Firvale

Firvale is an unincorporated community in the Bella Coola Valley region of west central British Columbia, Canada.

Immigrants of various origins subsequently arrived, until a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) cluster formed upstream.

Over the following years, other Adventist families came, also looking for a remote area that would serve as a refuge, while awaiting the Second Coming, believed to be imminent.

[6] By the 1910s, telephone lines connected the lower valley[7] from the exchange at Hagensborg,[8] which was the nearest community, located about 29 kilometres (18 mi) by wagon road downstream.

[22] To surmount the need of swimming horses through the current, Mr. Hawkinson and son installed[23] a tolled ferry around 1907, but settlers were soon demanding a bridge.

[33] Since the highway from the west had long relocated to the north shore[25] the redundant structure was not repaired prior to removal.

[35] During September–October in 2016 and 2017, a bull moose, which wandered to Firvale, spent the hunting season protected among a herd of cattle.

[44] By 1912, this name was in common usage, and a wagon road stretched up the Bella Coola Valley to this point, before reducing to a pack-trail.

A local couple, who purchased the land in 2018 to create a bird sanctuary, instead donated the property to the NCC in 2021.

In addition to protecting forest birds, the land also enhances salmon and trout habitat and provides a secure travel corridor for large mammals through the Bella Coola Valley.

[49] Immediately south of the southwest corner of the provincial park is the McCall Flats Recreation Area, which includes camping sites and pit toilets.

Firvale and Saloompt Mountain, 2008
Bridge, Burnt Bridge Creek, 1920