted land on the shores of what became known as Baynes Lake, the name later being adopted by the community. Railways In September 1902, the rail head of the Great Northern Railway (GN) advanced northward through the locality. The Baynes station, which opened in 1904, included a water tank. The stop was north of Krag and south of Mott. Passenger service was not available before 1905 or possibly 1906, when Baynes became a flag stop. By 1907, it was a regular stop, for years, the only one between Fernie, BC, and Rexford, Montana. The station served as late as 1935, but had closed by 1936 with the abandonment of the Elko–Rexford section of track that y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts and grassy plains, and borders the province of Alberta to the east and the Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north. With an estimated population of 5.3million as of 2022, it is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria and its largest city is Vancouver. Vancouver is List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada; the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 census recorded 2.6million people in Metro Vancouver Regional District, Metro Vancouver. The First Nations in Canada, first known human inhabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preemption (land)
Preemption was a term used in the nineteenth century to refer to a settler's right to purchase public land at a federally set minimum price; it was a right of first refusal. Usually this was conferred to male heads of households who developed the property into a farm. If he was a citizen or was taking steps to become one and he and his family developed the land (buildings, fields, fences) he had the right to then buy that land for the minimum price. Land was otherwise sold through auction, typically at a price too high for these settlers. Preemption is similar to squatter's rights and mining claims. Preemption was politically controversial, primarily among land speculators and their allies in government. In the early history of the United States, and even to some degree during the colonial era, settlers were moving into the "virgin wilderness" and building homes and farms without regard to land title. The improvements increased the value of all the nearby property. Eventually th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In The Regional District Of East Kootenay
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Environment Canada
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC; french: Environnement et Changement climatique Canada),Environment and Climate Change Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of the Environment (). is the department of the Government of Canada responsible for coordinating environmental policies and programs, as well as preserving and enhancing the natural environment and renewable resources. It is also colloquially known by its former name, Environment Canada (EC; french: Environnement Canada, links=no). The minister of environment and climate change has been Steven Guilbeault since October 26, 2021; Environment and Climate Change Canada supports the minister's mandate to: "preserve and enhance the quality of the natural environment, including water, air, soil, flora and fauna; conserve Canada's renewable resources; conserve and protect Canada's water resources; forecast daily weather conditions and warnings, and provide detaile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libby Dam
Libby Dam is a concrete gravity dam in the northwestern United States, on the Kootenai River in northwestern Montana. Dedicated on it is west of the continental divide, upstream from the town of Libby. At in height and a length of , Libby Dam created Lake Koocanusa, a reservoir which extends upriver with a maximum depth of about . of it are in Canada in southeastern British Columbia. Lake Koocanusa was named for the treaty that was developed between the Kootenai Indians, the Canadian government, and the U.S. government to build the dam and form the It was the fourth dam constructed under the Columbia River Treaty. The Kootenai River is the third largest tributary to the Columbia River, contributing almost twenty percent of the total water in the lower Columbia. Libby Dam has the capacity to hold back of water. The consulting architect for the project was Paul Thiry of Seattle, and the commission for its large granite bas-relief was awarded to sculptor Albert Wein by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldo, British Columbia
Waldo is a ghost town in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. About north of Krag (another ghost town), the remnants are submerged beside the east shore of Lake Koocanusa, just north of the mouth of the Elk River. Off BC Highway 93, the site is by road about southwest of Cranbrook and southeast of Fernie. Name origin Formerly called Crow's Nest Landing, the town began in the 1890s as a refuelling point for the wood-burning steamboats travelling the Kootenay River. At the time, William Waldorf Waldo, a real estate speculator, acquired extensive land for subdivision. Upper Waldo was the main settlement and Lower Waldo was downstream. Railways In September 1902, the rail head of the Great Northern Railway (GN) advanced northward through the locality. Waldo was the main lumber town on this GN route. The flag stop, which opened around 1911, was north of Dorr and south of Baynes. Around 1924, the station moved about northward and served as late as 1935, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway (french: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, the railway owns approximately of track in seven provinces of Canada and into the United States, stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, and as far north as Edmonton. Its rail network also serves Minneapolis–St. Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and Albany, New York, in the United States. The railway was first built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885 (connecting with Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay area lines built earlier), fulfilling a commitment extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871; the CPR was Canada's first transcontinental railw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elko, British Columbia
