Egmont

Littlest Community but Biggest Heart!

Downtown egmont post office
Downtown Egmont at the Post Office

Great places to explore in the Egmont area are Downtown Egmont (we capitalize it in respect of its tiny and unique heritage and feel), pictured above. There is nothing like wandering through the park, hall, store and Bathgates and the Backeddy to give you a feel for old-time Sunshine Coast living, with its lack of car traffic, slow pace, friendly people and a sense of a place out of time.

Egmont Community Hall & Thrift Store

Places to Stay in the Egmont area include:

Did you know?
Where Egmont got it's name...
Egmont is named after the HMS Egmont. Rear Admiral Sir John Jervis helmed the HMS Egmont at the Battle of St. Vincent in the 1700s!

There's a song named after Egmont...?
Mad Pudding's Grand Hotel album: The Egmonster
Can you believe the serendipity? Our family was just about to head on an adventure to Egmont and stopped at the St. Hilda's Whale of A Sale and picked up the Grand Hotel CD for a cool $.25, and found The Egmonster on it. Egmont really is in its own parallel universe.

Egmont Totem Pole
Totem & View, Egmont Marina

Important Dates:
Egmont Day is held annually every June and is a community-wide celebration with arts & crafts, family fun and games, and a popular Saturday Night Dance. There was some discrepancy about dates since both the 3rd and 10th have been in circulation but we have it on Ultimate Authority (Betty at the Post Office, also on the Egmont Day Committee) that it is June 10th, 2006! So there.

Egmont Thrift Store

Near Egmont, are the tidal rapids at Skookumchuck Narrows, one of the most exciting sights on the Coast. As tidal waters are forced through the narrow, shallow channel between Jervis and Sechelt Inlets, the difference in water levels can exceed two metres, causing currents of more than 30 km per hour. Several unwary vessels have been lost in the cavernous whirlpools. The word "skookum" is the Sechelt Natives' term for strong, "chuck" means water - an apt name for this impressive natural phenomenon. Skookumchuck Narrows Park is just past Egmont. Follow the easy 4-km trail in from the parking lot to this spectacular sight, but check the viewing tide tables on the Sechelt Visitor Information Web Site first to ensure maximum viewing times.

Explorations of nearby Inlets, the Skookumchuck by boat, and the world-famous Princess Louisa Inlet all depart from the marina at the Egmont Marina Resort (hang a left at the park just as you enter Egmont and drive out a short road). Tours are available with Sunshine Coast Tours.

Jervis Inlet, a fifty-mile-long fjord bounded by mile-high mountain walls, divides the Sechelt Peninsula from the northern Sunshine Coast and Powell River. Not a passage for careless boaters, the waters of this inlet are to be respected. They are very deep and often rough with typhoon-force winds of the "Jervis Express." The granite rock walls offer no shelter. Jervis leads into Princess Louisa Inlet, called Suivoolot by the Natives. The Princess is famed for its awe-inspiring, pristine beauty. Author Erle Stanley Gardner described it like this:

There is a calm tranquility which stretches from the smooth surface of the reflecting waters straight up into infinity. The deep calm of eternal silence is disturbed only by the muffled roar of throbbing waterfalls as they plunge down from sheer cliffs. There is no scenery in the world that can beat it. Not that I've seen the rest of the world. I don't need to. I've seen Princess Louisa Inlet.

Chatterbox Falls, at he head of the Inlet, is a stunning natural wonder not to be missed on a Sunshine Coast tour (Sunshine Coast Tours makes regular scheduled day trips up to the Inlet, with narrated commentary). You can see Indian pictographs (rock paintings) that have lasted centuries. And look for Malibu Lodge at the entrance to Princess Louisa. Originally built as a luxury resort for Hollywood movie stars, it later became a summer youth camp. For history buffs and story lovers, this link will take you to the legend of Princess Louisa Inlet.

Note: Coming for Egmont!

Skookumchuck Heritage Society - Egmont

The Skookumchuck Heritage Society will receive $225,578 towards the construction of an interpretive center and museum that will house logging and fishing artifacts from the historic Egmont community. The total project cost is $484,156.
The interpretive centre and museum will house and preserve a unique collection of historic forestry artifacts and community history. It will provide a tourism opportunity as well as visitor services for hikers interested in viewing the famous natural ocean tidal wave phenomenon unique to the Skookumchuck narrows.

Contact: Allan Mulholland (604) 885-1959
Community Futures Development Corporation of the Sunshine Coast

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