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The Best Attractions In Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands)

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Haida Gwaii , is an archipelago approximately 45-60 km off the northern Pacific coast of Canada. Part of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the islands were formerly and are still commonly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands. They are separated from the mainland to the east by the Hecate Strait. Queen Charlotte Sound lies to the south, with Vancouver Island beyond. To the north, the disputed Dixon Entrance separates Haida Gwaii from the Alexander Archipelago in the U.S. state of Alaska. The islands are the heartland of the Haida Nation. Haida people have lived on the islands for 13,000 years, and currently make up approximately half of the pop...
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The Best Attractions In Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands)

  • 4. Port Clements Museum Port Clements
    Port Clements is an incorporated village situated at the east end of Masset Inlet in Haida Gwaii off the coast of the Province of British Columbia in Canada. Known as Gamadiis in HlG̱aagilda X̱aayda kil, it is one of seven village sites that flourished in the rich waters at the mouth of Yakoun River, where an estuary shelters nine Pacific salmonid species and many kinds of birds. Founded by Eli Tingley in 1907, it was once known under the name Queenstown, but renamed to Port Clements in 1914 after Herb S. Clements, the local MP at the time , when the name Queenstown duplicated and therefore became unusable for the post office.The highway leading to Port Clements from Tlell and from Port Clements to Masset was paved in 1969 and soon after completion the village became incorporated in 1975...
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  • 5. Haida Heritage Centre at Kay Llnagaay Haida Gwaii Queen Charlotte Islands
    Haida are a nation and ethnic group native to, or otherwise associated with, Haida Gwaii and the Haida language. Haida language, which is an isolate language, has historically been spoken across Haida Gwaii and certain islands on the Alaska Panhandle, where it has been spoken for at least 14,000 years. Prior to the 19th century, Haida would speak a number of coastal First Nations languages such as Lingít, Nisg̱a'a and Sm'álgyax. After settlers' arrival and colonisation of the Haida through residential schools, few Haida speak X̱aayda/X̱aad kíl, though there are many efforts to revive the language. The Haida national government, the Council of the Haida Nation , is based in the archipelago of Haida Gwaii in northern British Columbia, Canada. A group known as the Kaigani Haida live acr...
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  • 6. Tow Hill Haida Gwaii Queen Charlotte Islands
    Tow Hill is a large isolated volcanic plug located 21 km east of Masset on the north end of the Naikoon Peninsula of northeast Graham Island in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada, east of McIntyre Bay and near the mouth of the Hiellen River, which is the site of Hiellen, a now-abandoned Haida village and of the Hiellen Indian Reserve No. 2, on the site of that village. Formerly Tow Hill Provincial Park, it is now part of Naikoon Provincial Park, which covers most of the northeastern flatland of Graham Island. Tow Hill is associated by the editors Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia with the Queen Charlotte Mountains which in turn form part of the Insular Mountains, but it is not physically part of the range, and is separated from mountainous parts of Graham Island by expanses of forested fla...
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  • 7. Skidegate Haida Gwaii Queen Charlotte Islands
    Skidegate is a Haida community in Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the southeast coast of Graham Island, the largest island in the archipelago, and is approximately 50 kilometres west of mainland British Columbia across Hecate Strait. Skidegate, which is located on Skidegate Indian Reserve No. 1 and was formerly home to the Skidegate Mission is also the northern terminal for the BC Ferries service between Graham Island and Alliford Bay on Moresby Island. According to tradition, the village was named after an earlier village chief, Sg̱iida-gidg̱a Iihllngas = Son of the Chiton”] whose name late 18th-century traders in sea otter pelts recorded as Skidegate. Between 1790 and 1820 the community was a hub for the exploitation of sea otter furs.The Haida Heritage Cent...
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  • 8. SGang Gwaay UNESCO World Heritage Site and National Historic Site Haida Gwaii Queen Charlotte Islands
    SG̱ang Gwaay Llanagaay , commonly known by its English name Ninstints, is a village site of the Haida people and part of the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site on Haida Gwaii on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. The village site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a National Historic Site of Canada, and a National Marine Conservation site.
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  • 9. Langara Island Haida Gwaii Queen Charlotte Islands
    Langara Island is the northernmost Island of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, Canada. The island is approximately 8,080 acres in size. It is located approximately 45 kilometres south of Alaska.
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