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Canoe River (British Columbia)

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218:, and flows east to the vicinity of Valemount, then southeast to join the Columbia River at the "Big Bend" of the Columbia, just upriver from Mica Dam. The reservoir created by Mica Dam, Kinbasket Lake, extends up the Canoe River nearly to Valemount. This impounded portion of the river is called the Canoe Reach of Kinbasket Lake. Although originally the mouth of the Canoe River was at the Big Bend of the Columbia, today it is said to be at the northern end of Canoe Reach. 296: 31: 221:
The main tributaries of Canoe River and Canoe Reach include Camp Creek, Packsaddle Creek, Dave Henry Creek, Yellowjacket Creek, Bulldog Creek, Ptarmigan Creek, Hugh Allan Creek, Grouse Creek, Windfall Creek, Howard Creek, Foster Creek (flows into Foster Arm), Dawson Creek, and, right at Big Bend,
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Map of the Columbia drainage Basin with the Columbia River highlighted and showing the major tributaries. The Canoe River, its northernmost tributary, joins the Columbia at the Big Bend where the river turns
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near the river's mouth in 1811. From the early 1820s until 1846, the Canoe River was a well-travelled section of the
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Map of the route of the York Factory Express, 1820s to 1840s. Modern political boundaries shown.
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Most of Canoe River, in the form of Canoe Reach, occupies the
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Search for Station 08NC004 Canoe River below Kimmel Creek
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Index


Cariboo Land District
Mouth
tributary
Columbia River
British Columbia
Canada
Mica Dam
Kinbasket Lake
Cariboo Mountains
Valemount, British Columbia
Rocky Mountain Trench
Fraser River
McLennan River
North Thompson River
David Thompson
Boat Encampment
York Factory Express
London
Hudson Bay
Columbia District
Fort Vancouver
Columbia River
a rail crash
Valemount, British Columbia

List of rivers of British Columbia
List of tributaries of the Columbia River

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