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.