VALEMOUNT

VALEMOUNT

Is a small community located in the northeast sector of the province of British Columbia, at the north end of Kinbasket Lake, 278 kilometers east of Prince George and along Highway #5 (Yellowhead Highway). The community is surrounded by beautiful scenery, as well as 3 mountain ranges; the Cariboo, Monashee, and Rocky. Valemount began as a Canadian National Railway station in 1927 and used to be known as Swift Creek and has become one of British Columbia’s prime and major tourist and recreation destinations because of its close location to both of Jasper and Robson National Park. At an elevation of 3,954 meters (12,972) Mount Robson is the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies and the second largest of British Columbia behind that of Mount Fairweather near the Alaska/British Columbia borders. Logging is playing a huge roll in Valemount’s economy, which was incorporated as a village in 1962 and is named for its location in the mountains (vale amid the mountains). Vale is also another word for wide river valley.

VALEMOUNT’S POPULATION: 1,081