Stewart, British Columbia
District municipality in British Columbia, Canada
Stewart, British Columbia
Stewart is a district municipality at the head of the Portland Canal in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, near the Alaskan panhandle. In 2021, it had a population of 517. Founded as a mining town in the early 1900s, Stewart grew to about 10,000 people during a railway and mining boom in 1910–11 and shrank to 17 during the First World War. It is Canada's most northerly ice-free port and ships mineral concentrate from mines in northwestern British Columbia. The town is connected to the provincial highway network by Highway 37A and lies about 3 kilometres (2 mi) from Hyder, Alaska.
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