Alberni Valley is a broad

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located at the head of Alberni Inlet on

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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 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'' and ''Alberni Valley News'' newspapers the Alberni Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Alberni Valley Bulldogs minor hockey team. The Canadian pioneer, Joe Drinkwater lived in Alberni Valley during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Geography

* Mount Arrowsmith 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, 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 North of Port Alberni and west of Qualicum Beach. *Ash Lake * Buttle Lake * Cameron Lake *

Devils Den Lake Devils Den Lake is a small lake located on Vancouver Island four kilometres west of 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 ...

*Dickson Lake *Doran Lake *

Elsie Lake Elsie Lake is a lake on Vancouver Island located south east of Comox Lake Comox Lake is a glacier fed freshwater lake located in mid-Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is located northwest of the smaller Beaufort Lake in the Comox ...

* Esary Lake *

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 References {{BritishColumbiaCoast-geo-stub Alberni Valley Lakes of Vancouver ...

Gracie Lake Gracie Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island north west of the north end of Nahmint Lake Nahmint Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island south of Sproat Lake, north east of Hucuktlis Lake Hucuktlis Lake (pronounced "who chook-tlis" ...

* Great Central Lake 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 ...

* Henry Lake *

Horne Lake Horne Lake is located west of Qualicum Beach. Named after Adam Grant Horne, Hudson's Bay Company storekeeper at Nanaimo, who made the first recorded sighting of this lake in 1856. References {{Authority control Alberni Valley Lakes of Va ...

Kammat Lake Kammat Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island at the head of Kammat Creek south of Cameron River. See also *List of lakes of British Columbia This is an incomplete list of lakes of British Columbia, a province of Canada. Larger lake stati ...

* 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 ...

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

Klitsa Mountain Klitsa Mountain is a prominent mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, located west of Beaver Creek and southeast of Golden Hinde. It can be viewed from Highway 4 along Sproat Lake. It is the second highest mountain in the Albe ...

Labour Day Lake Labour Day Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island at the head of the Cameron River. 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 ...

* Lacy Lake *

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Lowry Lake Lowry Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island north of Great Central Lake, west of Dickson Lake. Nearby lakes Ash, Turnbull and McLaughlin Lakes - Ash, Turnbull and McLaughlin Lakes are located nearby and accessed via either Highway 4(west), ...

* Long Lake *

McLaughlin Lake McLaughlin may refer to: * McLaughlin (surname), surname of Irish and Scottish origin Places Canada * Adelaide McLaughlin Public School, an elementary school in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada * McLaughlin Planetarium, a former working planetarium immedi ...

Maggie Lake Maggie is a common short form of the name Magdalena, Magnolia, Margaret. Maggie may refer to: People Women * Maggie Adamson, Scottish musician * Maggie Aderin-Pocock (born 1968), British scientist * Maggie Alderson (born 1959), Aust ...

Marshy Lake Marshy Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island south of western end of 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 ...

* Muriel Lake *

Nahmint Lake Nahmint Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island south of Sproat Lake, north east of Hucuktlis Lake Hucuktlis Lake (pronounced "who chook-tlis"), formerly Henderson Lake, is a lake on Vancouver Island that drains south into head of Uchuckles ...

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 ...

* Sproat Lake, named after Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, is a

in central

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

. * Tsable Lake * Toquart Lake * Turnbull Lake * Turtle Lake *

Uchuck Lake Uchuck Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island north west of head of Uchucklesit Inlet on the north side of lower Alberni Inlet. See also * List of lakes of British Columbia References Alberni Valley Lakes of Vancouver Island Clayoqu ...

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Stamp River Stamp or Stamps or Stamping may refer to: Official documents and related impressions * Postage stamp, used to indicate prepayment of fees for public mail * Ration stamp, indicating the right to rationed goods * Revenue stamp, used on documents to ...

Somass River Somass River is a river on Vancouver Island, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its drainage basin is in size. The river's name comes from a Nuu-chah-nulth word meaning "washing". Course The Stamp River and Sproat River join to form t ...

* Kennedy River *

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