Bella Coola

Bella Coola (52˚23'00" 126˚45'00" Head of N Bentinck Arm, E of Burke Channel and Bella Bella), Bella Coola River (Flows W into N Bentinck Arm). Bella Coola is a Heiltsuk First Nation name for the aboriginal inhabitants of the area, who call themselves the Nuxalk people, after their term for the Bella Coola valley. The name appears as Billichoola in the 1834 journal of HBC trader and medical officer William Fraser Tolmie, and it has also been recorded as Bellaghchoola, Bellichoola, Belhoola...

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