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Nanaimo ( Canada 2011 Census population 83,810) is a city on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is known as "The Harbour City." The City was previously known as the "Hub City" which has been attributed to its original layout design where the streets radiated out from the shoreline like the spokes of a wagon wheel as well as its generally centralized location on Vancouver Island. Nanaimo is also the headquarters of the Regional District of Nanaimo.

Nanaimo (electoral district)

Nanaimo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1979.

This riding was created as Nanaimo riding in 1903 from parts of Vancouver and Victoria ridings.

Its legal description when it was created was: "The electoral district of Nanaimo, comprising the provincial electoral districts of Cowichan, Esquimalt, Nanaimo City, Newcastle, Saanich and The Islands."

Nanaimo electoral district was renamed Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands in 1962.

Nanaimo (provincial electoral district)

Nanaimo is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.

Nanaimo (disambiguation)

Nanaimo is a city in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Nanaimo may also refer to:

  • Regional District of Nanaimo
  • Nanaimo A, British Columbia, a regional district electoral area
  • Nanaimo G, British Columbia, a regional district electoral area
  • Nanaimo Station, an elevated Skytrain station in East Vancouver, British Columbia
  • , several warships

  • Nanaimo bar, a brownie of Canadian origin
  • Various electoral districts, including:
    • Nanaimo (electoral district), from 1903 to 1962
    • Nanaimo (provincial electoral district), from 1871 to 1928, and 1996 to present
    • Nanaimo—Alberni
    • Nanaimo—Cowichan
    • Nanaimo-Parksville

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Davie Fulton, the brilliant young Rhodes Scholar from Kamloops, British Columbia, very quickly established himself as the procedural expert of the Conservative Party in battling the Liberal move, while Stanley Knowles from Winnipeg, and Colin Cameron from Nanaimo, British Columbia, became the chief spokesmen for the CCF.

Dunsmuir --the proprietor of the Wellington Collieries, a few miles north of Nanaimo--over the new railway from Victoria to Nanaimo, constructed, with Government aid, by himself and Mr.