Jervis Inlet
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Jervis Inlet is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast, about 95 km northwest of downtown Vancouver. It stretches 90 km from its head at the mouth of the short (18 km) Skwakwa River to its opening into the Strait of Georgia near Texada Island. At its uppermost stretch is Queens Reach, which takes a sharp right-angle often seen in fjord areas, to become Princess Royal Reach: both reaches are about 20 km in length. The most frequented of the inlets around Queens Reach is Princess Louisa Inlet - home to the Malibu Club, a Young Life high school camp, and a busy destination for recreational watercraft traveling upstream to the Princess Louisa Marine Provincial Park and popular Chatterbox Falls.
At the mouth of Jervis Inlet a short passenger and vehicle ferry operated by BC Ferries connects Earl's Cove on the upper end of the Sechelt Peninsula of the lower Sunshine Coast with Saltery Bay, on the bottom end of the Malaspina Peninsula of the upper Sunshine Coast.
Logging and fishing featured in the areas history, large logging camps were at Goliath Bay and Vancouver Bay. The undeniable slash looming above Egmont screams of modern logging practice. There were logging camps in Hotham Sound, and fish packing at Saltery Bay.
N.B. Typically "Jervis" is pronounced JAR-vis in British Columbia, a reminder of the British legacy in that province, although the more North American pronunciation JUR-vis is often heard.
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Deep Water Properties of Jervis Inlet Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
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