Site of Canada’s last volcano eruption is in an area of B.C. splendour


By Colin Perkel / The Canadian Press
About 2,000 people, one-third of the Nisga’a population, died in two villages in what is now northwestern British Columbia as a result of the Tseax eruption in about 1780. The catastrophe produced enough molten rock to smother the surrounding landscape, sparking raging fires in the lush forests, forever changing the course of the Nass River.…

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March 6, 2019

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