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Bull Harbour is a settlement in British Columbia, Canada. Bull Harbour is a settlement on Hope Island, just north of northern Vancouver Island across Goletas Channel. It has an estimated population of 2-20 people. The name Bull Harbour has been in use since at least 1841. The name likely comes from the large and fierce sea lions that frequent ...
New Caledonia was a fur-trading district of the Hudson's Bay Company that comprised the territory of the north-central portions of present-day British Columbia, Canada. Though not a British colony, New Caledonia was part of the British claim to North America. Its administrative centre was Fort St. James. [1] The rest of what is now mainland ...
William John Sutton (19 January 1859 – 9 May 1914) was a timberman, geologist, mineralogist, assayer, surveyor, lecturer, explorer, pioneer and promoter of Vancouver Island, British Columbia and stood twice in B.C. elections. William John Sutton (1859-1914)
"Bullfighting involves an extreme violence for childhood,” Gehad Madi, a member of the U.N.'s Committee for the Rights of the Child, told Spain's El Diario newspaper at the time. "Not only child ...
[citation needed] The Muchalaht, the Nuu-chah-nulth group in the area of the community of Gold River, on Vancouver Island, which is a community at the end of a fjord that drains the west coast of Vancouver Island, tell a story of Spanish arriving then burning the valley searching for gold. Prospectors searching the valley have found old crude ...
Wickaninnish (/ ˌ w ɪ k ə ˈ n ɪ n ɪ ʃ /; meaning "Nobody sits or stands before him in the canoe") was a chief of the Tla-o-qui-aht people of Clayoquot Sound, on what is now Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, in the 1780s and 1790s, during the opening period of European contact with the Pacific Northwest Coast cultures.
Colombia’s congress voted Tuesday to ban bullfights in the South American nation, delivering a serious blow to a centuries-old tradition that has inspired famous songs and novels but has become ...
San Josef Bay is a bay on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, in the province of British Columbia, Canada. [1] [2]It is located on the western coast of Vancouver Island between Cape Russell, [3] or Hanna Point, [4] and Cape Palmerston.