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(Oyster River School) 1924 Black Creek Opened in Oyster River in 1924 as Oyster River School to serve the logging community of the Comox Logging and Railway Company. The single-room school was located near Catherwood Road and the Island Highway. The school was moved to a location on the Oyster River in 1929 as the logging operation moved slightly.
Michigan's 103 state parks and recreation areas cover 306,000 acres (124,000 ha) with 14,100 campsites in 142 campgrounds and over 900 miles (1,400 km) of trails. [1] The state parks and recreation areas statewide collectively saw more than 26 million visits in 2016.
Cumberland is an incorporated village municipality east of Perseverance Creek, [1] near the east coast of central Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [2] The Comox Valley community is west of BC Highway 19 and is by road about 105 kilometres (65 mi) northwest of Nanaimo and 10 kilometres (6 mi) southwest of Courtenay .
A recreational vehicle park (RV park) or caravan park is a place where people with recreational vehicles can stay overnight, or longer, in allotted spaces known as "sites" or "campsites". They are also referred to as campgrounds , though a true campground also provides facilities for tent camping ; many facilities calling themselves "RV parks ...
The name is derived from that of the Pentlatch people.Their language, also called Pentlatch, was a Coast Salish language.The river was officially named by Robert Brown of the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition in 1854, after the people who lived along it, although Lieut. Mayne of the Royal Engineers had noted the name Puntluch River.
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.
Archaeological evidence suggests there was an active Coast Salish fishing settlement at Comox for at least 4,000 years. [6] Due to its gentle climate, fertile soil and abundant sea life, the Laich-kwil-tach conquerors of the area, and of the Kʼómoks, called the area kw'umuxws (Li'kwala for plentiful), which was eventually anglicized to Komoux and then to Comox.
The Island Comox of Vancouver Island now centered in the area of Courtenay-Comox, were historically the greatest and most powerful Kʼómoks group; both - Kʼómoks together with the neighboring Pentlatch (Puntletch / Puntledge) [2] - were referring in their original language to their cultural collective as Sathloot, [3] known to the Mainland ...