Alert Bay
| Alert Bay | |
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| The Corporation of the Village of Alert Bay | |
The big house near Alert Bay.
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 Alert Bay
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| Coordinates: 50°34′57″N 126°55′31″W / 50.58250°N 126.92528°WCoordinates: 50°34′57″N 126°55′31″W / 50.58250°N 126.92528°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 British Columbia
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| Region | Central Coast |
| Regional district | Mount Waddington |
| Incorporated | 1946 |
| Government | |
| • Governing body | Alert Bay Village Council |
| • MP | John Duncan (Conservative) |
| • MLA | Claire Trevena (NDP) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.78 km2 (0.69 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 30 m (100 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 1,200-1,500 |
| • Density | 360/km2 (2,300/sq mi) |
| Time zone | PST (UTC-8) |
| Highways | Ferry to Port McNeill and Sointula |
| Waterways | Johnstone Strait, Broughton Strait, Cormorant Channel |
| Climate | Cfb |
| Website | Village of Alert Bay |
Alert Bay is a village on Cormorant Island, in the Regional District of Mount Waddington, British Columbia, Canada. 1,200-1,500 people live within the village.
More than half of the village's 982 residents are First Nations people. The village is in traditional Kwakwaka'wakw territory. Two Indian Reserves take up the rest of Cormorant Island, Alert Bay 1 on the east side of the island,Alert Bay 1A on the west.
Alert Bay has a grocery store, museums, a traditional 'big house', a hospital, an RCMP station, a drug store, a post office, three restaurants and retail gift shops, a BC liquor store, a Royal Canadian Legion, a pub, doctors' offices, dental clinic, a drug and alcohol treatment centre, Alert Bay Drugs has automated teller machine exterior of their building. also automated teller machine inside Bayside Pub. The town has an Alert Bay Airport, a public airport and the Alert Bay Water Aerodrome. There is a boat harbour and a BC Ferries terminal with service to Sointula and Port McNeill. There is also one campground and an ecological park consisting of a cedar swamp and a small area of old-growth trees.
There is the Alert Bay Elementary School elementary school in Alert Bay for children in kindergarten and grades 1 to 7 and the T'lisalagi'lakw School (independent) owned and operated by the 'Namgis First Nation for children in Nursery, Kindergarten and grades 1 to 7. Grades 8 to 12 travel by foot ferrywater taxi to a school in nearby Port McNeill on Vancouver Island, along with students from Sointula on nearby Malcolm Island and others on North Island.
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