Port Alice, British Columbia, Canada

Port Alice is an attractive, well-planned village named after Alice Whalen, whose family operated three local pulp mills in the 1920's. In 1965, Port Alice became B.C.'s first instant municipality. The new townsite was built to replace the original company town 4 km up the inlet.

Port Alice bears a remarkable resemblance to Port Annie, the fictional town described by Vancouver Island author Jack Hodgins in his novel "The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne".

The village has a shopping area, a hotel, RV campsite, liquor store, hospital, library, excellent restaurants, fuel facility, boat launch and yacht club. There is a fully-equipped recreational complex with weight room, hockey rink and curling ice. In summer, an indoor swimming pool is installed in the arena.

Population: 821

Location: Port Alice is located on Neroutsos Inlet, southwest of Port McNeill, off the Island Highway 19.

Port Alice is a popular spot for hiking, with good fishing and sightseeing out in Quatsino Sound and nearby Alice and Victoria lakes. Campsites and a boat launch are located in the mill town of Port Alice, where you'll find full facilities for exploring the profusion of sheltered inlets in Quatsino Sound.

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Take a serious 8-hour hike (no fresh water, no facilities, no signs) from Mahatta River to the open Pacific at Lawn Point.

Drive backroads to the ancient Quatsino limestone formation and unique natural wonders like the Devil's Bath and Eternal Fountain.

St. Paul's Anglican Church (1927) - one of the few churches in the world located in the middle of a golf course!

It's a pleasure to stroll around Port Alice, not just to admire the city but also to let your eyes drift across the landscape. Stroll along the Seawalk, a scenic path along the shores of Neroutsos Inlet, ending at a beautiful picnic area where wilderness trails link the shore.

Port Alice is also a gateway to the West Coast of Vancouver Island. With a boat or kayak, normally inaccessible regions, such as Brooks Peninsula, can be accessed. This is a vast, windswept sea-sprayed section of Vancouver Island's northwest coast. The snout of Brooks Peninsula offers some protection from the winter storms that blow south from the Gulf of Alaska. Sea kayakers should beware the fury of the winds and surf that build around its protruding bulk. The rewards of making the journey are the solitude provided by the surroundings and the sight of magnificent stands of Sitka spruce, the only species of tree able to thrive under constant salt-and-magnesium-loaded spindrift that the winds whip from the tops of the swells and carry ashore in the breeze. In the sheltering forest, marbled murrelets nest in the deep moss that enshrouds the thick branches of the spruce. Herds of Roosevelt elk graze in the lush, green understorey, while black bears forage in the berry-laden bushes. If you are among the few visitors who make their way here each year, you will be treated to one of the last remaining enviroments on the west coast where logging has been held mercifully at bay. Brooks Peninsula Provincial Park is huge, 127,528 acres of wilderness that is best explored with the help of a guide.

Port Alice has been officially listed at London England in the Royal Horticultural Society's "Book of Registered Orchid Hybrids". The new orchid hybrid, a slipper-type flower is the result of crossing a complex hybrid Paphiopedilum "Western Sky" with a species Paphiopedilum appletonianum. This new genetic line is completely unique and its development in Port Alice puts our town's name into "Orchid History". Port Alice thanks Pat Diamond for this beautiful Orchid!

Golf: The 9-hole public golf course at Port Alice Golf & Country Club offers a good challenge by virtue of its setting on the side of a mountain, with narrow, tree-lined fairways and small greens. Before you tee off on hole number three, remember to climb the tower to see if the green is clear! Golf Vacations on Vancouver Island.

Marble River Provincial Park and recreation area offers great outdoor activities, with hiking trails leading down to the Marble River rapids. Marble River is known as one of the island's best steelhead fishing rivers.

It's advisable to get good logging road maps for the area as there are numerous points of interest accessible by road, including Devil's Bath and the fascinating Eternal Fountain, both part of the Quatsino karst formation.

Take a tour of the salmon hatcheries at Neroutsos Inlet and Marble River.

Harvy Cove, Gooding Cove, Side Bay, Le Mare Lake and O'Connell Lake are good places to head once you've packed the picnic hamper full of goodies.

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