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City in British Columbia
Answer for the clue "City in British Columbia ", 9 letters:
vancouver
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Vancouver was a federal electoral district in British Columbia , Canada , that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1872 to 1904. This riding was created for the 1872 federal election , following British Columbia's admission into the Canadian ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Canadian city, settled 1865, named for the island, which was named for English navigator George Vancouver (1757-1798) who sailed with Capt. Cook and surveyed the Pacific coast in this area in 1792.
Usage examples of vancouver.
In 1502 the globe was at last girdled with submarine cables when a line was run from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Australia and New Zealand.
Boston for a second voyage September 28, 1790, and reached Clayoquot on the west coast of Vancouver Island on June 5, 1791.
In a word, if Vancouver had not gone up as far as Norfolk Sound or Sitka, the Russian fur traders would have drowsed on with Kadiak as headquarters, and Canada to-day might have included the entire gold-fields of Alaska.
Bay Company built or purchased its fleet of flagship downtown department stores in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon and Winnipeg, opening smaller versions in Kamloops, Vernon, Nelson, Macleod, Lethbridge, Yorkton and Kenora, all of them initlallv successful as the transcontinental railA ays deposited tens of thousands of new customers on their doorsteps.
Since the Rochdale years, Goldstein has moved out to Vancouver, married a quite interesting young Japanese woman, and had some kids.
In the 1962 election, however, the suburbanites rejected the Tories and out of the fifty-eight seats in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Vancouver, Diefenbaker held on to only nine.
Toru Sakai police believe may be credible was an anonymous call in early 1988 from a woman who knew unpublished details about the Sakai family and the case and told investigators that Toru had left the country by crossing the Canadian border to Vancouver.
For a moment Angel considered slowing and trolling along the floating rafts of logs waiting to be picked up by a towboat and hauled to Vancouver Bay.
Kyocera had sent Turner Choi, one of their new recruits, a twenty-six-year-old Chinese Canadian CAD-CAM engineer from Vancouver.
Taipei and Vancouver, Grandfather Choi still had that cold eye and that grim shakedown look.
Businesses, collectors, owners of all kinds of Chinese artifacts simply packed them up and shipped them to Vancouver or Seattle, San Francisco or L.
Wooded slopes dipped to grassland, then to the sprawling expanse of Vancouver, its expensive highrises contrasting with underground shopping centers, sleek subdivisions, and landscaped homes.
If not, then tomorrow, when she returned the exhibition jades to the Tang vault in Vancouver.
The gloves washed up all over, from Vancouver to Vietnam, helping oceanographers to trace currents more accurately than they ever had before.
While Ms Bancroft is committed to the Vancouver psychiatric stack, both sleeves are stored here.