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They lived in Nanaimo with their families and worked 14-day shifts in camps on Newcastle Island. In 1862, the Hudson's Bay Company sold their coalfields, including Newcastle Island, to the Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company. This was shortly before workers struck over the continuing poor conditions of the Nanaimo and Newcastle Island mines.
West of Pine Island in Pine Island Sound 26°32′41″N 82°07′19″W / 26.544722°N 82.121944°W / 26.544722; -82.121944 ( Fish Cabin at White Rock St. James City
Keats Camps is a Baptist summer camp, founded in 1926 on the site of a former orchard, operated on 93 hectares of land on the west part of the island. Keats Landing grew up around the camp, on lots leased from the Baptist Convention of British Columbia. Because the majority of the island's summer visitors are Christians, Keats Camps hosts ...
Rock Bay, Menzies Bay, and Englewood all were big logging camps. After 1912, Campbell River became a supply point for northern Vancouver Island, Quadra Island, and Cortes Island. [7] The E and N Railway was surveyed to Campbell River, yet it only reached Courtenay, 64 km (40 mi) south.
Nanaimo (/ n ə ˈ n aɪ m oʊ / nə-NY-moh) is a city of about 100,000 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada."The Harbour City" was previously known as the "Hub City", which was attributed to its original layout design with streets radiating from the shoreline like the spokes of a wagon wheel, and to its relatively central location on Vancouver Island.
Belle Glade Camp was a former census-designated place (CDP) and current unincorporated place in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,141 at the 2000 census. The population was 1,141 at the 2000 census.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Islands of Florida. It includes Islands that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.The island is 456 km (283 mi) in length, 100 km (62 mi) in width at its widest point, [4] and 32,100 km 2 (12,400 sq mi) in total area, while 31,285 km 2 (12,079 sq mi) are of land.