Bulkley River
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The Bulkley River in British Columbia is a major tributary of the Skeena River. Known for the finest steelhead fishing in Canada and among the best in the world, the Bulkley is 257 km long with a drainage basin covering 12,400 km².[1]
Much of the Bulkey is paralleled by provincial Highway 16. It flows west from Bulkley Lake past Perow and is joined near Houston by the Morice River, its major tributary. The Bulkley continues north past Quick, Telkwa and Smithers. It then meets the Skeena River near Hazelton.
The river was originally called Wet'sinkwha by the original native inhabitants of the Bulkley Valley. The name Bulkley was given for Colonel Charles Bulkley, the Engineer-in-charge of the survey team who, in 1866 explored the area in preparation for the failed Collins Overland Telegraph, otherwise known as the Russian American Telegraph.
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