MQN - Expositie Palimpsest #57 - Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park
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Tweedsmuir Provincial Park – South is one of the largest of B.C.’s several hundred parks. Located in the west-central region of the province, 480 km northwest of Vancouver as the crow flies, Tweedsmuir is roughly triangular in shape. It is bounded on the north and northwest by the Ootsa-Whitesail Lakes reservoir, on the west and southwest by the Coast Mountains, and on the east by the Interior Plateau.
Aside from offering some of the most spectacular scenery in North America, Tweedsmuir is a magnet for outdoor recreationists.
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This area has been used for thousands of years by the Nuxalk (Bella Coola) people of the coast and the Tsihquot'in people of the interior, who have depended on the abundant salmon in its rivers. Historic trails, which were once used by explorers and surveyors to transport fur and gold to the Pacific, now form the basis of the park's network of hiking and horse-packing routes. The most famous trail is the Alexander Mackenzie Trail, used by Mackenzie as he passed through this area in 1793, en route in his historic journey to be the first European to reach the Pacific overland.
Tweedsmuir Park was established May 21, 1938. The park was named after the 15th Governor General of Canada, John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield. The Governor General travelled extensively throughout the park in the early 1900's and in the foreword to his book he wrote "I have now travelled over most of Canada and have seen many wonderful things, but I have seen nothing more beautiful and more wonderful than the great park which British Columbia has done me the honor to call by my name."
MQN - Expositie Palimpsest #57 - Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park
bcparks.ca/explore/parkpgs/tweeds_s/
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Tweedsmuir Provincial Park – South is one of the largest of B.C.’s several hundred parks. Located in the west-central region of the province, 480 km northwest of Vancouver as the crow flies, Tweedsmuir is roughly triangular in shape. It is bounded on the north and northwest by the Ootsa-Whitesail Lakes reservoir, on the west and southwest by the Coast Mountains, and on the east by the Interior Plateau.
Aside from offering some of the most spectacular scenery in North America, Tweedsmuir is a magnet for outdoor recreationists.
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This area has been used for thousands of years by the Nuxalk (Bella Coola) people of the coast and the Tsihquot'in people of the interior, who have depended on the abundant salmon in its rivers. Historic trails, which were once used by explorers and surveyors to transport fur and gold to the Pacific, now form the basis of the park's network of hiking and horse-packing routes. The most famous trail is the Alexander Mackenzie Trail, used by Mackenzie as he passed through this area in 1793, en route in his historic journey to be the first European to reach the Pacific overland.
Tweedsmuir Park was established May 21, 1938. The park was named after the 15th Governor General of Canada, John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield. The Governor General travelled extensively throughout the park in the early 1900's and in the foreword to his book he wrote "I have now travelled over most of Canada and have seen many wonderful things, but I have seen nothing more beautiful and more wonderful than the great park which British Columbia has done me the honor to call by my name."