Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In addition to regular summer camps, Young Life operates 6 "adventure" camps which offer campers and their leaders unique outdoor-based experiences. In "Base Camp Adventures", campers stay in yurts or cabins while participating in daily activities whereas "Trail Adventures" allows for campers to participate in backpacking-based camping. [13]
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 ...
Vancouver International Airport (YVR), located on Sea Island, which is part of Richmond, to the north of Lulu Island, provides most of the air access to the region. Several float plane companies (including Salt Spring Air, Harbour Air and Seair Seaplanes) operate from the south terminal, providing service to the Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island.
The list of provincial parks of Vancouver Island contains the provincial parks located on the island, which is part of the province of British Columbia. It includes parks from the seven regional districts of Alberni-Clayoquot , Capital , Comox Valley , Cowichan Valley , Nanaimo , and the island portions of Mount Waddington and Strathcona .
Black Creek is a community on the eastern side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.It is approximately 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of Courtenay.It is primarily an agricultural hamlet and bedroom community to Courtenay and Campbell River - approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) to the north.
Attendees of summer camps often enjoy outdoor activities. A summer camp, also known as a sleepaway camp or residential camp, is a supervised overnight program for children conducted during the summer vacation from school in many countries. Children and adolescents who attend summer residential camps are known as campers. They generally are ...
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.
Stuart Island is one of the Discovery Islands of British Columbia, which lie between northern Vancouver Island and the British Columbia Coast. It is privately owned and has no ferry access. It is situated at the mouth of Bute Inlet [1] to the east of the larger Sonora Island within Electoral Area C of the Strathcona Regional District.