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Anyox, British Columbia. Anyox was a small company-owned mining town in British Columbia, Canada. [1] Today it is a ghost town, abandoned and largely destroyed.It is located on the shores of Granby Bay in coastal Observatory Inlet, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) southeast of (but without a land link to) Stewart, British Columbia, and about 20 kilometres (12 miles), across wilderness east of ...
British Columbia: N/A Named for Ioánnis Fokás, a Greek explorer who sailed in the service of Spain, and whose name was translated into Spanish as "Juan de Fuca". Forms part of the boundary between the Canadian province of British Columbia and the American state of Washington. [6] [7] [8] Lobo: Ontario "wolf" Township now amalgamated into ...
Santa Cruz de Nuca (or Nutca) was a Spanish colonial fort and settlement and the first European colony in what is now known as British Columbia.The settlement was founded on Vancouver Island in 1789 and abandoned in 1795, with its far northerly position making it the "high-water mark" of verified northerly Spanish settlement along the North American west coast.
Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia. As of 2024, British Columbia has 161 municipalities, [1] out of which 53 are classified as cities. [2] According to the 2021 Canadian census, British Columbia is the third most populous province in Canada, with 5,000,879 inhabitants, and the second largest province by land area, covering 920,686.55 square kilometres (355,479.06 square miles).
The town of Port Renfrew is located on the southern shore of Port San Juan, near the outlet of the San Juan River. The inlet can be accessed from Victoria via Highway 14 , from Lake Cowichan via the Pacific Marine Circle Road, or by boat from the Strait of Juan de Fuca .
A view of English Bay and Downtown Vancouver from one of the Spanish Banks beaches. The North Shore over an exceptionally low spring tide.. Spanish Banks are a series of beaches in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located along the shores of English Bay in the West Point Grey neighbourhood.
When Spanish explorers arrived on the west coast of Canada, they named many of the features of what is now the Strait of Georgia.Bowen Island was called Isla de Apodaca (after the Mexican town of Apodaca, in northeast Nuevo León state, which was itself named after a benevolent bishop, Salvador de Apodaca y Loreto) by the Spanish Captain José María Narváez in July, 1791. [10]
A version has Mullard finding Spanish gold ingots, one of which was on public view during the 1980s at the B.C. Ministry of Mines Mineral Titles display, a claim disavowed by the Ministry. Rumours of a heavy Spanish bronze cannon sighted in the swamps of Jordan Meadows have also circulated. [32] [33] [34]