Other notable cities and towns on Vancouver Island include Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Parksville, Courtenay, and Campbell River.

Sky Lee ( born September 15, 1952 in Port Alberni, British Columbia ) is a Canadian artist and novelist.

Category: People from Port Alberni

* Catalyst Port Alberni ( Port Alberni, Canada ) ( demerged )

As the site of the main ferry terminal, Nanaimo is the gateway to many other destinations both on the island — Tofino, Comox Valley, Parksville, Campbell River, Port Alberni, Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park — and off its coast — Newcastle Island, Protection Island, Gabriola Island, Valdes Island, and many other of the Gulf Islands.

It is common in southwestern cities such as Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Alberni, Vancouver and Victoria.

Port Alberni is a city located in the province of British Columbia in Canada.

Port Alberni is a deep port city which lies within the Alberni Valley at the head of the Alberni Inlet, Vancouver Island's longest inlet.

Port Alberni was named for Captain Pere d ' Alberní, a Spanish officer, who commanded Fort San Miguel at Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island's west coast from 1790 to 1792.

Many place names in Port Alberni have a Nuu-chah-nulth origin, such as Somass ( washing ), Kitsuksis ( log across mouth of creek ), Pacheena ( foamy ), and Nootka ( go around ).

Frances Barkley is also the name of one of the two vessels that makes trips down the Alberni Inlet from Port Alberni to Bamfield and Ucluelet.

Anderson Sawmill Port Alberni, B. C.

Rogers Creek, which flows through the centre of Port Alberni, was named after A. B.

In 1912, Port Alberni was incorporated with the arrival of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, and planned arrival of the Canadian National Railway, and the trans-Pacific telegraph cable at Bamfield.

Mining took place on the Alberni Inlet and, as with many fish camps and outports, depended on Port Alberni as a base.

Port Alberni was once an industrial resource-dependent town, with logging and mining being the main economic drivers.

Port Alberni is in the process of " re-developing " itself as a tourism destination.

She is vacationing at the Kennedy summer home in Hyannis Port, Mass., and in his welcoming remarks, the President said he was representing her.

Hurricane Carla damaged 70% of the marinas in the Galveston-Port Aransas area but fuel service is back to normal, and explorers can roam as far west as Port Isabel on the Mexican border.

Port Blair is the chief community on the islands, and the administrative centre of the Union Territory.

The only airport in the islands is Vir Savarkar Airport in Port Blair, which has scheduled services to Kolkata and Chennai and Delhi, Banglore and Bhubaneswar.

Located on the south shore of the Columbia, the city is served by the Port of Astoria with a deep-water port.

The Accelerated Graphics Port ( often shortened to AGP ) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

The ferry boat from Tomioka Port in Reihoku, sailing north to Mogi in Nagasaki Prefecture, is operated by Yasuda Sangyo Kisen Co. Ltd.

The Port of Antwerp is one of the largest in Europe and the world

Brian Lara is popularly nicknamed as " The Prince of Port of Spain " or simply " The Prince ".

The largest seaport with the deepest channel to a port in the Adriatic is Port of Rijeka on the northern Croatian coast, followed by Ploče in southern Dalmatia.

The Strait of Canso is completely navigable to Seawaymax vessels, and Port Hawkesbury is open to the deepest-draught vessels on the world's oceans.

For example, the federal government funds Canada Day events at the Old Port of Montreal — an area run by a federal Crown corporation — while the National Holiday parade is a grassroots effort that has been met with pressure to cease, even from federal officials.

The Port of Casablanca is one of the largest artificial ports in the world, and the largest port of North Africa.

The railroad is tied to the Port of Djibouti, which provides port facilities and trade ties to landlocked Ethiopia.

* The Port of Santo Domingo, with its location in the Caribbean, is well suited for flexible itinerary planning and has excellent support, road, and airport infrastructure within the Santo Domingo region, which facilitate access and transfers.

* Haina Occidental Port, located just 20 km west of Santo Domingo, is one of the most important port in the Dominican Republic.

* Port of Puerto Plata is the main commercial port on the north coast of the Dominican Republic.

* Port of Boca Chica is located about 20 miles east of the capital city and 5 miles of the International airport Las Americas.

* Port of San Pedro de Macoris is located on the Higuamo river.

* Central Romana Port, located in La Romana, belong to Central Romana Corporation which is a private company established in 1911 and has the largest sugar mill in the country.

* Cayo Levantado Port or ( Arroyo Barruk / Puerto Duarte ) is located in the Samaná Bay.

* Manzanillo Port is located very close to the Haitian border.

* Port of Cabo Rojo is located in Cabo Rojo, southeast to the border.

* Port of Barahona is located in Barahona, in the bay of Neyba.