Powell River

 

POWELL RIVER, city, pop 13,157 (2016), is located on the mainland coast 130 km north of VANCOUVER. (The population of the surrounding qathet REGIONAL DISTRICT is 20,070.) It is named for Israel Wood POWELL, who was superintendent of Indian Affairs when he visited the area aboard the Royal Navy vessel HMS Rocket. Loggers established camps in the area in the 1880s, eventually displacing the local Tla'amin people, and a PULP AND PAPER mill was constructed between 1910 and 1912 by the Brooks,...

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