page_title: Texada Island
section_title: Today
hierarchical_section_title: Texada Island / Today
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Texada Island ist die größte Insel in der Straße von Georgia English: Texada in the Strait
context_page_description: Texada Island is the largest island in the Strait of Georgia of British Columbia, Canada. Its northern tip is located about 8 kilometres southwest of the city of Powell River and west of the Sechelt Peninsula on the Sunshine Coast. A former mining and logging area, the island still has a few quarries and old logging roads. It is the largest of the Northern Gulf Islands at some 50 kilometres in length and 10 kilometres in width, with its length aligned along a northwest-southeast axis. The island is 300.45 square kilometres in land area and had a population of 1,053 in the 2011 census
  . The main settlements are Gillies Bay, Blubber Bay and Van Anda.
  Other islands in the archipelago are Lasqueti, Jedediah, Harwood, Nelson, Hernando, and Savary Islands. Texada is separated from the mainland and Nelson Island by Malaspina Strait on its northeast and from Lasqueti Island by Sabine Channel along its southwestern flank. Off its northwestern end it is separated from Harwood Island by Algerine Passage and is flanked by the Strait of Georgia on ¾ of its western side.
  Unlike all islands in the Strait of Georgia to the south and west, Texada Island is not part of the Islands Trust.
context_section_description: A regular ferry service links Powell River and the main ferry terminal at Blubber Bay.
  The first ferry to the island, after the discontinued Union steamships, was the Atrevida. The island has two stores, a library, Credit Union, gas station, elementary school, hotel, bed and breakfasts, The Ravenous Raven Restaurant, two museums, two firehalls, an R.C.M.P. Detachment, Ambulance station and two post offices. Located near Gillies Bay, Texada Island also has an airport (Call Sign YGB) with a 3,000-foot-long (910-metre) paved runway for private aircraft and scheduled services. There are parks, forests, lakes, beaches and mountains.  Parks include South Texada Island Provincial Park and Shelter Point Park.
  Texada has a combination of light and soil conditions suitable for market agriculture. Today, the island caters mainly to weekending tourists and hunting season. A sandcastle contest is held in the summer on the occasion of the lowest tide of the year in Gillies Bay.
  A BC Hydro 500 kV powerline known as the Cheekye-Dunsmuir Line was built in 1982 running east to west across the middle of the Island, linking two sections of underwater transmission line that deliver power to Vancouver Island. A FortisBC natural gas pipeline, built in 1989, runs from south to north, where it splits, providing gas to Powell River and Vancouver Island. The island has produced 5 million tons of limestone a year; however, recent economic factors have lowered demand.
caption: Texada Island
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