Campbell River
| Campbell River | |||
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 View of Campbell River from the ocean side |
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| Location in British Columbia | |||
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| Province : | British Columbia | ||
| Regional District : | Strathcona | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 2 ′ N , 125 ° 15 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 24 m | ||
| Area : | 144.36 km² | ||
| Residents : | 32,588 (as of 2016) | ||
| Population density : | 225.7 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Pacific Time ( UTC − 8 ) | ||
| Postal code : | V9H, V9W | ||
| Mayor : | Walter Jakeway | ||
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Campbell River is a city in British Columbia , Canada at the mouth of the river of the same name at the southern end of the Discovery Passage and the north side of Vancouver Island . Campbell River is also known as the “Salmon Capital”.
history
The first residents of the area were First Nation from the Kwakwaka'wakw tribe .
In 1792, Captain George Vancouver was the first European to reach today's Campbell River with his ships HMS Discovery and HMS Chatham . Vancouver and its botanist Archibald Menzies met a small Indian tribe of about 350 people who spoke a Salish dialect. When the HMS Plumper under Captain George Henry Richards captured Campbell River in 1859 on a mapping trip, they faced a Kwakwaka'wakw war troop who had brought the area under his rule with European rifles. Dr. Samuel Campbell was the Plumper 's ship's doctor and it is believed that he gave the place its name. Another geographical feature, the nearby Cape Mudge , was named after the ship's lieutenant, Zachary Mudge .
Sport anglers began searching the area as early as the 1880s, spurred on by reports from anglers Sir Richard Musgrave and Sir John Rogers. The Campbell River Tyee Club was founded in 1924 with the aim of preventing overfishing of the salmon stocks. In addition to hobby fishing, commercial fishing remained an important economic factor for many years.
Commercial logging took on industrial proportions in the 1920s with forest companies Merrill Ring & Company, Bloedel, Stewart & Welch, and Comox. A large forest fire that broke out near Buttle Lake in 1938 destroyed around 300 km² of forest and thus large parts of the valley. The current neighborhoods of Campbell River, Rock Bay, Menzies Bay, and Englewood were all logging camps at the time.
Campbell River became an important supply center for northern Vancouver Island , Quadra Island and Cortes Island as early as 1912 . The Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway, which is important for the infrastructure, was planned as far as Campbell River, but was only completed as far as Courtenay . The construction of the Elk River pulp mill and other paper mills in nearby Tahsis and Gold Rivers encouraged logging. There was also a lead and zinc mine, coal mines and a large copper mine.
On June 23, 1946, the community was shaken by the earthquake on Vancouver Island , which with a magnitude of 7.3 was the strongest reliably measured earthquake on the island to date. It had its epicenter on the Forbidden Plateau , about 40 km south-southeast of Campbell River.
Demographics
The census in 2016 showed a population of 32,588 inhabitants for the municipality, after the census in 2011 still showed a population of 31,186 inhabitants for the municipality. The population has increased by 4.5% compared to the last census in 2011 and is therefore close to the provincial average with a population increase in British Columbia of 5.6%. In the census period from 2006 to 2011, the population in the municipality increased by 5.5%, below average, while the provincial average increased by 7.0%.
For the 2016 census, a median age of 46.5 years was determined for the municipality . The median age of the province in 2016 was only 43.0 years. The median age was 44.0 years or 42.3 years in the province. For the 2011 census, a median age of 45.3 years was determined for the municipality. The median age of the province in 2011 was only 41.9 years.
climate
Campbell River has a mostly mild climate, with temperatures typically ranging from 0 ° C in winter to 32 ° C in midsummer. Most of the precipitation is usually measured in November, with an average of 218.0 mm. While most of the snow falls in January with an average of 152 mm, only 10 mm of it actually remains. In winter, only one or the other arctic winter storm from mainland Canada brings temperatures below zero. When a Pacific depression hits the east coast of Vancouver Island, heavy snowfall can set in. Snow depths of over 45 cm could be measured within 24 hours and the highest recorded snow depth was 53.3 cm in 1978.
economy
A large part of the population of Campbell River is employed in forestry , mining , fishing and the tourism industry. Many Canadians are familiar with the city, in addition to Port Alberni , as the “salmon capital”. Because of this, Campbell River is a popular destination for anglers .
The construction of the Elk Falls hydropower plant by the BC Power Corporation, later renamed "John Hart Generating Station", in 1948 and the paper and pulp mill attached to it in 1952, significantly improved the economic situation in Campbell River.
There have been plans for a long time to open a cruise ship dock in Campbell River, as ships sail through the much-used Discovery Passage every day, but so far without a stop in Campbell River. The Canadian federal government made a total of 13.23 million Canadian dollars available for the implementation in 2003 and 2004. The benefit of this investor would be not only in the 150 full-time jobs that it creates, but also in the increasing tourist importance of Campbell River. Construction has already started and is expected to be completed in spring 2007.
traffic
Campbell River is connected by Highway 19 to other cities on Vancouver Island, such as Courtenay , Port Hardy, and Gold River . In addition, Highway 28 to Gold River begins in Campbell River .
The city is accessible by air through Campbell River Airport ( IATA Airport Code : YBL, ICAO Code : CYBL) and Campbell River Harbor Seaplane Airport (IATA: YHH, Transport Canada Identifier: CAC8). From Campbell River Airport, Pacific Coastal Airlines , among others, offers a daily scheduled service to Vancouver .
A BC Ferries ferry runs from here to the opposite Quadra Island (via Quathiaski Cove ), one of the Discovery Islands .
sons and daughters of the town
- Lisle Ellis (* 1951), jazz bassist and composer
- Barry Pepper (born 1970), actor
- Daryl Andrews (born 1977), ice hockey player
- Carsen Germyn (* 1982), ice hockey player
- Iris Graham (born 1985), actress
- Cameron Levins (* 1989), long-distance runner
- Brett Connolly (born 1992), ice hockey player
City partnerships
Trivia
Campbell River is near Seymour Narrows , the site of one of the largest non-nuclear human-hand explosions . In 1958, miners dug for 28 months in order to plant explosives and to clear "one of the world's most devious stretches of waterway" (Captain George Vancouver), an underwater rock called Ripple Rock.
Some of the films made near Campbell River:
Web links
- Campbell River ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
- Site of the City of Campbell River
Individual evidence
- ↑ The fishing enthusiast EP Painter moved to Campbell River in 1925 and opened his Painter's Lodge in 1929. Meanwhile, Roderick Haig-Brown bought a fishing lodge in Campbell River and wrote several influential books on fly fishing .
- ↑ The M7.3 Vancouver Island Earthquake of 1946. Natural Resources Canada , March 11, 2019, accessed August 25, 2020 .
- ^ Campbell River Community Profile. Census 2016. In: Statistics Canada . January 23, 2017, accessed September 15, 2018 .
- ^ Campbell River Community Profile. Census 2011. In: Statistics Canada . May 31, 2016, accessed September 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Environment Canada, National Climate Archive (English)
- ↑ CBC Archives - BC's deadly Ripple Rock blown up (English)
- ↑ imdb.com Power Search → Filming Location Campbell River (English)