[2] The lake maintains a small wintering population of Marbled Murrelets which also nest in the area, the only freshwater alcids on Earth.

The bow and arrow reached the region sometime early in this period, between 750 and 100 (cal) BCE (Blitz 1988; Pettigrew 1990; Ross 1990).

Many believe they were carved by the Nuu Chah nulth ancestors in what is now called British Columbia, but there is no concrete evidence pointing to them.

In 1959 four Martin JRM Mars large, four-engined cargo transport flying boats, designed and built by the Martin Company for the United States Navy during World War II, were acquired by Forest Industries Flying Tankers (FIFT) to use as firefighting water bombers.

The four aircraft were flown to Fairey Aviation at Victoria, British Columbia, for conversion into water bombers.