British Columbia
Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako
Fort St. James

Fort St. James

Fort St. James is a district municipality and former fur trading post in northern central , Canada. It is located on the south-eastern shore of in the Omineca Country, at the northern terminus of Highway 27, which connects to Highway 16 at .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: district municipality and former fur trading post in north-central British Columbia, Canada
  • Also known as: “Fort St. James National Historic Site”

Fort St. James

Latitude
54.44031° or 54° 26′ 25″ north
Longitude
-124.25575° or 124° 15′ 21″ west
Population
1,390
Elevation
700 metres (2,297 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CA SJA
Open location code
946QCPRV+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 221226896
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­fort
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
5881688
Wiki­data ID
Q177800
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Urdu—“Fort St. James” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Fort St. James”
  • Dagbani: “Fort Saint James”
  • Estonian: “Fort St. James”
  • French: “Fort St. James”
  • German: “Fort St. James”
  • Hebrew: “פורט סנט ג’יימס”
  • Italian: “Fort St. James”
  • Spanish: “Fort St. James”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт-Сент-Джеймс”
  • Urdu: “فورٹ سینٹ جیمز”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fort St. James”. Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.