10347

$1,495,000

District Lot 215, Range 2, Coast District, PID 009-900-055
District Lot 1, Range 2, Coast District, PID 009-900-021
2 Foreshore Leases

District Lot 1 - $1,708.02 (2010)
District Lot 215 - $1,014.26 (2010)

No zoning.

Improvements are extensive including the fish plant, ice plant, net loft, houses, restaurant, office, store, warehouses, marine ways, fuel dock, tanks and much more in various stages of repair.

The opportunity to develop and operate Namu as an integral part of the coast is surely one of the great business and real estate opportunities available in BC today. Namu has the potential to be a cruise ship attraction on the coast as well as a major marine oriented recreational real estate development. The historical significance of Namu as the only site in BC that has been continuously inhabited for 10,000 years has excellent potential for attracting tourism. The restoration of the various buildings, houses, shops, stores, warehouses and subdivision or resale as strata title rental units is just the beginning of the possibilities. Potential sources of revenue and income include all the following and more: fuel dock, real estate development, marina, fishing lodge, resort, general store, liquor store, significant timber value.

Namu comprises 2 deeded parcels of land totaling 198 acres with about a mile of oceanfront plus foreshore leases. Some of the foreshore area has been filled and can most probably be purchased from the Province. It has deep water oceanfront with the potential to bring cruise ships to anchor or perhaps even construct a cruise ship dock or dock for the ferry. Improvements comprise a fuel dock and tank farm, ice plant, fish processing plant, net lofts, marine ways, machine shop, radio shop, general store, post office, liquor store numerous houses all in varied states of repair. There is a small amount of frontage on 2½ mile long Namu Lake. With beautiful sandy beaches and good trout fishing Namu Lake is a great fresh water recreation area and a perfect location for a fresh water float plane base.

The history of Namu is described below. More recently Namu was owned and operated by BC Packers Ltd. and until 1969 it served an important role as a fish processing plant and supply and repair center for the central coast fishing fleet. In the last few years Namu has fallen into disrepair and is in need of cleanup particularly the herring reduction plant much of which has fallen into the water. This historic site needs someone to step in and once again unlock the tremendous value that lies within this magnificent property.

Recently Namu has been home to a sport fishing lodge and could certainly be one again, it is an ideal location. There is potential for development, value in the timber and serious conservancy value.

The east side of Fitz Hugh Sound just south of Burke Channel in the Central Coast of British Columbia. Namu is in heart of the Central Coast salmon fishing ten miles from Hakai Pass now protected as the Hakai Pass Recreation Area and 32 miles north of Rivers Inlet.

Boat, float plane or ferry, the Discovery Coast Ferry will pick up and drop passengers off at Namu.

Timbered west coast rain forest. Part of District Lot 1 was logged a few years ago the remainder has significant timber value there is no cruise available it will be necessary for a buyer to determine volume and quality of timber as part of his due diligence investigation. Aerial photographs were taken prior to logging.

No services. Power was provided by diesel generators although there would appear to be potential for hydro power generation, phone service is by autotel.

HAKAI RECREATION AREA
Created in 1987, sets aside large parts of Hunter and Calvert islands, as well as the smaller islands and myriad waterways between the two. This recreation area is located approximately 130 km north of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island and 45 km south of Bella Bella. The nearest settlement is Namu on the mainland coast, 10 km across Fitz Hugh Sound. Mariners and fishermen are attracted from around the world to Hakai for is remoteness, wild beauty, and of course, for its famous sports fishing, especially the prized Chinook salmon. Each summer thousands of visitors arrive, either on private boats which can find anchorage in any number of the secluded bays, or by seaplane to one of the numerous resorts housed on land, in floating lodges or self-contained vessels. Encompassing 122,998 hectares of land and sea, Hakai Recreation Area is the largest provincial marine park on the BC Coast. From fully exposed shorelines to rolling, forested hills and 1,000 meter summits, the Recreation Area encompasses some of the most varied and scenic coastline in the province. Special features such as lagoons and reversing tidal rapids, beaches, all-weather anchorages and tombolos with its remote natural beauty make it an ideal area for boaters, anglers, kayakers, scuba divers and naturalists.

BELLA COOLA
Bella Coola lies at the head of a series of serpentine passages 65 miles from the main shipping lanes. The Bella Coola River carves its way through the Coast Mountains, and then opens into a broad flood plain before entering North Bentinck Arm. More then two thousand people live in the valley now, making their living in diverse ways. Commercial and sports fishing are important, as are logging and mixed farming. There is a twenty-five bed hospital which serves the area and daily scheduled air service to Vancouver.

SHEARWATER & BELLA BELLA
Shearwater has a multi-daily seabus service to a large grocery & liquor store, bank, Laundromat, showers and marine supplies, Post Office, new cement wharves and two airline companies. There is a hospital in Bella Bella (100 Miles north of Port Hardy). Bella Bella has a twice-weekly stop for B.C. Ferries, and in the summer of 1995 a new ramp to bring vehicles was built at Shearwater.

Fishing, cruising, kayaking, nature study, wildlife & nature photography, scuba diving.

Namu, initially was a summer fishing village of the Koeye people. It was deserted when John Clayton applied to purchase land at Namu and the Koeye River in 1882. Later, Robert Draney bought the Namu land from Clayton and in 1893 formed the Namu Canning Company. The Namu plant was a success, and in 1909 Draney expanded his operations by opening a sawmill to produce lumber for the large number of boxes necessary in those days for packing the tinned salmon, and also for locally-used building lumber. The sawmill operated until 1926, but after it was dismantled, part of the structure was used for many years as a net loft. Draney used lumber from his sawmill to build a new cannery in 1911.

The cannery site changed ownership several times and in 1928 BC Packers took it over. A reduction plant was erected in 1936, while the following year the cannery was doubled in size. In 1940, a large cold storage plant was constructed. In the 1960’s, two hundred people lived year-round at Namu and forty students attended the two-room school. Fifty families lived in the main community, which had its own districts, “Toonerville,” the lower part of town, and “Shaughnessy Heights,” a newer section. The company store supplied the necessities; the cafe provided a meeting place.

A major fire nearly destroyed Namu in January, 1962, it claimed the cannery building, the cold storage plant and other major buildings, the reduction plant was saved and was reopened for herring. The cannery was completely rebuilt but within a few years the economic situation had changed, the plant closed down in 1969.