Campbell River

Campbell River

      district municipality, at the mouth of the Campbell River on the east coast of Vancouver Island, southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is a centre for lumbering and paper mills and a popular vacation centre renowned for salmon fishing (based on its Tyee Club [Tyee is an Indian word for large Chinook salmon]). Elk Falls and Strathcona provincial parks and the John Hart hydroelectric installations are nearby. The village (founded 1904) and river were named for Samuel Campbell, British naval surgeon of the “Plumper,” stationed there 1857–61. Inc. village, 1947; district municipality, 1964. Pop. (2006) 29,572.

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