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This is a list of Canadian islands as ordered by area. It includes all 50 islands with an area greater than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). The total area of these islands is 1,545,444 km 2 .
Kyuquot (pronounced "ky YOO kit") is an unincorporated settlement and First Nations community located on Kyuquot Sound on northwestern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Meaning people of Kayukw in the Nuu-chah-nulth language, it is partly the community of the Kyuquot and Cheklesahht peoples, whose band government is the Kyuquot ...
According to early records, a trading post was established in this general area as early as 1799 by the North West Company, but it did not last very many years. In 1825, Peter Warren Dease of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) erected an outpost here as the staging area and winter quarters for Sir John Franklin's second Arctic expedition of 1825 ...
Mahone Bay is a bay on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada along the eastern end of Lunenburg County. The bay has many islands (potentially 365), [ 1 ] and is a popular sailing area. Since 2003 the Mahone Islands Conservation Association has been working to protect the natural environment of the bay.
Thus Melinoë is described as such not in order to be designated as a divinity of lower status, but rather as a young woman of marriageable age; the same word is applied to Hecate and Tethys (a Titaness) in their own Orphic hymns. [11] As an underworld "queen" (Basileia), Melinoë is at least partially syncretized with Persephone herself. [12]
Chonat Bay: "where coho salmon are found" in Kwak'wala; Chu Chua: the plural of the Secwepemc language word for "creek". Chuckwalla River: "short river" in Oowekyala. The nearby Kilbella River means "long river". Chukachida River; Chutine River: "half-people" in either the Tlinkit or Tahltan languages. The area's population was half-Tlingit and ...
Sointula is an isolated village on Malcolm Island in British Columbia, Canada.Lying between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland, northeast of Port McNeill and not far from Alert Bay, the island is part of the historic and present territory of the ‘Namgis First Nation.
Canadian English owes its very existence to important historical events, especially the Treaty of Paris of 1763.English was first spoken in Canada in the 17th century in seasonal fishing communities along the Atlantic coast, including the island of Newfoundland, and at fur trade posts around Hudson Bay. [2]