Rivers Inlet
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Infobox body of water tracking".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Rivers Inlet[1] is a fjord in the Central Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, its entrance off Fitz Hugh Sound, about Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of the community of Bella Coola and about Script error: No such module "convert". north of the northern tip of Vancouver Island and the western entrance of the Queen Charlotte Strait.
Rivers Inlet was a major fishing area with huge salmon runs. At one time it had the second largest sockeye salmon run only to the Fraser River. A total of 19 Canneries were built in the area starting late in the 1890's. Three canneries remained as they dotted the shorelines until their closure by consolidation through the monopoly of companies, and the consolidation around large centralized ice plants in the 1950s.
Name origin
Rivers Inlet was named by George Vancouver for George Pitt the 1st Baron Rivers (1721-1803).[2] Two of his men, Peter Puget and Joseph Whidbey, first charted it in 1792.[3]
Geography
Script error: No such module "labelled list hatnote". The inlet is about Script error: No such module "convert". in length from its head at the community of Rivers Inlet, which was a logging and fishing town that was also the home of the Wuikinuxv and their government, the Wuikinuxv Nation, also known variously as the Owekeeno, Awikenox, Oowekeeno and also as the Rivers Inlet people. The main rivers feeding Rivers Inlet are the Kilbella River and its tributary, the Chuckwalla River, and the Script error: No such module "convert". Wannock River, which feeds the head of Rivers Inlet and was fed by the fresh-water fjord Owikeno Lake, Script error: No such module "convert". in length, and which was fed by the Tzeo, Sheemahant and Machmell Rivers. The Machmell, the largest, was fed from the northern flank of the Ha-Iltzuk Icefield, one of the largest of the southern Coast Mountains icecaps, and which was capped by the Silverthrone Caldera.
About Script error: No such module "convert". down the inlet, west from the town and the head of the inlet, is the mouth of a Script error: No such module "convert". side-inlet from the north, Moses Inlet, which is fed by the Clyak River and which itself has a western side-inlet named Hardy Inlet, Script error: No such module "convert". in length.
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