Places to stay in Port Alberni, British Columbia

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Hospitality Inn Port Alberni

Hotels: The Hospitality Inn is located in the heart of Port Alberni and offers a unique blend of comfort, charm and professional service to all of our guests. A cozy fireplace in the lobby welcomes you to our charming Tudor-style inn. Our recently upgraded guest and bathrooms with modern amenities ensure a .....

3835 Redford Street, V9Y 3S2, (+001) 250-723-8111

Lakewoods Bed & Breakfast

Inns / B&Bs: We welcome adult travellers to our peaceful waterfront home, in a garden setting overlooking beautiful Sproat Lake. We invite you to enjoy a swim before turning in, or before we serve you a full home made breakfast. Visit Historical McLean's, Mill, a steam driven sawmill in working order. We speak .....

9778 Stirling Arm Cres., V9Y 9C7, (+001) 250-723-2310

Best Western Barclay Hotel

Hotels: The Best Western Barclay Hotel is centrally located in the beautiful Alberni Valley on Vancouver Island. A scenic one hour's drive from the BC Ferry terminal in Nanaimo, and 100 kilometers from Pacific Rim National Park. The Best Western Barclay Hotel is a full service, AAA Triple Diamond facility .....

4277 Stamp Avenue, V9Y7X8, (+001) 250-724-7171

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Port Alberni is a city located in the province of British Columbia in Canada. It is the seat of the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District. Port Alberni lies within the Alberni Valley at the head of the Alberni Inlet, Vancouver Island's longest inlet. The other end of the inlet is located on Barkley Sound, Clayoquot Sound. Port Alberni has been dubbed the "Salmon Capital of the World", a distinction also claimed by nearby Campbell River. Port Alberni is sister-city to Abashiri in northern Japan.

Port Alberni was named for Captain Don Pedro de Alberni, a Spanish officer, who commanded the fort at Nootka on Vancouver Island's west coast from 1790 to 1792. Alberni and the West Coast of Vancouver Island is the traditional territory of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Nation.

The first European settlers in the area were with the Anderson Company (a sawmilling company) from London, England in 1860. The original mill failed but several others were established in the 1880s. It was the first sawmill in BC. Port Alberni was incorporated in 1912 with the arrival of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, and planned arrival of the Canadian National Railway, and the Trans-Pacific telegraph cable at Bamfield. Mining took place on the Alberni Canal, as with many fish camps and outports that depended on Port Alberni as a base.

The forest industry was the dominant force, with prime cedar and Douglas fir tracts nearby. Large logging operators moved in namely Bloedel, Stewart and Welch. Sawmills were built at Alberni, Great Central Lake, and the MacLean Mill. By the second world war plywood mills and a nascent pulp industry started. For the next forty years, the forest industry reigned supreme. MacMillan Bloedel Limited became the large lumber player in the valley.

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• Sproat Lake - 3 km
• Kleecoot - 3 km
• Cameron Lake - 12 km
• Bowser* - 12 km
• Dunsmuir - 12 km
• Fanny Bay* - 13 km
• Dashwood - 16 km
• Coombs* - 16 km
• Hornby Island* - 17 km
• Union Bay* - 17 km
• Qualicum Beach* - 18 km
• Qualicum Bay* - 18 km
• Denman Island* - 18 km

Towns are shown withing 20km radius of Port Alberni, British Columbia. Distances are not representive of traveling amounts. Towns marked * indicated accommodations listed.