• Boat Encampment is a ghost town in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The locality was at the tip of the Big Bend on the north...
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    Country, a subregion of the Columbia Country. Among these towns were Boat Encampment and Beavermouth. List of lakes of British Columbia Columbia River Treaty...
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    Lake, at the now-deserted location of the onetime fur company post, Boat Encampment. The range is bounded on its west, northeast and at its northern extremity...
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  • Columbia boat in 1811, when he crossed the Rocky Mountains via Athabasca pass. At the spot on the Columbia River known thereafter as Boat Encampment, Thompson...
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  • mountains was from Jasper House on the Athabasca River 120 miles west to Boat Encampment on the Columbia River. To save time one could take a light (non-freight)...
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  • 076117°N 118.566404°W / 52.076117; -118.566404 Boat Encampment ferry Boat Encampment Boat Encampment bridge Big Bend Highway Rail bridge Canadian Pacific...
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    fur trade days it connected Jasper House on the Athabasca River with Boat Encampment on the Columbia River. The pass lies between Mount Brown and McGillivray...
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    Athabasca Pass for the first time and reached the Columbia River at Boat Encampment. Athabasca Pass was clearly superior and attempts to reach the Columbia...
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    passage up the Columbia to the Boat Encampment, the Brigade had a spell and a smoke at this place. I recollect the boats were right under a high & perpendicular...
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  • landed at the confluence of the Canoe River at what became known as Boat Encampment, near the most northerly point of the bend. This site became a long-established...
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