Elko is located at the junction of Highway 93 and the Crowsnest Highway, to the north of the Roosville Canada–United States border crossing. A small sawmill town, Elko is situated near the southern end of the Rocky Mountain Trench at the edge of a plateau at the base of the Canadian Rockies, in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. Location Elko is located in the extreme southeastern corner of British Columbia, in the Regional District of East Kootenay, at the junction of Highway 93 and Highway 3, south of Fernie and approximately north of the Canada–United States border border crossing at Roosville. Angling is available on the Kootenay River and the nearby Bull River. The population of Elko is 163. History The Kutenai (Ktunaxa) had for generations mined argillite in the neighbourhood, there was nothing at Elko but a few survey stakes and a crude tote road before the Foley Brothers' grading crews worked through here towards the end of May, 1898, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rexford, Montana
Rexford is a town in Lincoln County, Montana, United States. The population was 78 at the 2020 census. The town began with the construction of the Great Northern Railway’s branch line from Jennings to Fernie, British Columbia in 1901. Rexford incorporated in 1966 in order to negotiate with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during construction of the Libby Dam. Geography Rexford is located at (48.899254, -115.168681). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Rexford was originally located on the Kootenai River The Kootenay or Kootenai river is a major river in the Northwest Plateau, in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, and northern Montana and Idaho in the United States. It is one of the uppermost major tributaries of the Columbia River, the ..., but with the damming of the river in the 1970s the original townsite was flooded and the town was moved to its current location approximately 10 miles west of Eureka on Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Request Stop
In public transport, a request stop, flag stop, or whistle stop is a stop or station at which buses or trains, respectively, stop only on request; that is, only if there are passengers or freight to be picked up or dropped off. In this way, stops with low passenger counts can be incorporated into a route without introducing unnecessary delay. Vehicles may also save fuel by continuing through a station when there is no need to stop. There may not always be significant savings on time if there is no one to pick up because vehicles going past a request stop may need to slow down enough to be able to stop if there are passengers waiting. Request stops may also introduce extra travel time variability and increase the need for schedule padding. The appearance of request stops varies greatly. Many are clearly signed, but many others rely on local knowledge. Implementations The methods by which transit vehicles are notified that there are passengers waiting to be picked up at a requ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krag, British Columbia
Krag is a ghost town located in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. The town is situated near the ghost town of Waldo Waldo may refer to: People * Waldo (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Waldo (surname), a list of people * Waldo (footballer) (1934-2019), full name Waldo Machado da Silva, Brazilian footballer Places Canada * Waldo, ... at Junction of Elk and Kootenay Rivers, Southeast of Cranbrook. Krag was flooded and the town is now underwater. References {{Reflist Ghost towns in British Columbia Submerged settlements in Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Northern Railway (U
Great Northern Railway or Great Northern Railroad may refer to: Australia * Great Northern Railway (Queensland) in Australia * Great Northern Rail Services in Victoria, Australia * Central Australia Railway was known as the great Northern Railway in the 1890s in South Australia * Main North railway line, New South Wales (Australia) Canada * Great Northern Railway of Canada Ireland * Great Northern Railway (Ireland) New Zealand * Kingston Branch (New Zealand) in Southland *Main North Line, New Zealand and Waiau Branch in Canterbury United Kingdom * Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) ** Thameslink and Great Northern, a current operator of trains on this route United States * Great Northern Railway (U.S.), now part of the BNSF Railway system * International – Great Northern Railroad in Texas, U.S., now part of the Union Pacific Railroad * New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern in Louisiana and Mississippi, U.S., now part of the Canadian National Railway (freight trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
