Spillimacheen, British Columbia

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This article is about the town in the Columbia Valley/East Kootenay of British Columbia, Canada. For the similarly named district municipality in the North Okanagan, see Spallumcheen, British Columbia.

Spillimacheen is an unincorporated settlement in the Columbia Valley of British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Spillimacheen and Columbia Rivers, upstream from and southeast of the town of Golden.

References

"Spillimacheen (community)". BC Geographical Names. http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/16493.html.

v t e Steamboats of the Columbia River headwaters

Steamboats	Duchess (1886) Duchess (1888) Marion (1888) Pert (1890) Annerly (1892) Hyak (1892) Gwendoline (1893) Selkirk (1895) Rustler (1896) Ruth (1896) J.D. Farrell (1897) North Star (1897) Ptarmigan (1903) Isabella McCormack (1908) Klahowya (1910) Nowitka (1911) F.P. Armstrong (1913)

Motor vessels	Invermere (1912)

Landings	Golden Parson Spillimacheen Edgewater Radium Hot Springs Athalmer Invermere Windermere Fairmont Hot Springs Canal Flats Wasa Fort Steele Jennings, Montana Libby, Montana

Canals	Baillie-Grohman Canal

Companies	Upper Columbia River Nav. & Tramway Co. Kootenay River Navig. Co.

Geography	Columbia River Kootenay River Columbia Valley Spillimacheen River Canal Flats

Personnel	Frank P. Armstrong James D. Miller William A. Baillie-Grohman

Railways	Canadian Pacific Railway (mainline)

BC steamboats	Upper Fraser, Nechako and Stuart Rivers Skeena River Arrow Lakes and Columbia River Slocan Lake Kootenay Lake Columbia Lake-East Kootenay Lakes Route (Seton, Anderson and Lillooet Lakes) Lake Okanagan Skaha Lake Thompson-Shuswap Stikine River Peace & Finlay Rivers Steamboats of the Inside Passage Gulf of Georgia-Lower Fraser

NW steamboats	Columbia River Oregon Coast Willamette River Yaquina Bay and River Coquille River Cowlitz River Puget Sound Lake Washington Grays Harbor Chehalis River Hoquiam River Willapa Bay Columbia River (Wenatchee Reach) Lake Crescent Lower Kootenai River Upper Kootenai River

Coordinates: 50°54′N 116°22′W / 50.900°N 116.367°W / 50.900; -116.367

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