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Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park in Parksville, British Columbia, is a 347-hectare park known for a long sandy beach that stretches nearly a kilometre at low tide, old-growth Douglas fir, abundant wildlife, and one of the province’s best-known campgrounds. Migratory birds, especially brant geese, use the beach as a spring staging area, while other animals including deer, raccoons, minks, squirrels, and otters are common. Its name comes from the Rath family, who homesteaded here and operated a private campground before the site became a provincial park in 1967. The park’s creation grew out of a disputed 1960s land-and-timber exchange that remained controversial until cancelled in 1974.
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