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The Nanaimo Daily News was a Canadian daily newspaper published weekdays in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia for 141 years until ceasing publication in January 2016. The paper's final owner was Black Press, which also publishes the Alberni Valley Times and the Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle, and several other weekly newspapers on ...
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 ...
June 30, 2002. Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Status. Missing for 21 years, 11 months and 27 days. Height. 5 ft 4 in (163 cm) Lisa Marie Young was a 21-year-old Indigenous Canadian who disappeared from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada on June 30, 2002. [1] She had attended a local nightclub and two house parties, before accepting a ride to ...
Fiddelium ( / fɪˈdɛli.əm / [2]) is a youth fiddle group from Nanaimo, British Columbia, founded in 2011. [3] There are two tiers in the group; senior and junior. The senior group consists of 14 members between the ages of 12 and 18, [4] and an accompanist who acts as co-director alongside the director. The junior group is made up of 4 ...
Pacific Biological Station. The Pacific Biological Station (acronym: PBS) is a Research station in Departure Bay, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1908 (116 years ago), [1] with the Rev. George William Taylor as its first director and sole employee, [2] it is the oldest fisheries research centre on the Pacific coast.
Janet Anderson Craig Peterson (born on May 3, 1937, [1] in Strathaven, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish-Canadian non-fiction writer, historian, artist, and journalist. She's best known for her books about Vancouver Island, including those about the cities of Nanaimo and Port Alberni. Peterson has been featured in the Times Colonist [2] and ...
This is a list of nicknames and slogans of cities in Canada.Many Canadian cities and communities are known by various aliases, slogans, sobriquets, and other nicknames to the general population at either the local, regional, national, or international scales, often due to marketing campaigns and widespread usage in the media.
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.