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Stikine is a provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada established by the Electoral Districts Act, 2008. It came into effect upon the dissolution of the BC Legislature in April 2009, and was first contested in the 2009 provincial election. It will next be contested in the 2013 provincial election.
Stikine, meaning "great river" in the Tlingit language, may refer to:
Geography and locations- the Stikine River, a major river in British Columbia and Alaska
- Stikine Strait, a marine waterway in Alaska offshore from the mouth of the Stikine River, near Wrangell, Alaska
- Fort Stikine, a trading post and fortification of the Hudson's Bay Company at what is now Wrangell, Alaska
- the Stikine Country, aka the Stikine District, a geographic region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, roughly equivalent to the Stikine Mining Division aka Stikine Mining District of the British Columbia Dept. of Mines
- the Stikine Plateau, a large regional landform in northwestern British Columbia, inclusive of the Stikine and Taku River basins
- the Stikine Ranges, a major subgrouping of the Cassiar Mountains of northern British Columbia
- Stikine, British Columbia, aka Boundary, an unincorporated locality and former customs post on the lower Stikine River
- Stikine River Provincial Park, a provincial park protecting the Grand Canyon of the Stikine River
- Stikine Hot Springs, a hot spring on the lower Stikine River protected by Choquette Hot Springs Provincial Park
- the Stikine Volcanic Belt, a subgrouping of volcanoes within the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province in British Columbia
- the Stikine Icecap, a large icefield in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains, spanning the British Columbia-Alaska border
- Stikine-LeConte Wilderness, a park in the Alaska Panhandle
- Tongass/Stikine National Forest, aka the Tongass National Forest, a US national forest in Alaska
- the Stikine Territory, formally the Stickeen Territories, a former British overseas territory established in 1861, absorbed into the Colony of British Columbia in 1863
- the Stikine Region, an administrative region of the Canadian province of British Columbia
- the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, a regional district in northwestern British Columbia
- Stikine (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in northwestern British Columbia
- Stikine people (Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan), a ḵwáan or regional group of the Tlingit
Usage examples of "stikine".
His objective lay east of the head of the Naas proper, where amid a wild tangle of mountains and mountain torrents three turbulent rivers, the Stikine, the Skeena, and the Naas, took their rise.
In the north-western part of the province the Skeena flows south-west into the Pacific, and still farther to the north the Stikine rises in British Columbia, but before entering the Pacific crosses the coast strip of Alaska.
His hiding place was a great rectangle, ten thousand miles square, ajumble of mountains and muskegs, lakes and trenches, rivers and canyons, forest and plateau stretching from the Nass River in the west to the Omineca mountains in the east, from the Stikine in the north to the Nechako in the south.
Murray would come down from the Stikine country, cross the watershed of the Upper Skeena, checking the cabins of the old Yukon telegraph line as they went.
In March 1912, Frank Chettleburgh, a prospector, was staking claims in the Stikine country aided by a Kispiox Indian guide.
Coast Range by May, in a wild and forbidding region where three major streams--the Skeena, the Stikine, and the Naas--take their rise.
And on either side the traffic lane there swept a stream of people like the current of the Stikine River.