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The Nechako region extends from the geographical center of British Columbia (near Prince George) to the border of the Yukon. The Nechako Region has thousands of lakes. It also has many bears, caribou, and moose, making a great breeding centre. Nechako is located on the northern side of British Columbia. It is at the basin of the Nechako River.
Quesnel (/ k w ɪ ˈ n ɛ l /; Kee-nel in French) is a city located in the Cariboo Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. Located nearly evenly between the cities of Prince George and Williams Lake, it is on the main route to northern British Columbia and the Yukon. Quesnel is located at the confluence of the Fraser River and Quesnel River.
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Cariboo Regional District had a population of 62,931 living in 27,614 of its 32,395 total private dwellings, a change of 1.5% from its 2016 population of 61,988.
A recreational community in British Columbia is an "unincorporated place with seasonal or year-round services, accommodation and amenities associated primarily with recreational or leisure activities". [5] British Columbia has 11 communities that are classified as recreational communities. [1]
Ten Mile Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Cariboo Land District of British Columbia, Canada, ten miles (16 km) north of the city of Quesnel. [1] The park is situated within the Fraser Plateau and Basin complex, in a transition area between the wetter Quesnel Highland to the east, and the dry Chilcotin Plateau to the west. [2]
The Quesnel Highland is a geographic area in the Central Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia. [1] As defined by BC government geographer in Landforms of British Columbia, an account and analysis of British Columbia geography that is often cited as authoritative, the Highland is a complex of upland hill and plateau areas forming and defined as being the buffer between the ...
Baker Creek is a community located in British Columbia, Canada, west of Quesnel along the Nazko highway, at the south end of Puntataenkut Lake. [1] People in the community enjoy many outdoor activities such as fishing, hunting, boating, camping, and riding horses, ATVs and snowmobiles .
Jules-Maurice Quesnel (1786–1842), Canadian fur-trader and politician; Pasquier Quesnel (1634–1719), French Jansenist theologian; Peter Quesnel (or Quesuel) (d. 1299?), Franciscan; Pierre Quesnel (1502–1580), 16th-century French artist, worked in Scotland; Pooky Quesnel (born 1966), English actress; Yannick Quesnel (born 1973), French ...