(36 miles south of Radium Junction, Highway 93/93)

In 1808 David Thompson named this flat ‘McGillivray’s Portage’ as he crossed from Columbia Lake to the Kootenay River.  In 1889 WA Baillie-Grohman joined the two waterways by a canal with a single lock.  Regulations aimed at preventing Columbia River flooding so restricted the operation of the canal that only two steamboats passed through – the Gwendoline in 1894 and the North Star in 1902.