Babine Lake borders the Skeena and Omineca regions of central British Columbia, Canada.

At the time, the French word babine also meant a large lower lip like that of a cow or horse.

The lake drains northwestward into the Babine River, an important tributary of the Skeena.

[2] From the 1820s, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) procured large quantities of salmon from the Babines, who installed fishing weirs across this river and some of the lake tributaries.

[18] As the canneries became established at the mouth of the Skeena increasing pressure on the government to stop the long established weir system at Nass Glee near present day Wit"at(Fort Babine) resulted in the Barricade Treaty of 1906.

Each season the Lake Babine Nation (LBN) set up weirs in accordance with the dictates of their annual Bal'Hat.

Babine Lake is part of the long standing 'Grease Trail', a major trade route connecting coastal nations with the BC Interior.

Although a ferry likely existed over the North Arm during the Omineca Gold Rush, one definitely operated for miners during the 1890s.

[30][31] Compressed air released from lower levels to the surface prevented the ferry channel from freezing during winter.

[35] On the 40-minute crossing, the ferry can carry eight to nine logging trucks[36] for Canadian Forests Products.