Windermere Lake (British Columbia)

Coordinates: 50°27′N 116°00′W / 50.450°N 116.000°W

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Windermere Lake

Windermere Lake
Location	British Columbia
Coordinates	50°27′N 116°00′W / 50.450°N 116.000°W / 50.450; -116.000
Primary inflows	Columbia River
Primary outflows	Columbia River
Basin countries	Canada

Surface area	1,610 ha (4,000 acres)^[1]
Average depth	3.4 metres (11 ft)^[1]
Max. depth	6.4 metres (21 ft)^[1]
Shore length¹	36 km (22 mi)^[1]
Surface elevation	798 m (2,618 ft)^[1]

Settlements	Windermere, Invermere
¹ Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Lake Windermere (or Windermere Lake) is a very large widening in the Columbia River. The village of Windermere is located on the east side of the lake, and the larger town of Invermere is located on the lake's northwestern corner. The average depth of the lake is only 15 feet (4.6 m).

Lake Windermere is a popular vacationing spot, especially for residents of Calgary, which is a three-hour car drive to the east. The western side of the lake which fronts the Purcell Mountains has a railroad running along its shore, and as a result, housing and recreational development is minimal there. The eastern side of the lake has a more extensive flatland between the lake and the Rocky Mountains and has experienced considerable development including cottages, camping grounds, recreational beaches, golf courses and various tourist attractions.

Windermere Lake was once known as Lower Columbia Lake, and will be seen as such on older maps of the area.^[2] It was given its current name by G.M. Sproat in 1902 because it resembled Lake Windermere in the English Lake District.^[3]^: 297

Lake Windermere Whiteway

The longest ice skating trail can be found on the Lake Windermere Whiteway. The naturally frozen trail measures 29.98 kilometres (18.63 mi).^[4] When Guinness Book of World Records verified the record in 2014, the ice measured between 12 inches (30 cm) and 30 inches (76 cm) depending where you were in one of the four loops that runs continuously around the lake.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "The Importance of Windermere Lake & its Watershed" (PDF). Bclss.org. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
^ [1]
^ Akrigg, G.P.V.; Akrigg, Helen B. (1986), British Columbia Place Names (3rd, 1997 ed.), Vancouver: UBC Press, ISBN 0-7748-0636-2
^ "Longest ice skating trail". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 29 July 2014.

v t e Steamboats of the Columbia River headwaters
Steamboats	Duchess (1886) Duchess (1888) Marion (1888) Pert (1890) Annerly (1892) Hyak (1892) Gwendoline (1893) Selkirk (1895) Rustler (1896) Ruth (1896) J.D. Farrell (1897) North Star (1897) Ptarmigan (1903) Isabella McCormack (1908) Klahowya (1910) Nowitka (1911) F.P. Armstrong (1913)
Motor vessels	Invermere (1912)
Landings	Golden Parson Spillimacheen Edgewater Radium Hot Springs Athalmer Invermere Windermere Fairmont Hot Springs Canal Flats Wasa Fort Steele Jennings, Montana Libby, Montana
Canals	Baillie-Grohman Canal
Companies	Upper Columbia River Nav. & Tramway Co. Kootenay River Navig. Co.
Geography	Columbia River Kootenay River Columbia Valley Spillimacheen River Canal Flats
Personnel	Frank P. Armstrong James D. Miller William A. Baillie-Grohman
Railways	Canadian Pacific Railway (mainline)
BC steamboats	Upper Fraser, Nechako and Stuart Rivers Skeena River Arrow Lakes and Columbia River Slocan Lake Kootenay Lake Columbia Lake-East Kootenay Lakes Route (Seton, Anderson and Lillooet Lakes) Lake Okanagan Skaha Lake Thompson-Shuswap Stikine River Peace & Finlay Rivers Steamboats of the Inside Passage Gulf of Georgia-Lower Fraser
NW steamboats	Columbia River Oregon Coast Willamette River Yaquina Bay and River Coquille River Cowlitz River Puget Sound Lake Washington Grays Harbor Chehalis River Hoquiam River Willapa Bay Columbia River (Wenatchee Reach) Lake Crescent Lower Kootenai River Upper Kootenai River

Hydrography of British Columbia

Rivers

Lakes

Coastal features

Haida Gwaii	Cumshewa Inlet Darwin Sound Laskeek Bay Masset Inlet Rennell Sound Skidegate Channel Skidegate Inlet
North Coast	Arthur Passage Burke Channel Chatham Sound Dixon Entrance Douglas Channel Finlayson Channel Fisher Channel Fitz Hugh Sound Gardner Canal Grenville Channel Hecate Strait Juan Perez Sound Lama Passage Laredo Channel Milbanke Sound Portland Inlet Prince Rupert Harbour Princess Royal Channel Principe Channel Queen Charlotte Sound Rivers Inlet Seaforth Channel Smith Inlet Smith Sound Wright Sound
Central Coast	Belize Inlet Bute Inlet Call Inlet Cordero Channel Drury Inlet Frederick Arm Goletas Channel Johnstone Strait Kingcome Inlet Knight Inlet Loughborough Inlet Nodales Channel Phillips Arm Pryce Channel Queen Charlotte Strait Seymour Inlet Sutlej Channel Wells Passage
Salish Sea	Active Pass Baynes Sound Boundary Bay Boundary Pass Burrard Inlet Calm Channel Captain Passage Desolation Sound Discovery Passage Haro Strait Homfray Channel Hoskyn Channel Howe Sound Jervis Inlet Malaspina Strait Okisollo Channel Port San Juan Ramsay Arm Saanich Inlet Sansum Narrows Satellite Channel Sechelt Inlet Stuart Channel Strait of Georgia Strait of Juan de Fuca Sutil Channel Toba Inlet Trincomali Channel Victoria Harbour
Vancouver Island	Barkley Sound Brooks Bay Checleset Bay Clayoquot Sound Hansen Bay Kyuquot Sound Nootka Sound Pachena Bay Quatsino Sound San Josef Bay

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Lake Windermere Whiteway

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