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The Alberni Valley has a museum [44] and many ancillary attractions, including Sproat Lake, which is located just outside Port Alberni. The world's largest aerial firefighting flying boats, the Martin Mars Water Bombers, once made their home on nearby Sproat Lake .
Port Alberni BC 49°14′04″N 124°48′18″W / 49.2344°N 124.805°W / 49.2344; -124.805 ( Port Alberni City Port Alberni municipality ( 18427 )
The 52-hectare park, west of Port Alberni, is accessible by water or private logging road. It has few services, but has a 30-minute hiking trail to an old homestead site. [1] The homestead belonged to Helen and Armour Ford, who donated the land for the park to the province in 1974.
Alberni Canal at China Creek Alberni Inlet is a long, narrow inlet in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, that stretches from the Pacific Ocean at Barkley Sound about 40 kilometres (25 mi) inland terminating at Port Alberni. Barkley Sound; Della Falls Della Falls is a waterfall in Strathcona Provincial Park on Vancouver Island. It is ...
The Alberni Valley Heritage Network in Port Alberni, British Columbia consists of the Alberni Valley Museum (First Nations culture, local and industrial history and folk art), the McLean Mill National Historic Site (a historic steam-operated sawmill), the Alberni Pacific Railway (a steam-powered heritage railway), and the Maritime Discovery Centre.
Home of the last Martin Mars type waterbombers, and near Port Alberni, Sproat Lake is a popular summer recreational area for the Alberni Valley. Highway 4 runs along its north shore. [2] The lake maintains a small wintering population of Marbled Murrelets which also nest in the area, the only freshwater alcids on Earth. [citation needed]