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Grand Rapids, British Columbia

human settlement in British Columbia, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ14874603 ↗
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Grand Rapids is a Dakelh community northwest of Fort St. James, British Columbia, Canada, located at the confluence of the Tachie and Kuzkwa Rivers near Trembleur Lake. It is on the site of Kuz Che Indian Reserve No. 5, formerly named Grand Rapide IR No. 5. Nearby is Tsay Cho IR No. 5, formerly named Stevan IR No. 4. These reserves are under the administration of the Tl'azt'en Nation. Kuz Che is an anglicization of the Carrier name, which is K'uz̲che.

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“Grand Rapids, British Columbia” enters the record as human settlement in British Columbia, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Grand, Rapids and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14874603. Authority coordinates are 54.783, -124.883. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Grand Rapids, British Columbia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.