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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 )
MacMillan Provincial Park is a 301-hectare (740-acre) provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.Located 25 km (16 mi) west of Qualicum Beach and 16 km (9.9 mi) east of Port Alberni, the park straddles Highway 4 and the Island Rail Corridor in central Vancouver Island.
Alberni Valley Heritage Network National Historic Site of Canada McLean Mill National Historic Site is a steam-operated sawmill on Vancouver Island , officially open to tourists since July 1, 2000.
Port Alberni (/ æ l ˈ b ɜːr n i /) is a city located on Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The city lies within the Alberni Valley at the head of the Alberni Inlet, Vancouver Island's longest inlet. Port Alberni currently has a total population of 18,259.
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]
By the late 1910s, Kildonan was a port of call on the three times monthly Victoria–Port Alice Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) coastal steamboat run, [28] which remained largely unchanged until the early 1950s. [29] From the 1930s, the summer schedule was every 5 days. [30] [31] During the 1950s, the terminal moved south to Chamiss Bay. [32]
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