Boat Encampment is a ghost town in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The locality was at the tip of the Big Bend on the north shore of the Columbia River.[1] The general vicinity, on the former Big Bend Highway, was by road about 151 kilometres (94 mi) northwest of Golden and 159 kilometres (99 mi) north of Revelstoke.[2]
^"Boat Encampment (community)". BC Geographical Names.
BoatEncampment is a ghost town in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The locality was at the tip of the Big Bend on the north...
Lake, at the now-deserted location of the onetime fur company post, BoatEncampment. The range is bounded on its west, northeast and at its northern extremity...
Country, a subregion of the Columbia Country. Among these towns were BoatEncampment and Beavermouth. List of lakes of British Columbia Columbia River Treaty...
Columbia boat in 1811, when he crossed the Rocky Mountains via Athabasca pass. At the spot on the Columbia River known thereafter as BoatEncampment, Thompson...
up the Athabasca to Jasper House and thence over Athabasca Pass to BoatEncampment on the Columbia. The route was used for messages and light freight...
Athabasca Pass for the first time and reached the Columbia River at BoatEncampment. Athabasca Pass was clearly superior and attempts to reach the Columbia...
fur trade days it connected Jasper House on the Athabasca River with BoatEncampment on the Columbia River. The pass lies between Mount Brown and McGillivray...
a canoe brigade up the Columbia River and arrived on October 10 at BoatEncampment. The party had to wait for three weeks until a badly delayed horse...
passage up the Columbia to the BoatEncampment, the Brigade had a spell and a smoke at this place. I recollect the boats were right under a high & perpendicular...
past the posts of Fort Nez Perces, Fort Okanogan, and Fort Colvile to BoatEncampment (today under Kinbasket Lake). It then followed the Wood River and its...
landed at the confluence of the Canoe River at what became known as BoatEncampment, near the most northerly point of the bend. This site became a long-established...
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Valley Forge National Historical Park is the site of the third winter encampment of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War from December...
a party of seven Nor'westers was sent back to Spokane House [from BoatEncampment] because they were too ill to traverse the Rocky Mountains with the...
district is the northernmost part of the Columbia's basin, north of BoatEncampment and Mica Creek, northwest of which is the Cariboo Land District. To...
Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 23 October 2011. BoatEncampment. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 23 October 2011. Britannia...
The dramatic performance is presented on the first night of the annual encampment as an allegorical banishing of worldly cares for the club members and...
soldiers attacked the encampment containing the hostages while the soldiers from The Parachute Regiment attacked a second encampment. In December 2004, it...
reported a First Nations account of coarse gold some miles above the BoatEncampment. However, the actual first "strike" by Europeans is unclear. That year...
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