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Lake began logging operations around nearby Puntzi Lake and a portable mill was used throughout the area. Eventually sited at the extreme eastern end of the lake, the operation ran until August 1964 when it relocated to a spot about fifty kilometers back north into the bush at
Chezacut. Following a particularly severe winter, with temperatures as extreme as 70 degrees F below zero, Pinnette and Therrien transferred their operation back to Chilanko Forks. The mill was then situated at the junction of the old highway and the base access road near Skinner Bridge (a name which has since evolved into Skinny Bridge - even though the bridge itself no longer exists). Relocation was undertaken in March 1965. It was at this time that Pinnette and Therrien phased out its logging operation in the area in favour of contracting the work to Illnicki Logging of Williams Lake. In 1966 a planer mill was added to the operation. In 1971 operations ceased following a mill fire.
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various loops and a branch road while one of the roads originally surveyed in 1963 has (East of Puntzi
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Sawmill workers (1963â1971) also lived there until mill operations ceased though steady changes in logging operations meant constantly fluctuating population numbers for
Chilanko Forks, at least along the roads near to, or leading to, the airbase. Beginning in 1963 Pinnette and Therrien of Williams
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Each of the above changes/developments had significant effects on the size of the population of
Chilanko Forks. The size of the aboriginal population was not impacted by these events. Currently the area nearest the airstrip is clustered along two main roads that lead off the highway, and other
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Dial phone systems began operating in the community on July 27, 1988. The current
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in Canada, and the highest variation in
British Columbia. The diurnal temperature variation in both February and May is the highest in Canada.
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Unincorporated community in British Columbia, Canada
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741:wind chill
208:Tatla Lake
82:52°07â˛00âłN
1029:March 14,
214:, in the
170:Elevation
164:Chilcotin
1050:March 9,
928:See also
860:Average
855:(10.81)
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129:Province
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344:humidex
257:Climate
230:History
218:of the
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110:Country
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609:(1.9)
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298:Month
160:Region
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