Elkford
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Elkford | |
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District municipality | |
| District of Elkford[1] | |
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| Country | Canada |
| Province | British Columbia |
| Regional district | East Kootenay |
| Incorporated | 1971 |
| Government | |
| • Governing body | Elkford Council |
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| Time zone | UTC-7 (MST) |
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| Template:Pluralize from text | 250 / 778 / 236: 250-865 778-521Template:Pluralize from text |
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| Website | www |
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Elkford is a district municipality in the southeast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia in the Rocky Mountain range. It is 32 km (20 mi) north of the junction at Sparwood, on provincial Highway 43. Outdoor recreational activities take place in Elkford throughout the year. Elkford hosts an annual festival called Wildcat Days during the last weekend of June.
The town and area have many kilometres of horse riding, hiking, snowmobiling and cross country ski trails, and a ski hill, Wapiti, run by Elkford resident volunteers. The Elkford Aquatic Centre has a competition-size pool, hot tub and sauna.
There are two public schools Rocky Mountain Elementary School and Elkford Secondary School with a combined student population of 400 in January 2006.
There are five open-pit coal mines within an hour's drive of Elkford: Fording River Operations (FRO), Greenhills Operations (GHO), Line Creek Operations (LCO), Elkview Operations (EVO) and Coal Mountain Operations (CMO). All mines belong to Elk Valley Resources. Elkford was created due to mining activity, in the early 1970s. Many Elkford residents work for the mines or as contractors; other residents work in service industries directly related to the mines. The Fording River Operations (FRO) mine is located on the Continental Divide of the Americas, known as the Great Divide.
A coal seam close to Aldridge Creek, north of Elkford, has been burning for decades and is known to residents of the area as "The Burning Coal Seam."[2] The fire started in 1936 when a forest fire ignited an old prospect opening south of Aldridge Creek. In 1975 and 1976, Fording Coal Ltd. removed coal from the seam in advance of the fire in an attempt to extinguish it - this did not work.[3] A study monitoring the fire for 3 years, published in 1985, determined that the fire front was at that time advancing about 13.5m/year and that the zone of combustion, carbonization, and gasification extended to a depth of 20m below the ground surface, among other observations.[4] The seam was assessed in 1988 using reflected light microscopy to determine the extent of transformation of the coal into coke.[5] As of August 2016, locals and campers in the area reported the seam was still burning.[6]
Climate
Fording River weather station, near Elkford, has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc).
Demographics
In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada, Elkford had a population of 2,749 living in 1,159 of its 1,602 total private dwellings, a change of Script error: No such module "Percentage". from its 2016 population of 2,499. With a land area of Template:Cvt, it had a population density of Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Sortkey' not found. in 2021.[8]
Religion
According to the 2021 census, religious groups in Elkford included:[9]
- Irreligion (1,530 persons or 55.7%)
- Christianity (1,195 persons or 43.5%)
- Buddhism (10 persons or 0.4%)
- Other (10 persons or 0.4%)
Local media
Radio stations
- 99.1 FM - CJDR, Classic Rock
- 92.7 FM - CFBZ, Country
- 97.7 FM - CBTN, CBC Radio
- 106.9 FM - CJAY, Rock
- 90.1 FM - ..., Hip-hop/Hits
- 93.5 FM rock
- 92.9 FM rock
- 107.9 FM summit 107
Cable television stations
In popular culture
Elkford is the setting of Braceface, an animated children's television series that aired in the early 2000s.
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."British Columbia Regional Districts, Municipalities, Corporate Name, Date of Incorporation and Postal Address" (XLS). British Columbia Ministry of Communities, Sport and Cultural Development. Archived from the original on July 13, 2014. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ Elkford Chamber of Commerce
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.K.A. Komenac. Fording Coal Limited Fording River Operations Summary Report 1979 Work on Crown Grant Lots 6825E½ & 6824W½ (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 5 February 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bustin, R. M.; Mathews, W. H. (Dec 1985). "In situ gasification of coal, a natural example: additional data on the Aldridge Creek coal fire, southeastern British Columbia". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 22 (12): 1858–1864. Retrieved 5 February 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Goodarzi, Fariborz; Gentzis, Thomas; Bustin, R. Marc (September 1988). "Reflectance and petrology profile of a partially combusted and coked bituminous coal seam from British Columbia". Fuel. 67 (9): 1218–1222. doi:10.1016/0016-2361(88)90041-5.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.ferniesnow (August 3, 2016). "Coal creek camping [Post 2297809]" (Forum post). snowandmud.com. Retrieved 5 February 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fording River Cominco, BC". Canadian Climate Normals 1981–2010 (in English and French). Environment Canada. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), British Columbia". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2022-10-26). "Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
External links
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