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Egmont
Littlest Community but Biggest Heart!
Related Story: Pender/Egmont Rambles
Downtown Egmont at the Post Office
Great places to explore in the Egmont area are Downtown Egmont (we capitalize it in respect of its tiny and unique heritage and feel), pictured above. There is nothing like wandering through the park, hall, store and Bathgates and the Backeddy to give you a feel for old-time Sunshine Coast living, with its lack of car traffic, slow pace, friendly people and a sense of a place out of time.
Egmont Community Hall & Thrift Store
Places to Stay in the Egmont area include:
Did you know?
Where Egmont got it's name...
Egmont is named after the HMS Egmont. Rear Admiral Sir John Jervis helmed the HMS Egmont at the Battle of St. Vincent in the 1700s!
Totem & View, Egmont Marina
Important Dates:
Egmont Day is held annually every June and is a community-wide celebration with arts & crafts, family fun and games, and a popular Saturday Night Dance. Date is TBA.
Egmont Thrift Store
Near Egmont, are the tidal rapids at Skookumchuck Narrows, one of the most exciting sights on the Coast. As tidal waters are forced through the narrow, shallow channel between Jervis and Sechelt Inlets, the difference in water levels can exceed two metres, causing currents of more than 30 km per hour. Several unwary vessels have been lost in the cavernous whirlpools. The word "skookum" is the Sechelt Natives' term for strong, "chuck" means water - an apt name for this impressive natural phenomenon. Skookumchuck Narrows Park is just past Egmont. Follow the easy 4-km trail in from the parking lot to this spectacular sight, but check the viewing tide tables on the Sechelt Visitor Information Web Site first to ensure maximum viewing times.
Explorations of nearby Inlets, the Skookumchuck by boat, and the world-famous Princess Louisa Inlet all depart from the marina at the Egmont Marina Resort (hang a left at the park just as you enter Egmont and drive out a short road).
PRINCESS LOUISA MARINE PROVINCIAL PARK
Official BC Parks Princess Louisa web site
READING LIST: Through the Rapids: The History of Princess Louisa Inlet, by Charles W. Hitz, is a great read and is available on Amazon.com
Jervis Inlet, a fifty-mile-long fjord bounded by mile-high mountain walls, divides the Sechelt Peninsula from the northern Sunshine Coast and Powell River. Not a passage for careless boaters, the waters of this inlet are to be respected. They are very deep and often rough with typhoon-force winds of the "Jervis Express." The granite rock walls offer no shelter.
Jervis leads into Princess Louisa Inlet, called Suivoolot ('sunny and warm') by the First Nations. James F MacDonald was the original purchaser of the land around the falls, but he passed it on to the Princess Louisa International Society in 1953. The Princess is famed for its awe-inspiring, pristine beauty, and was protected as a BC Park in June of 1965.
Author Erle Stanley Gardner had this to say about his favorite place on earth:
There is a calm tranquility which stretches from the smooth surface of the reflecting waters straight up into infinity. The deep calm of eternal silence is disturbed only by the muffled roar of throbbing waterfalls as they plunge down from sheer cliffs. There is no scenery in the world that can beat it. Not that I've seen the rest of the world. I don't need to. I've seen Princess Louisa Inlet.
Chatterbox Falls, at he head
of the Inlet, is a stunning natural wonder not to be missed on
a Sunshine Coast tour (Sunshine Coast Tours makes regular scheduled
day trips up to the Inlet, with narrated commentary). You can
see Indian pictographs (rock paintings) that have lasted centuries.
And look for Malibu Lodge at the entrance to Princess Louisa.
Originally built as a luxury resort for Hollywood movie stars,
it later became a summer youth camp. For history buffs and story
lovers, this link will take you to the legend
of Princess Louisa Inlet.
The size of the park is a stunning 964 hectares and encompasses the narrows, gorge and falls together.
- The Skookumchuck Heritage Society received $225,578 towards the construction of an interpretive center and museum that will now houses logging and fishing artifacts from the historic Egmont community. The total project cost is $484,156.
- The interpretive centre and museum houses and preserve a unique collection of historic forestry artifacts and community history. It provides a tourism opportunity as well as visitor services for hikers interested in viewing the famous natural ocean tidal wave phenomenon unique to the Skookumchuck narrows.
Contact: ehc@xplornet.com
