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Skeena River

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Skeena River

River, western British Columbia, Canada. It rises in the northern part of the province and flows about 360 mi (580 km) before emptying into Chatham Sound on the Pacific Ocean. An important salmon-fishing stream, it has several canneries near its mouth.



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It notes, Laxyuubm Ts'myseen, the land of the Tsimshian, encompasses the Skeena River watershed of British Columbia from the Pacific Ocean east to the Skeena Mountains, and the coastal lands and offshore islands from the Nass River south to Douglas Channel.
As well, they had access to the Skeena River, which even today has up to five million spawning salmon a year, and one of the largest runs of wild steelhead on the planet, so they had all the salmon and forest resources they could use.
A highway follows the Skeena River in northern British Columbia.
 
 
 
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