Fort Steele

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Fort Steele

Founded

1864

Coordinates49.62°, -115.63°

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

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Overview

Fort Steele is a heritage site in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. This visitor attraction lies on the east shore of the Kootenay River between the mouths of the St. Mary River and Wild Horse River. The locality, on the merged section of highways 93 and 95, is by road about 17 kilometres (11 mi) northeast of Cranbrook and 230 kilometres (143 mi) southeast of Golden.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

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Books about Fort Steele

A guide to Fort Steele Historic Park

British Columbia. Parks Branch. · 1978

British Columbia's Highway 3

1987

The Kootenai Country

Great Northern Railway of Canada · 2018

Fort Steele

Miller, Naomi · 2002

Verse from Golden to Fort Steele

Murdoch McLeod

The Kootenai country

1896

Ghost towns of the Pacific Northwest

Philip Varney · 2005

Prospectus of the Cranbrook and Fort Steele Estates and Townsite Company (Limited Liability), Kootenay, B.C

Cranbrook and Fort Steele Estates and Townsite Company. · 1889

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