Interior of British Columbia - David Thompson, Rocky Mountain Trench, Fraser River, Crowsnest Highway, Barnard's Express, Fraser Canyon (Paperback)


Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: David Thompson, Rocky Mountain Trench, Fraser River, Crowsnest Highway, Barnard's Express, Fraser Canyon, British Columbia Highway 5, Columbia River Treaty, British Columbia Interior, British Columbia Highway 97, Okanagan, Francis Jones Barnard, Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops, Peter Fidler, Peace River Country, Hope Slide, Kootenays, Interior Plateau, Thompson Country, Okanagan Basin Water Board, Intermontane Belt, Columbia Basin, Lillooet Country, Monashee Mountains, Canadian Intermountain Joint Venture, British Columbia Highway 6, British Columbia Highway 3A, List of filming locations in the British Columbia Interior, Big Bend Country, Columbia Basin Trust, Cariboo, List of historic ranches in British Columbia, British Columbia Highway 24, McDougall Lake, British Columbia Highway 5A, Shuswap Country, Columbia Country, British Columbia Highway 33, J. H. Sullivan, Columbia Power Corporation, Northern Wetbelt. Excerpt: The Rocky Mountain Trench, or the Trench or The Valley of a Thousand Peaks, is a large valley in the northern part of the Rocky Mountains. It is both visually and cartographically a striking physiographic feature extending approximately 1600 km (995 mi) from Flathead Lake, Montana, to the Liard River, just south of the British Columbia-Yukon border near Watson Lake, Yukon. The trench bottom is 3-to-16 km (2-10 miles) wide and ranges from 600-to-900 metres (2,000-3,000 feet) above sea level. The general orientation of the Trench is an almost uniform 150/330 degree geographic north vector which has also become convenient for north/south aviators. Although some of its topography has been carved into glacial valleys, it is primarily a by-product of faulting. The Trench separates the Rocky Mountains on its east from the Columbia Mountains and the Cassiar Mountains on its west. It also skirts part of the...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: David Thompson, Rocky Mountain Trench, Fraser River, Crowsnest Highway, Barnard's Express, Fraser Canyon, British Columbia Highway 5, Columbia River Treaty, British Columbia Interior, British Columbia Highway 97, Okanagan, Francis Jones Barnard, Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops, Peter Fidler, Peace River Country, Hope Slide, Kootenays, Interior Plateau, Thompson Country, Okanagan Basin Water Board, Intermontane Belt, Columbia Basin, Lillooet Country, Monashee Mountains, Canadian Intermountain Joint Venture, British Columbia Highway 6, British Columbia Highway 3A, List of filming locations in the British Columbia Interior, Big Bend Country, Columbia Basin Trust, Cariboo, List of historic ranches in British Columbia, British Columbia Highway 24, McDougall Lake, British Columbia Highway 5A, Shuswap Country, Columbia Country, British Columbia Highway 33, J. H. Sullivan, Columbia Power Corporation, Northern Wetbelt. Excerpt: The Rocky Mountain Trench, or the Trench or The Valley of a Thousand Peaks, is a large valley in the northern part of the Rocky Mountains. It is both visually and cartographically a striking physiographic feature extending approximately 1600 km (995 mi) from Flathead Lake, Montana, to the Liard River, just south of the British Columbia-Yukon border near Watson Lake, Yukon. The trench bottom is 3-to-16 km (2-10 miles) wide and ranges from 600-to-900 metres (2,000-3,000 feet) above sea level. The general orientation of the Trench is an almost uniform 150/330 degree geographic north vector which has also become convenient for north/south aviators. Although some of its topography has been carved into glacial valleys, it is primarily a by-product of faulting. The Trench separates the Rocky Mountains on its east from the Columbia Mountains and the Cassiar Mountains on its west. It also skirts part of the...

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August 2011

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46

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978-1-156-50559-5

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