Rivers Inlet Oceanfront Acreage for sale: (Listed 2010-11-18)

10491

$199,000

District Lot 19, Range 02, Coast Range 2 Land District
PID 009-899-561

$1,318.55 (2010)

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122 acres in Charcoal Bay in Rivers Inlet. One of BC’s premier salmon fishing territories on the entire coast. Secluded bay, fresh water, stream through property may be capable of power generation.

Charcoal Bay is in Rivers Inlet in the Central Coast of British Columbia.

Access is by boat or float plane, flights are available from Port Hardy or Vancouver.

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RIVERS INLET: reaches 30 miles into the Coast Mountains. The main channel averages a depth of 1050 feet, while lushly forested mountains sweep up steeply from the shores. It is an important fishing area, with its peak fishing for sockeye salmon during July. Sports fishermen arrive by seaplane to a number of fishing lodges to fish for huge Chinook and Coho salmon.

Fishing, beachcombing, boating, diving, crabbing, exploring rugged historical inlets, bird watching.

Rivers Inlet was named by Captain George Vancouver for George Pitt, First Baron Rivers. After the Fraser and Skeena Rivers, Rivers Inlet has the third largest run of salmon in BC. This potential was quickly exploited in the boom of cannery construction in the 1880’s. The first cannery was the Rivers Inlet Cannery, built by Shotbolt Hart and Co., at the mouth of Wannock River. One of the partners was Robert Draney, who later built the Namu cannery. Seventeen more canneries followed over the years, though they did not all operate at the same time. Rivers Inlet became like an extended community, with loggers, trappers, and a few fishermen and cannery watchmen living there through the winter. In the summer it became a hive of activity as everyone worked toward the goal of canning salmon.