Lardeau
Lardeau is an unincorporated community, and former mining town and steamboat landing. The settlement is on the west shore near the head of Kootenay Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia.- Type: Hamlet with 387 residents
- Description: human settlement in British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Lardeau, British Columbia” and “Lardo”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Argenta.
Argenta
Hamlet
Argenta is a settlement in British Columbia. Located on the west side of the Purcell Mountains, on the northeast shore of Kootenay Lake, it was founded during a silver mining boom in the 1890s. Argenta is situated 6 km north of Lardeau.
Lardeau
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Regional District of Central Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
50.14544° or 50° 8′ 44″ north
Longitude
-116.95269° or 116° 57′ 10″ west
Population
387
Elevation
530 metres (1,739 feet)
Open location code
952542WW+5W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Irish—“Lardeau” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Lardeau”
- Irish: “Lardeau”
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