{"id":124,"date":"2020-02-23T01:19:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T01:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keda.ca\/?page_id=124"},"modified":"2020-02-23T01:40:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T01:40:14","slug":"about-kitimat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/keda.ca\/about-kitimat\/","title":{"rendered":"About Kitimat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Located 63 KM from Terrace on the Northcoast of British\nColumbia, Kitimat is a district municipality. The District of Kitimat is a\nmember of the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine. Kitimat was founded in the\n1950s after the Government of British Columbia welcomed Alcan (now Rio Tinto)\nto develop an aluminum smelter. Before that, Kitimat was, and still is the home\nto the Haisla First Nation. (http:\/\/www.haisla.ca<\/a>).\nThe town of Kitimat was designed as an industry town that would help and\nattract industry workers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The word Kitimat in the Tsimshian language refers to \u201cPeople\nof the Snow.\u201d The area receives on average 300 centimetres of snow each year.\nThe climate in Kitimat is very mild and can tend to be rainy with average\ntemperature of 18 degrees Celsius in the Summer and -5 in the Winter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years Kitimat has seen different industries come\nand go including a methanol plant, and pulp and paper mill. Currently Kitimat\nis the centre of Canada\u2019s largest investment project \u2013 LNG Canada, which is\ncurrently under construction. There are several other proposed industrial\nprojects proposed for the area including other LNG export facilities, as well\nas a propane export facility.  Kitimat is\nhome to the largest privately owned port on the north coast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To find out more about Kitimat, visit these websites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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District of Kitimat<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tourism Kitimat<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Kitimat Chamber of Commerce<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Located 63 KM from Terrace on the Northcoast of British Columbia, Kitimat is a district municipality. The District of Kitimat is a member of the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine. Kitimat was founded in the 1950s after the Government of British Columbia welcomed Alcan (now Rio Tinto) to develop an aluminum smelter. Before that, Kitimat was, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keda.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keda.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keda.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keda.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keda.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/keda.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/keda.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keda.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}