Glenora, also known historically as the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Glenora[1] and during the Cassiar Gold Rush as Glenora Landing,[2] was an unincorporated settlement in the Stikine Country of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It was located on the banks of the Stikine River, just southwest and approximately 13 miles downstream from the community of Telegraph Creek.[3] A customs office existed 1901–1903.[4]
Helen B. Akrigg and G.P.V. Akrigg in their British Columbia Place Names ascribe the origin of the name to a combination of the Gaelic glenn for "valley" with the Spanish ora for gold.[3]
Association with John Muir
In his final book, Travels in Alaska, naturalist John Muir describes a steamboat journey he made up the Stickeen (Stikine) River from the town of Wrangell in 1879 to "the old Hudson's Bay trading post at Glenora." The area's chief feature of interest to him was "an outstanding group of (unnamed) mountains crowning a spur from the main chain of the Coast Range," at a distance of "about seven or eight miles" from the post. "Though the time was short I determined to climb it," he wrote, "because of the advantageous position it occupied for general views of the peaks and glaciers of the east side of the great range."[5]
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