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Whose land we’re on, whose photos you see, and who built this website. Attribution where it’s due.
The City of Castlegar is located on the unceded traditional territory of the Sinixt (Lakes) People, who have lived in this valley since time immemorial. The pit-house archaeological sites at Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park predate the City by millennia.
We acknowledge and respect the Sinixt as the original inhabitants of this land and recognize their ongoing connection to it. We are grateful to live, work, and play on these lands, and committed to learning the histories written here long before us.
This website was designed and built pro-bono by KootenayMade.ca, a Kootenay-based web design studio. Built with Next.js, Sanity CMS, and Tailwind CSS. Hosted on Vercel.
Typography uses Satoshi for body text and General Sans for display headings, both licensed from Fontshare. Inter is used as a fallback.
The colour palette draws from the Kootenay landscape: confluence blue from where the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers meet, valley green from the surrounding forests, birch and snow from the seasons.
The City of Castlegar website uses photography sourced from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licenses, as well as images contributed by various community photographers. Each image is credited below with a link to its original source and license terms.
Fall colours along the Columbia River at Castlegar (homepage hero)
columbia-fall.jpg© Murray Foubister · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
Suspension footbridge to Zuckerberg Island Heritage Park
zuckerberg-island.jpg© under_volcano (Flickr) · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
Bridges over the Kootenay River near Castlegar
dam-bridges.jpgSeven Summits mountain bike trail, Castlegar
seven-summits.jpg© James Heilman (Jmh649) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Dove Hill panorama, Castlegar
dove-hill-pano.jpg© Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
These photos serve as placeholder imagery while the City of Castlegar builds its own official photo library. If you are a local photographer interested in contributing imagery to the city website, please get in touch.
The City of Castlegar acknowledges the support of the Province of British Columbia. Some data and resources used on this site are provided through provincial government programs and partnerships.