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Fort St. James, the Glossary

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North West Company forts
Populated places in the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako

Brian Spencer

Brian Roy "Spinner" Spencer (September 3, 1949 – June 3, 1988) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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British Columbia Highway 16

Highway 16 is a highway in British Columbia, Canada.

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British Columbia Highway 27

Highway 27, the Stuart Lake Highway, is a 53 km (33 mi) long spur of the Yellowhead Highway in the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako.

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Buddhism in Canada

Buddhism is among the smallest minority-religions in Canada, with a very slowly growing population in the country, partly the result of conversion, with only 4.6% of new immigrants identifying themselves as Buddhist.

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Christianity in Canada

Christianity is the most adhered-to religion in Canada, with 19,373,330 Canadians, or 53.3%, identifying themselves as of the 2021 census.

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Church (congregation)

A church (or local church) is a religious organization or congregation that meets in a particular location.

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Cody Legebokoff

Cody Alan Legebokoff (born 21 January 1990) is a Canadian serial killer convicted in 2014 by the British Columbia Supreme Court of murdering three women and one teenage girl, between 2009 and 2010, in or near the city of Prince George, British Columbia.

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Dakelh

The Dakelh (pronounced) or Carrier are the indigenous people of a large portion of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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District municipality

A district municipality is a designation for a class of municipalities found in several locations, including Canada, Lithuania, and South Africa. Fort St. James and district municipality are district municipalities in British Columbia.

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Dylan Playfair

Dylan Playfair (born June 19, 1992) is a Canadian actor from Fort St. James, British Columbia.

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Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC; Environnement et Changement climatique Canada)Environment and Climate Change Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of the Environment.

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European Canadians

European Canadians or Euro-Canadians, are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the continent of Europe.

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First Nations in Canada

First Nations (Premières Nations) is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis.

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Fort St. James (Perison) Airport

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Fur trade

The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.

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Gurdwara

A gurdwara or gurudwara (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ gurdu'ārā, literally "Door of the Guru") is a place of assembly and worship for Sikhs but its normal meaning is place of guru or "Home of guru".

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Hemiboreal

Hemiboreal means halfway between the temperate and subarctic (or boreal) zones.

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Hinduism in Canada

Hinduism is the third-largest religion in Canada, which is followed by approximately 2.3% of the nation's total population.

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History of the Jews in Canada

Canadian Jews, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion, form the fourth largest Jewish community in the world, exceeded only by those in Israel, the United States and France.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) and snowy winters.

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Indian reserve

In Canada, an Indian reserve (reserve indienne) is defined by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." Reserves are areas set aside for First Nations, one of the major groupings of Indigenous peoples in Canada, after a contract with the Canadian state ("the Crown"), and are not to be confused with Indigenous peoples' claims to ancestral lands under Aboriginal title.

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Indigenous peoples in Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada (Peuples autochtones au Canada, also known as Aboriginals) are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada.

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Irreligion in Canada

Irreligion is common throughout all provinces and territories of Canada.

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Islam in Canada

Islam is the second-largest religion in Canada practised by approximately 5% of the population.

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James McDougall (explorer)

James McDougall was a nineteenth-century fur trader and explorer, who is remembered for his participation in opening up present-day British Columbia, Canada to European settlement as part of a North West Company expedition to the region, led by Simon Fraser.

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Jim Playfair

James Playfair (born May 22, 1964) is a Canadian former ice hockey coach and player.

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Johan Pitka

Johan Pitka, VR I/1, (also Juhan Pitka; 19 February 1872 – 22 November 1944) was an Estonian entrepreneur, sea captain and a rear admiral (1919).

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John Stuart (explorer)

John Stuart (12 September 1780 – 14 January 1847) was a 19th-century Scottish–Canadian explorer and fur trader.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kwah

Kwah is the usual English form of the name of the famous Carrier leader Kw'eh.

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Larry Playfair

Larry William Playfair (born June 23, 1958) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.

