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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Steamboats of the upper Columbia and Kootenay Rivers, Baillie-Grohman Canal, Golden, British Columbia, North Star, Invermere, British Columbia, Kicking Horse River, Kicking Horse Resort, Big Hill, Gwendoline, Marion, Ptarmigan, Panorama Mountain Village, Klahowya, Selkirk, Nowitka, Canal Flats, British Columbia, Pert, Bugaboo Spire, Isabella McCormack, Donald, British Columbia, Spillimacheen River, Hyak, Conrad Kain hut, Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, Columbia Lake, Howser Spire, Kootanae House, School District 6 Rocky Mountain, Columbia Wetlands, Windermere Lake, Fairmont Hot Springs, British Columbia, Beaverfoot Range, Kootenay Ranges, Shuswap Indian Band, Pigeon Spire, Golden Airport, Sinclair Pass, Snowpatch Spire, Wilmer, British Columbia, James Chabot Provincial Park, Shuswap Indian Reserve, Spillimacheen, British Columbia, Divide Creek, Bugaboo Provincial Park, Canal Flats Provincial Park, Columbia Lake Provincial Park. Excerpt: From 1886 to 1920, steamboats ran on the upper reaches of the Columbia and Kootenay in the Rocky Mountain Trench, in western North America. The circumstances of the rivers in the area, and the construction of transcontinental railways across the trench from east to west made steamboat navigation possible. The Columbia River begins at Columbia Lake, flows north in the trench through the Columbia Valley to Windermere Lake to Golden, BC. The Kootenay River flows south from the Rocky Mountains, then west into the Rocky Mountain Trench, coming within just over a mile (1.6 km) from Columbia Lake, at a point called Canal Flats, where a shipping canal was built in 1889. The Kootenay then flows south down the Rocky Mountain Trench, crosses the international border and then turns north back into Canada and into Kootenay Lake near the town of Creston, BC. The upper Columbia and the upper...
