Ingenika Airport | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Operator | British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Aviation Duty Officer | ||||||||||
Location | Ingenika Settlement, Tsay Keh Dene First Nation, British Columbia | ||||||||||
Time zone | PST (UTC−08:00) | ||||||||||
• Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC−07:00) | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 2,230 ft / 680 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 56°47′26″N124°53′48″W / 56.79056°N 124.89667°W | ||||||||||
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Source: Canada Flight Supplement [1] |
Ingenika Airport( TC LID : CAP6) is the old airfield of the Tsay Keh Dene First Nation, located near Ingenika Point at the head of Williston Lake in northern British Columbia. Tsay Keh Airport is the primary air strip for the community, but Ingenika Airport is maintained as an alternative.
Sekani or Tse’khene are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group in the Northern Interior of British Columbia. Their territory includes the Finlay and Parsnip River drainages of the Rocky Mountain Trench. The neighbors of the Sekani are the Babine to the west, Dakelh to the south, Dunneza (Beaver) to the east, and Kaska and Tahltan, to the north, all Athabaskan peoples. In addition, due to the westward spread of the Plains Cree in recent centuries, their neighbors to the east now include Cree communities.
Williston Lake is a reservoir created by the W. A. C. Bennett Dam and is located in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.
Tsay Keh Airport is a registered aerodrome located on the banks of the Finlay River in British Columbia, Canada. The older Ingenika Airport nearby is no longer in regular use, but is maintained as an alternative, since visibility is sometimes acceptable there when it is not at Tsay Keh Airport.
Daniel Chester Forest Sims is a Canadian historian specializing in the history of northern British Columbia. Born and brought up in Prince George, he is a member of the Tsay Keh Dene First Nation. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Alberta in 2017 with a dissertation, nominated for the Governor-General's Gold Medal, entitled Dam Bennett: The Impact of the W. A. C. Bennett Dam and Williston Lake Reservoir on the Tsek'ehne of Northern British Columbia.
The Tsay Keh Dene First Nation is one of the Sekani bands of the Northern Interior of British Columbia. Tsay Keh Dene means "People of the Mountain". While they have an office in the City of Prince George, their territories, settlements, and Indian Reserves are all to the north, in the area of Williston Lake, the creation of which flooded a large part of their territory with devastating effects on the people and their way of life.
Duncan Lake – known as Amazay in Sekani– is a natural 6 km (3.7 mi)-long wilderness fish-bearing lake with rainbow trout and whitefish populations, located at the headwaters of the Findlay watershed. in the Omineca Mountains of the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. The Finlay River