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List of British Columbia provincial highways

The Canadian province of British Columbia has a system of numbered highways that travel between various cities and regions with onward connections to neighboring provinces and U.S. states.

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List of district municipalities in British Columbia

A district municipality is a classification of municipalities used in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Fort St. James and List of district municipalities in British Columbia are district municipalities in British Columbia.

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List of National Historic Sites of Canada in British Columbia

This is a list of National Historic Sites (Lieux historiques nationaux) in the province of British Columbia.

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List of postal codes of Canada: V

This is a list of postal codes in Canada where the first letter is V. Postal codes beginning with V are located within the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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List of regional districts of British Columbia

The Canadian province of British Columbia is divided into regional districts as a means to better enable municipalities and rural areas to work together at a regional level.

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Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and iPadOS.

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Nak'azdli Band

Nak'azdli Whut'en is a Dakelh First Nation band with a main community located next to the village of Fort St. James, British Columbia.

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National Historic Sites of Canada

National Historic Sites of Canada (Lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places that have been designated by the federal Minister of the Environment on the advice of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (HSMBC), as being of national historic significance.

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New Caledonia (Canada)

New Caledonia was a fur-trading district of the Hudson's Bay Company that comprised the territory of the north-central portions of present-day British Columbia, Canada.

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North West Company

The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821.

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Omineca Country

The Omineca Country, also called the Omineca District or the Omineca, is a historical geographic region of the Northern Interior of British Columbia, roughly defined by the basin of the Omineca River but including areas to the south which allowed access to the region during the Omineca Gold Rush of the 1860s.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Pacific Time Zone

The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.

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Panethnicity

Panethnicity is a political neologism used to group various ethnic groups together based on their related cultural origins; geographic, linguistic, religious, or 'racial' (i.e. phenotypic) similarities are often used alone or in combination to draw panethnic boundaries.

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Pinchie, British Columbia

Pinchie is the English name of the Carrier village of Binche on the northeast shore of Stuart Lake, outside of Fort Saint James in north central British Columbia.

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Population

Population is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.

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Punjabi Canadians

Punjabi Canadians number approximately 950,000 and account for roughly 2.6% of Canada's population, as per the 2021 Canadian census.

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Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako

The Regional District of Bulkley–Nechako (RDBN) is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Canada.

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Sikhism in Canada

Sikhism is the fourth-largest religious group in Canada, with nearly 800,000 adherents, or 2.1% of Canada's population, as of 2021.

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Sikhism in Greater Vancouver

Sikhism in Greater Vancouver is one of the main religions across the region, especially among the Indo-Canadian population.

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Simon Fraser (explorer)

Simon Fraser (20 May 1776 – 18 August 1862) was a Canadian explorer and fur trader who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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South Asian Canadians

South Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to South Asia or the Indian subcontinent, which includes the nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.

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South Asian Canadians in British Columbia

The South Asian community in British Columbia was first established in 1897.

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Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada (StatCan; Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture.

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Stuart Lake

Stuart Lake, or Nak'albun ("Mount Pope Lake") in the Carrier (Dakelh) language is a lake situated in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Stuart River (Canada)

The Stuart River or Nak'alkoh (Dakelh name) is one of the largest tributaries of the Nechako River in northeastern British Columbia, Canada.

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Tachie, British Columbia

Tachie is a Carrier village in British Columbia, located where the Tachie River enters Stuart Lake.

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Trading post

A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory in European and colonial contexts, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded.

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Vanderhoof, British Columbia

Vanderhoof is a district municipality near the geographical centre of British Columbia, Canada. Fort St. James and Vanderhoof, British Columbia are district municipalities in British Columbia and Populated places in the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_St._James

Also known as Fort Saint James, Fort St James, Fort St. James National Historic Site, Fort St. James, British Columbia, Stuart Lake Post.

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Fort St. James, the Glossary

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See also

North West Company forts

Populated places in the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako

References