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Bute Inlet topographic map

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Name: Bute Inlet topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Bute Inlet, Area B (Discovery Islands/Mainland Inlets), Strathcona Regional District, British Columbia, Canada (50.34517 -125.13364 50.90189 -124.80197)

Average elevation: 921 m

Minimum elevation: 0 m

Maximum elevation: 2,636 m

The Bute Inlet route was later considered for the mainline of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), which would have seen extensive blasting down the west shore of the inlet and a series of bridges to reach Vancouver Island near Campbell River via Seymour Narrows. This route was passed over in favour of the Fraser Canyon route to a new port-city at Burrard Inlet, which was to become the city of Port Moody. The residual political impact of the Chilcotin War was one factor dissuading the CPR from using Bute Inlet; the other was the severe grades required in the canyon of the Homathko River in order to reach the elevation of the Chilcotin Plateau on the inland side of the Coast Range, as well as the cost of blasting along the inlet and the deep water bridges needed below it.

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