Chowist Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of postal codes of Canada: V - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes_of...

    This is a list of postal codes in Canada where the first letter is V. Postal codes beginning with V are located within the Canadian province of British Columbia. Only the first three characters are listed, corresponding to the Forward Sortation Area (FSA). The V postal code area is currently the most utilized in Canada, with only four of the ...

  3. MV Sun Sea incident - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Sun_Sea_incident

    MV Sun Sea is a Thai cargo ship that brought 492 Sri Lankan Tamils into British Columbia, Canada, in August 2010. Following their arrival, the passengers—seeking refuge in Canada after the Sri Lankan Civil War—were transferred to detention facilities in the Lower Mainland, for which the Canadian Government would garner heavy criticism from various Canadian advocacy groups.

  4. Postal codes in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Sri_Lanka

    Postal codes in Sri Lanka. Postal codes in Sri Lanka are five digit numbers used by Sri Lanka Postal Service, that identifies each postal jurisdiction to sort mail more efficiently. They were first introduced in 1997. [1]

  5. Nanaimo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo

    Nanaimo (/ n ə ˈ n aɪ m oʊ / nə-NY-moh) is a city of about 100,000 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. "The Harbour City" was previously known as the "Hub City", which was attributed to its original layout design with streets radiating from the shoreline like the spokes of a wagon wheel, and to its relatively central location on Vancouver Island.

  6. Canadian postal abbreviations for provinces and territories

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_postal...

    Canadian provincial and territorial postal abbreviations are used by Canada Post in a code system consisting of two capital letters, to represent the 13 provinces and territories on addressed mail. These abbreviations allow automated sorting . ISO 3166-2:CA identifiers' second elements are all the same as these; ISO adopted the existing Canada ...

  7. Area codes 778, 236, and 672 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_codes_778,_236,_and_672

    Coordinates: 54°N 124°W. Area codes 778, 236, and 672 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of British Columbia. They form an overlay complex with area code 604, which serves only a small southwestern section, the Lower Mainland, of the province (including Vancouver ), and area code 250 ...

  8. Snuneymuxw First Nation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuneymuxw_First_Nation

    The Snuneymuxw First Nation (pronounced [snʊˈneɪməxʷ]) is located in and around the city of Nanaimo on east-central Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The nation previously had also occupied territory along the Fraser River, in British Columbia. Prior to European colonization of the Americas and the creation of Indian reserves in ...

  9. Postal codes in Canada - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Canada

    A Canadian postal code ( French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. [1] Like British, Irish and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters.