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The Best Attractions In Castlegar

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Castlegar is the second largest community in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. Castlegar is located within the Selkirk Mountains at the confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers. Castlegar is a regional trade and transportation centre, with a local economy fueled by forestry, mining and tourism. Castlegar was recently cited as one of the Top 8 Places in British Columbia for most promising growth. It is home to Selkirk College, a regional airport, a pulp mill, and several sawmills. The population of 7,259 people includes a large number of Doukhobors, who were largely responsible for much of Castlegar's early development and grow...
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  • 3. Syringa Provincial Park Castlegar
    Syringa Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is located west of Castlegar, on the shores of Lower Arrow Lake. The park runs along the edge of the Columbia River with a rocky beach and has amenities for boating, camping, and hiking.
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  • 5. Twin Rivers Park Castlegar
    This is a list of sister cities in Canada. This is a subset of the worldwide List of twin towns and sister cities. As well Canada also has Canada Provincial/State Twinning Relationships.
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  • 8. Nancy Greene Provincial Park Castlegar
    Nancy Greene Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located approximately 27 km northwest of the city of Rossland and 31 km west of the city of Castlegar in that province's West Kootenay region, at the junction of Highway 3 and Highway 3B. It is named for Nancy Greene, Canadian Olympic medallist in downhill skiing, who is a native of Rossland.
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  • 9. Doukhobor Discovery Centre Castlegar
    The Doukhobours or Dukhobors are a Spiritual Christian religious group of Russian origin. They are one of many non-Orthodox ethno-confessional faiths in Russia, often categorized as folk-Protestants, Spiritual Christians, sectarians, and/or heretics. They are distinguished as pacifists who lived in their own villages, rejected personal materialism, worked together, and developed a tradition of oral history and memorizing and singing hymns and verses. Before 1886, they had a series of single leaders. The ancient origin of the Doukhobors is uncertain. The first written records of them are from the 1700s, some scholars suspect earlier origins.They rejected the Russian Orthodox priesthood, the use of icons, and all associated church ritual. They came to believe that the Bible alone, as a supre...
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  • 10. Baker Street Nelson
    Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the extreme West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Known as The Queen City, and acknowledged for its impressive collection of restored heritage buildings from its glory days in a regional silver rush, Nelson is one of the three cities forming the commercial and population core of the West Kootenay region, the others being Castlegar and Trail. The city is the seat of the Regional District of Central Kootenay. It is represented in the provincial legislature by the riding of Nelson-Creston, and in the Parliament of Canada by the riding of Kootenay—Columbia.
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  • 12. Whitewater Ski Resort Nelson
    Whitewater Ski Resort is a ski resort located a 25-minute drive from Nelson in southern British Columbia, Canada. The resort is situated in Ymir bowl, beneath the 2,400 m high Ymir Mountain, in the Selkirk Mountains. The Selkirks receive plentiful, dry snow, and the location in a high alpine bowl provides an annual snowfall average of approximately 12 m . The elevation of the parking lot is 1,605 m and the highest lift accessed point is 2,000 m . While Ymir Peak is not included within the ski area boundary, lifts climb both shoulders of the bowl and provide easy traverse routes along ridges to the top. In addition to its snow, the resort is renowned for its tree skiing and steep runs; only 20% of the runs are beginner, while 40% are intermediate and the remaining 40% are advanced. Areas su...
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