Forbidden Plateau
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Coordinates: 49°41′00″N 125°19′00″W / 49.68333°N 125.31667°W | |
Location | British Columbia, Canada |
Part of | Vancouver Island Ranges |
Website | Strathcona Provincial Park: Forbidden Plateau Area |
The Forbidden Plateau is a small, hilly
Geography
The plateau features gently sloping sub-alpine terrain broken up by small, rugged hills and pitted with small lakes. Much of it is contained within
A sub-alpine meadow on Mount Becher in the southwest corner of the plateau is one of only a few sites in Canada of the
Geology
The plateau was the
The legend
According to the popular, though disproven, legend, when the
This legend, however, has no basis in K'ómoks history, a fact which has been documented by sources such as Comox Valley environmentalist Ruth Masters[5] and Pat Trask, curator at the Courtenay Museum.[6] Clinton Wood and Ben Hughes appear to be the creators of the false legend, the first record of which can be found in an article by Hughes in The Province newspaper in 1927. In a book published in 1967, Wood takes credit for the legend, stating that he believed a bit of mystery would help publicize the attraction of the plateau.
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Forbidden Plateau". BC Geographical Names.
- ^ Schaan, Gary. 2004. "Managing Towards the Gold Standard—Ecological Values of Second Growth Small Woodlands on Vancouver Island." In T.W. Droscher and D.A. Fraser (eds). Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference. CD-ROM or Online. Available: "RC03 Proceedings Introduction". Archived from the original on 2004-04-01. Retrieved 2006-07-14. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-02-21. Retrieved 2007-01-13.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) [February 2004] - ^ Derek Sidenius (1999-01-24). "Shake, Rattle and Roll in '46 Earthquake". Victoria Times Colonist Islander Magazine. Archived from the original on 2006-09-26. Retrieved 2006-07-14.
- ^ * Legends from British Columbia Communities Archived 2009-11-07 at the Wayback Machine The British Columbia Folklore Society. Accessed 6 September 2012.
- More to Nootka Sound than fishing Seattle Times. Accessed 6 September 2012.
- Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1970. Michael Dawson. University of British Columbia Pr (2005).
- ^ "Story of the Forbidden Plateau – Strathcona Wilderness Institute". strathconapark.org. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
- ^ "Finding Forbidden". CVC. 2016-02-02. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
Further reading
- Jenny Clayton, Alpine Island From the Forbidden Plateau to Mount Washington, skiing on central Vancouver Island dates to the 1920s Archived 2021-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
External links
Media related to Forbidden Plateau at Wikimedia Commons