Rivers Inlet
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| Location | British Columbia, Canada |
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| Type | Fjord |
Ocean/sea sources | Pacific Ocean |
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Rivers Inlet[1] is a fjord in the Central Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, its entrance off Fitz Hugh Sound, about 125 km (78 mi) southwest of the community of Bella Coola and about 65 km (40 mi) north of the northern tip of Vancouver Island and the western entrance of the Queen Charlotte Strait.
Rivers Inlet was a major fishing area with huge salmon runs. At one time it had the second largest sockeye salmon run only to the Fraser River. A total of 19 Canneries were built in the area starting late in the 1890s. Three canneries remained as they dotted the shorelines until their closure by consolidation through the monopoly of companies, and the consolidation around large centralized ice plants in the 1950s.
Name origin
Rivers Inlet was named by George Vancouver for George Pitt the 1st Baron Rivers (1721–1803).[2] Two of his men, Peter Puget and Joseph Whidbey, first charted it in 1792.[3]
Geography
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About 15 km (9.3 mi) down the inlet, west from the town and the head of the inlet, is the mouth of a 30 km (19 mi) side-inlet from the north, Moses Inlet, which is fed by the Clyak River and which itself has a western side-inlet named Hardy Inlet, 15 km (9.3 mi) in length.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vancouver, George, and John Vancouver (1801). A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean, and round the world. London: J. Stockdale.
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