Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Highway 18 is a short main vehicle route in the Cowichan Valley Regional District on Vancouver Island, connecting the city of Duncan on the Trans-Canada Highway with the community of Lake Cowichan, on the shore of Cowichan Lake. [2] The highway first opened to vehicle traffic in 1953, and was re-routed to a straighter and wider alignment in 1970.
Duncan (pop. 5,047 in 2021) is a city on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is the smallest city by area (2.07 square kilometres, 0.8 square miles) in Canada. [ 1 ] It was incorporated in 1912.
The Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) runs from Victoria to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Then, after a ferry ride to the mainland, it continues from Horseshoe Bay , through the Vancouver area, Abbotsford , Hope , Kamloops , Salmon Arm , and Revelstoke to Kicking Horse Pass on the BC/ Alberta border.
Highway 1 travels through central Nanaimo on Nicol Street and Stewart Avenue to the Departure Bay ferry terminal, where the Vancouver Island section ends. [1] BC Ferries operates an automobile ferry service from Departure Bay to Horseshoe Bay that carries Highway 1 to the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. A typical vessel assigned to ...
Mount Sicker is in southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The twin summits of Big Sicker Mountain, [2] at 716 metres (2,349 ft), and Little Sicker Mountain, [3] at 660 metres (2,170 ft), are near Crofton, Chemainus and Duncan. [1] The name honours John J. Sicker, a homesteader in the area. [4]: 243
Westholme is a community located in the Chemainus River Valley alongside the Island Highway, between Chemainus and Duncan in British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Chemainus Land District in the District Municipality of North Cowichan. [1] Westholme is one of the original settlements on Vancouver Island.
Cowichan Bay (English: / ˈ k aʊ ɪ tʃ æ n /) [1] is a bay and community located on the west coast of southern Vancouver Island near Duncan, in British Columbia, Canada. The mouth of the Cowichan River is near Cowichan Bay. Mount Tzouhalem with its hiking trails and ecological reserve stands to the north.
The southern terminus of Highway 99 is at the Peace Arch Border Crossing on the international border between the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. state of Washington. [3] It is a continuation of Interstate 5, a freeway that continues south towards Seattle and major cities on the U.S. West Coast, ultimately ending near Tijuana ...