Granisle
Granisle | |
|---|---|
| Village of Granisle[1] | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  British Columbia |
| Region | BC Interior |
| Regional district | Regional District of Buckley-Nechako |
| Incorporated | 1971 |
| Government | |
| • Governing body | Granisle Village Council |
| Area | |
| • Total | 41.86 km2 (16.16 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 740 m (2,430 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 303 |
| • Density | 7.2/km2 (19/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (PST) |
| Waterways | Babine Lake |
| Website | Village of Granisle |
Granisle is a village on Babine Lake in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, to the north of Topley between Burns Lake and Houston.
History
The early inhabitants of the area were Carrier Indians, called "Babine" by the early explorers, referring to the distended ornamented lower lips of the native women.
The village of Granisle was founded in the late 1960s and early 1970s on the shores of Babine Lake as a home for the families of the miners working in the nearby copper mines. Granisle was incorporated as a village in 1971. At the height of its population, Granisle boasted approximately 3,000 people.
After the last mine shut down in 1992, the community transformed into a retirement destination. Tourism in the area also began to grow and is now the area's main industry.
In 1971 workmen excavating in an open-pit copper mine at Babine Lake discovered the partly articulated skeleton of a Columbian Mammoth. The bones were taken from silty pond deposits overlain by very thick boulder-clay deposited by the last glacier that covered the area. Radiocarbon dates indicate that the animal sank in sticky pond deposits about 34,000 years ago. A replica of some of the Mammoth's Bones can be seen at the Granisle Museum.
Village
Granisle had an ice hockey team in the now non-existent Pacific Northwest Hockey League.
References
- ^ "British Columbia Regional Districts, Municipalities, Corporate Name, Date of Incorporation and Postal Address" (XLS). British Columbia Ministry of Communities, Sport and Cultural Development. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
External links
- Official website of the village of Granisle
- Touristic website of Granisle
- Article about Granisle in the Canadian encyclopedia
- Article about mining in Granisle
- Granisle on BritishColumbia.com
