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Fort Babine
Fort Babine, British Columbia (Wit'at) is a small native reserve community, located at the northern tip of Babine Lake, approximately 100 km north of Smithers.〔(BC Names/GeoBC entry "Fort Babine (community)" )〕 It is accessible by an all-weather gravel logging road. There are approximately 60 year-round residents. The community comprises five Indian reserves in the area, Babine Indian Reserve No. 16,〔(BC Names/GeoBC entry "Babine 16 (Indian reserve)" )〕 Babine Indian Reserve No. 6,〔(BC Names/GeoBC entry "Babine 6 (Indian reserve): )〕 Casdeded Indian Reserve No. 8,〔(BC Names/GeoBC entry "Casdeded 8 (Indian reserve)" )〕 No-Cut Indian Reserve No. 5,〔(BC Names/GeoBC entry "No-Cut (Indian reserve)" )〕 and Alphonse Tommy Indian Reserve No. 7.〔(BC Names/GeoBC entry "Alphonse Tommy (Indian reserve)" )〕
Rainbow Alley Provincial Park is located just north of Fort Babine, between the north end of Babine Lake and the south end of Nilkitkwa Lake.〔(BC Names/GeoBC entry "Rainbow Alley Park (provincial park) )〕
==Traditional name==
Fort Babine's traditional Babine name is "Wit'at," which is an abbreviated form of "Wit'ane Keh," "place of making dry fish." The name "Babine" comes from a French word for "pendulous lips" and refers to the fact that the native female inhabitants first encountered by Europeans had the practice of placing wooden labrets in their lips to enlarge them.
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