Galena Bay, British Columbia
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Galena Bay is an unincorporated locality on the bay of the same name on Upper Arrow Lake in British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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Galena Bay is the location of a terminal of the Upper Arrow Lakes Ferry. This linking Galena Bay to Shelter Bay
Shelter Bay, British Columbia
Shelter Bay is a ferry landing and unincorporated locality on Upper Arrow Lake in British Columbia, Canada.It serves as one terminus of the Upper Arrow Lakes Ferry, that crosses the lake to Galena Bay. This ferry connects British Columbia Highway 23 from Revelstoke to that highway's continuation...

, the link forming part of British Columbia Highway 23
British Columbia provincial highway 23
Highway 23 is a north-south highway that straddles the Trans-Canada Highway in the province's Columbia Country region. Its section north of Revelstoke is known as the Big Bend Highway and was part of the original routing of Highway 1 along the Columbia River. The Big Bend area was well known as...

 from Nakusp to Revelstoke
Revelstoke, British Columbia
Revelstoke is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located east of Vancouver, and west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just south of the Revelstoke Dam and near its confluence with the Illecillewaet River...

. Galena Bay is also the terminus of British Columbia Highway 31
British Columbia provincial highway 31
-Highway 31:Highway 31 is a slightly minor north-south highway through the Selkirk Mountains. The highway first gained its number in 1973, and it is one of the few numbered highways in the province that is not fully paved...

, which runs southeast via Trout Lake City and Lardeau
Lardeau
Lardeau, originally spelled Lardo, is an unincorporated community and former mining town near the north end of Kootenay Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, Canada...

 and then south down the west side of the north arm of Kootenay Lake
Kootenay Lake
Kootenay Lake is a lake located in British Columbia, Canada and is part of theKootenay River. The lake has been raised by the Corra Linn Dam and has a dike system at the southern end, which, along with industry in the 1950s-70s, has changed the ecosystem in and around the water...

 to Balfour
Balfour, British Columbia
Balfour, also known as Balfour Bay, is an unincorporated community in British Columbia, located about northeast of the city of Nelson and located at the juncture of Kootenay Lake with its West Arm....

, near Nelson
Nelson, British Columbia
Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the extreme West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Known as "The Queen City", and acknowledged for its impressive collection of restored heritage buildings from its glory days in a regional silver rush,...

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See also

  • Comaplix, British Columbia
    Comaplix, British Columbia
    Comaplix is the name of former mining town on the Incomappleux River in the northern Arrow Lakes region of British Columbia's Kootenay Country in Canada. The name of the town and an adjacent mountain and creek are derived form that of the river, which is an Okanagan word meaning "point at the head...

  • Camborne, British Columbia
    Camborne, British Columbia
    Camborne is a locality and former galena-mining town on the east side of the Incomappleux River, northeast of the head of Beaton Arm of Upper Arrow Lake in the Kootenay Country region of British Columbia....

  • Beaton, British Columbia
    Beaton, British Columbia
    Beaton, formerly Thomson's Landing and also formerly known as Evansport, is a locality and former townsite and steamboat landing at head head of Beaton Arm at the head of Upper Arrow Lake in the Kootenay Country of British Columbia, Canada...

  • Arrowhead, British Columbia
    Arrowhead, British Columbia
    Arrowhead is a former steamboat port and town at the head of Upper Arrow Lake in British Columbia, Canada. Though the initial site has been submerged beneath the waters of the lake, which is now part of the reservoir formed by Hugh Keenleyside Dam at Castlegar, the name continues in use as a...

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