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Bute Inlet is a deep, narrow glacial fjord on the coast of British Columbia, stretching far inland through steep mountain wilderness and fed chiefly by the Homathko and Southgate rivers. Named for John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, it became linked in the colonial era to Alfred Waddington’s failed route to the Cariboo goldfields, a project whose collapse in 1864 followed violence involving Tsilhqot'in warriors led by Klattasine. Later rejected as a Canadian Pacific Railway route, the inlet has also seen modern disaster: in 2020, a huge landslide triggered a megatsunami that devastated salmon habitat. It remains within the traditional territories of several First Nations.
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