geo.wikisort.org - SeaGalena Bay is an unincorporated locality, on the bay of the same name, at the head of Upper Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.
- Not the Galena Bay on Kootenay Lake at Riondel
Place in British Columbia, Canada
Galena Bay |
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Location of Galena Bay in British Columbia |
Coordinates: 50°40′00″N 117°51′00″W |
Country | Canada |
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Province | British Columbia |
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Area code(s) | 250, 778 |
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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 galena mining occurred in this area. In 1897, a townsite called Rosenheim was cleared, and a hotel built, for a planned railway linking with Camborne and Trout Lake, but the project evaporated within a year. Galena Bay remained the name of the neighbourhood.[1]
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 British Columbia Highway 23 from Nakusp to Revelstoke. Galena Bay is also the terminus of British Columbia Highway 31, which runs northeast, then southeast via Trout Lake and Lardeau and then south down the west side of the north arm of Kootenay Lake to Balfour, near Nelson.
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Steamboats of the Arrow Lakes |
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Steamboats and tugs |
- Forty-Nine (1865)
- Kootenai (1885)
- Dispatch / Despatch (1888)
- Marion (1890)
- Lytton (1890)
- Columbia (1891 sternwheeler)
- Illecillewaet (1892)
- Nakusp (1895)
- Trail (1890)
- Columbia (1896 tug)
- Kootenay (1897)
- Rossland (1897)
- Minto (1898)
- Whatshan (1909)
- Bonnington (1911)
- Nipigonian (1929)
- Widget (1948)
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Landings (south to north) | |
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Steamboat lines |
- Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company
- Canadian Pacific Railway Lake and River Service
- Interior Tug & Transport Company
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Geographic features | |
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Owners, captains and personnel |
- James W. Troup
- Gustavus Blin-Wright
- J.A. Mara
- Frank Barnard Jr.
- Selby Soules
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Modern ferry lines |
- BC Ministry of Transportation (Department of Highways)
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Railway connections |
- Columbia and Kootenay Railway
- Nakusp and Slocan Railway
- Canadian Pacific Railway (mainline)
- Kettle Valley Railway
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British Columbia steamboats |
- Upper Fraser, Nechako and Stuart Rivers
- Skeena River
- Arrow Lakes and Columbia River
- Slocan Lake
- Kootenay Lake
- Columbia Lake-East Kootenay
- Lakes Route (Seton, Anderson and Lillooet Lakes)
- Lake Okanagan
- Skaha Lake
- Thompson-Shuswap
- Stikine River
- Peace & Finlay Rivers
- Inside Passage
- Gulf of Georgia-Lower Fraser
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Pacific Northwest steamboats |
- Columbia River
- Oregon Coast
- Willamette River
- Yaquina Bay and River
- Coquille River
- Cowlitz River
- Puget Sound
- Lake Washington
- Grays Harbor
- Chehalis River
- Hoquiam River
- Willapa Bay
- Columbia River (Wenatchee Reach)
- Lake Crescent
- Lower Kootenai River
- Upper Kootenai River
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