Port Alice
Port Alice | |
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| Village of Port Alice[1] | |
  Port Alice Location of Port Alice in British Columbia | |
| Coordinates: 50°25′36″N 127°29′17″W / 50.42667°N 127.48806°W | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  British Columbia |
| Regional district | Mount Waddington |
| Government | |
| • Governing body | Port Alice Village Council |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7.04 km2 (2.72 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 664 |
| • Density | 94/km2 (240/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (PST) |
| Highways |  Hwy 30 |
| Website | www |
Port Alice is a village of approximately 664 (2016 census) located on Neroutsos Inlet, southwest of Port McNeill, on Vancouver Island, originally built by Whalen Pulp and Paper Mills of Vancouver. The community is known for its natural environment, pulp mill, and salt water fishing.
History[]
It was named after Alice Whalen, the founders' mother. The brothers Whalen began their construction of the mill at its present site in 1917,[2] with first pulp produced in 1918. The mill at Swanson Bay, on the Inside Passage farther north, was also a Whalen operation. Port Alice bears a resemblance to Port Annie, the fictional town described by Vancouver Island author Jack Hodgins in his novel The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne.[citation needed] The new orchid hybrid "Port Alice" has been officially listed at London England in the Royal Horticultural Society's "Book of Registered Orchid Hybrids". This slipper-type flower is the result of crossing a complex hybrid Paphiopedilum "Western Sky" with a species Paphiopedilum appletonianum.
Geography[]
Devil’s Bath, a flooded sinkhole near Port Alice, is an example of a cenote[3] and is the largest in Canada at 359 meters in diameter and 44 meters in depth.[4]
There are a number of hiking destinations in the area. They include Devil’s Bath, Eternal Fountain, Vanishing River & Reappearing River. These are a series of ancient karst and limestone formations. The access is through dirt roads.
Climate[]
Port Alice has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) and is one of the mildest and wettest places in Canada, receiving 3.3 metres (130 in) of actual rainfall per year and exceptionally little snow, which amounts to as much as 33 percent more rainfall than infamously wet Prince Rupert and only marginally less than Southeast Alaska’s wettest cities of Ketchikan and Yakutat which each average around 3.8 metres (150 in) and receive much more snowfall.
| hideClimate data for Port Alice | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 20.5 (68.9) |
19.0 (66.2) |
21.5 (70.7) |
26.0 (78.8) |
31.5 (88.7) |
33.5 (92.3) |
35.5 (95.9) |
34.5 (94.1) |
29.5 (85.1) |
26.5 (79.7) |
22.8 (73.0) |
17.2 (63.0) |
35.5 (95.9) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 7.4 (45.3) |
8.0 (46.4) |
9.9 (49.8) |
12.2 (54.0) |
15.6 (60.1) |
18.1 (64.6) |
20.8 (69.4) |
20.9 (69.6) |
18.4 (65.1) |
13.3 (55.9) |
9.2 (48.6) |
7.0 (44.6) |
13.4 (56.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 4.9 (40.8) |
5.1 (41.2) |
6.4 (43.5) |
8.3 (46.9) |
11.3 (52.3) |
13.8 (56.8) |
16.1 (61.0) |
16.4 (61.5) |
14.1 (57.4) |
10.2 (50.4) |
6.6 (43.9) |
4.6 (40.3) |
9.8 (49.6) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 2.4 (36.3) |
2.2 (36.0) |
3.0 (37.4) |
4.2 (39.6) |
6.9 (44.4) |
9.5 (49.1) |
11.4 (52.5) |
11.8 (53.2) |
9.7 (49.5) |
7.0 (44.6) |
4.0 (39.2) |
2.2 (36.0) |
6.2 (43.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −12.2 (10.0) |
−11.5 (11.3) |
−5.5 (22.1) |
−1.7 (28.9) |
0.5 (32.9) |
1.1 (34.0) |
5.0 (41.0) |
4.5 (40.1) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
−11.5 (11.3) |
−12.8 (9.0) |
−12.8 (9.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 492.2 (19.38) |
354.0 (13.94) |
320.4 (12.61) |
258.3 (10.17) |
147.3 (5.80) |
100.1 (3.94) |
59.5 (2.34) |
94.6 (3.72) |
130.2 (5.13) |
417.6 (16.44) |
561.4 (22.10) |
491.2 (19.34) |
3,426.8 (134.91) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 484.1 (19.06) |
345.3 (13.59) |
316.1 (12.44) |
257.8 (10.15) |
147.3 (5.80) |
100.1 (3.94) |
59.5 (2.34) |
94.6 (3.72) |
130.2 (5.13) |
417.5 (16.44) |
559.1 (22.01) |
487.0 (19.17) |
3,398.6 (133.80) |
| Average snowfall cm (inches) | 8.1 (3.2) |
8.7 (3.4) |
4.3 (1.7) |
0.5 (0.2) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.1 (0.0) |
2.4 (0.9) |
4.2 (1.7) |
28.3 (11.1) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm) | 23.3 | 19.7 | 22.7 | 20.1 | 17.0 | 16.0 | 10.4 | 11.9 | 14.6 | 22.2 | 24.1 | 22.8 | 224.7 |
| Average rainy days (≥ 0.2 mm) | 22.8 | 19.5 | 22.5 | 20.1 | 17.0 | 16.0 | 10.4 | 11.9 | 14.6 | 22.2 | 24.0 | 22.3 | 223.3 |
| Average snowy days (≥ 0.2 cm) | 2.2 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 9.2 |
| Source: [5] | |||||||||||||
Notable people[]
- Jason Bowen – NHL player 1992 - 1998 Between Philadelphia Flyers and Edmonton Oilers
- Paul Manly – Green MP, and the son of the former NDP MP Jim Manly
- Patrick Moore – founding member of Greenpeace[6]
- Dale Walters – 1984 Olympics bronze medalist in boxing
- Daryl Sturdy - 1962 World Rowing Championships, eights 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, eights 1963 Pan American Games, gold medal in eights, 1964 Tokyo Olympics, eights 1966 World Rowing Championships, coxless four 1967 Pan American Games,silver medal in pair,Royal Canadian Henley Regatta 1967 gold medal in junior singles, 1968 Mexico Olympics double
References[]
- ^ "British Columbia Regional Districts, Municipalities, Corporate Name, Date of Incorporation and Postal Address" (XLS). British Columbia Ministry of Communities, Sport and Cultural Development. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ^ "Port Alice Official Website".
- ^ map of the area
- ^ Port Alice Tourism Vancouver Island North
- ^ "Calculation Information for 1981 to 2010 Canadian Normals Data". Environment Canada. Archived from the original on February 19, 2014. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
- ^ http://ecosense.me/bio/
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- Villages in British Columbia
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- Populated places in the Regional District of Mount Waddington