Boat Encampment

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Boat Encampment was a rendezvous and staging-point for the Hudson's Bay Company in the early 19th Century and later a locality by that name in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was located at the "top" of the Big Bend of the Columbia north of the city of Revelstoke, British Columbia and southeast of Valemount. Its site today is beneath the waters of Kinbasket Lake Reservoir, formed by the Mica Dam of the Columbia River Treaty.

[edit] History

Boat Encampment was already an established company location when David Thompson used it as his base for his downward exploration and charting of the Columbia River. It was an important waystation during the twice-annual company "Express" between Fort Vancouver and York Factory, and as a setting figures in the tragic story of the Dalles des Morts.

It remained on British Columbia roadmaps and town registries until its inundation.