Rivers Inlet

Rivers Inlet
Rivers Inlet Location in British Columbia
Location	British Columbia, Canada
Coordinates	51°40′39″N 127°18′42″W / 51.67750°N 127.31167°W / 51.67750; -127.31167
Type	Fjord
Ocean/sea sources	Pacific Ocean

Rivers Inlet^[1] is a fjord in the Central Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, its entrance off Fitz Hugh Sound, about 125 km (78 mi) southwest of the community of Bella Coola and about 65 km (40 mi) north of the northern tip of Vancouver Island and the western entrance of the Queen Charlotte Strait.

Rivers Inlet was a major fishing area with huge salmon runs. At one time it had the second largest sockeye salmon run only to the Fraser River. A total of 19 Canneries were built in the area starting late in the 1890's. Three canneries remained as they dotted the shorelines until their closure by consolidation through the monopoly of companies, and the consolidation around large centralized ice plants in the 1950s.