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| | Stewart, BC, Canada - Community Information for Stewart, British Columbia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Stewart offers low cost available housing and land, a skilled work force, a salt water port, a barge terminal, a bulk commodity loader on salt water, a paved highway to major transportation routes, an excess of hydro power available for industrial use, and new sewage lagoons capable of servicing a town of approximately 6,000 people. |
 | | Mining was Stewart's beginning when 68 prospectors came to the head of the Portland Canal in the spring of 1898 looking for placer gold. |
 | | Stewart is on the Cassiar Highway at the head of the Portland Canal, a narrow saltwater fjord approximately 90 miles/145 kilometres long. |
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