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The V postal code area is currently the most utilized in Canada, with only three of the 180 available urban FSAs not yet assigned. Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website, [ 1 ] via its mobile apps for such smartphones as the iPhone and BlackBerry , [ 2 ] and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs .
The lagoon was named by poet Pauline Johnson who liked to go canoeing on the tidal lagoon and one day discovered that it was no longer there due to a low tide. A large fountain called Jubilee Fountain graces the northeast end of the lagoon, spraying water in the air which can be seen for many blocks. The next controversy surrounding the lake ...
The Courtenay River is a short river on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, being the name of the channel from the confluence of the Puntledge and Tsolum Rivers, in the City of Courtenay, and its outlet into Comox Harbour, which is a part of the Strait of Georgia. [1]
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Royston is an unincorporated community that is part of the greater Comox Valley region, 100 km northwest of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. With a population of just over 1,500, it is next to the Trent River, across the harbour from Comox , and lies on the southeast municipal boundary of Courtenay .
Baynes Sound is the home of Vancouver Island University Center for Shellfish Research's Deep Bay Marine Field Station. Baynes Sound is the safest route by boats into Comox Harbour, avoiding the shallow Comox Bar between Denman Island and the Comox Peninsula.
The first settlers known in the area were members of the Kʼómoks (Island Comox) and related Coast Salish peoples. During the 18th century, a migration of Kwakwakaʼwakw (Kwakʼwala-speaking) people of the Wakashan linguistic and cultural group migrated south from the area of Fort Rupert. Establishing themselves in the Campbell River area ...
Courtenay (/ ˈ k ɔːr t n i / KORT-nee) [1] is a city of about 26,000 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in the Canadian province of British Columbia.It is the largest community and only city in the area commonly known as the Comox Valley, and the seat of the Comox Valley Regional District, which replaced the Comox-Strathcona Regional District.