 Looking east across the Bulkley Valley from the top of the Hudson Bay Mountain Ski Area. The town of Smithers is visible in the lower right.
 Provincial Government Map, 1923. Cropped to show Bulkley Valley. The Bulkley Valley is located in west central British Columbia, Canada. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 531 pixel Image in higher resolution (1544 × 1024 pixel, file size: 311 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bulkley Valley Metadata...
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Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 586 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (900 × 921 pixel, file size: 570 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) 1923 Provincial Government Map. ...
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Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 36 6 Area Total - Land - Water (% of total) Ranked 5th 944,735 km² 925,186 km² 19,549 km...
Geography
The 257 km long Bulkley River runs through the valley which is bounded on the west by the Hudson Bay Mountain range and on the east by the Babine Mountains. The northern boundary of the valley is usually considered the Bulkey's confluence with the Skeena River at Hazelton, although it is sometimes placed further south near Moricetown. The valley's southern edge is at Bulkley Lake, part way between Houston and Burns Lake.
The Bulkley, a smaller stream running through Houston and the Morice join just west of Houston. At the point of their joining they become the Bulkley, not the Morice despite the fact the Morice is larger. This was done by Poudrier, a government cartographer whom, it is rumoured, never saw the region. The Bulkley River in British Columbia is a major tributary of the Skeena River. ...
The Skeena River is on the north coast of British Columbia, passing through Terrace. ...
The Bulkley River (left) flowing into the Skeena River (right) near Ksan Ksan Historical Village // Hazelton is a small town located at the junction of the Bulkley and Skeena Rivers in northern British Columbia, Canada. ...
Moricetown is a Wetsuweten village in Central British Columbia, Canada. ...
Houston (, )is a forestry, mining and tourism town in the north of British Columbia, Canada. ...
Burns Lake is a small rural village, incorporated in 1923, and situated at approximately the geographical centre of the province of British Columbia. ...
History
 Bulkley Valley. Confluence of the Telkwa and Bulkley Rivers, 1909 The Wet'suwet'en people have called the valley home for thousands of years. With the neighbouring Gitxsan, they had their Aboriginal title in the area affirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada with its Delgamuukw decision of 1997. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Wetsuweten (also known as Hwotsotenne, Witsuwiten, Wetsuweten, Wetsuweten) are an Athabascan-speaking people, on Bulkley River and around Francois Lake, Babine Lake, and Takla Lake, in Northwestern British Columbia. ...
Gitksan is a First Nations language of northwestern British Columbia. ...
The Supreme Court of Canada (French: Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeal in the Canadian justice system. ...
Court membership Chief Justice: Antonio Lamer Puisne Justices: Gérard La Forest, Claire LHeureux-Dubé, John Sopinka, Charles Gonthier, Peter Cory, Beverley McLachlin, Frank Iacobucci, John C. Major Reasons given Majority by: Lamer C.J. Joined by: Cory and Major J. Concurrence/dissent by: McLachlin J. Concurrence/dissent by...
The valley is named for the river, which is after American Engineer Charles Bulkley, who oversaw the construction of the telegraph line through the area in the 1860s.[1] The Grand Trunk Railway was constructed through the valley by 1914, and development hastened thereafter.
Today, British Columbia provincial highway 16 traverses the entire valley.
The Russian American Telegraph was an undertaking by the Western Union Telegraph Company. ...
1885 map The Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) was a historic railway system which operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, as well as the American states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. ...
British Columbia provincial highway 16 is the B.C. section of the Yellowhead Highway. ...
Economy Ranching began in the valley around the turn of the 20th century, but has been surpassed in economic importance by the forest industry and more recently, tourism. There has also been mining activities in the valley.
Communities The main communities in the Bulkley Valley (South to North): Other settler communities (past and present) include: South Bulkley, Topley, Walcott, Perow, Quick, Tatlow and Evelyn Houston (, )is a forestry, mining and tourism town in the north of British Columbia, Canada. ...
The village of Telkwa is located along Highway 16, nearly 15 km southeast from the town of Smithers and 350 km west of the city of Prince George, in northwest British Columbia. ...
Smithers is a town located in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, approximately halfway between Prince George and Prince Rupert. ...
Moricetown is a Wetsuweten village in Central British Columbia, Canada. ...
See Also - Skeena-Bulkley Valley Federal Electoral District
- Bulkey Valley-Stikine Provincial Electoral District
Skeena—Bulkley Valley is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. ...
Bulkley Valley-Stikine is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. ...
References - ^ "Bulkey River". Encyclopedia of British Columbia. Harbour Publishing. 2000
External Links - Bulkley Valley Centre for Natural Resources Research and Management
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