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.

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* 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 is the sister-city to Abashiri in northern Japan.

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.

Port Jervis, basking in the foothills, was the city of God.

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

Barges are also used for very heavy or bulky items ; a typical barge measures 195 by 35 feet ( 59. 4 m × 10. 6 m ), and can carry up to 1, 500 tons catalytic cracking unit reactor was shipped by barge from the Tulsa Port of Catoosa in Oklahoma to a refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

The boomerang was first encountered by western people at Farm Cove ( Port Jackson ), Australia, in December 1804 where its use as a weapon was witnessed during a tribal skirmish:

In 1822 it was described in detail and recorded as a " bou-mar-rang ", in the language of the Turuwal people ( a sub-group of the Dharug ) of the Georges River near Port Jackson.

By the late 1950s, the once-prosperous port area of downtown Manhattan was occupied by a number of dilapidated shipping piers, casualties of the rise of container shipping which drove sea traffic to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Historically, this proceeded from the labours of Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ), " le dénicheur des saints ", and Louis Sébastien le Nain de Tillemont, who had shown the falsity of numerous lives of the saints ; while theologically it was produced by the Port Royal school, which led men to dwell more on communion with God as contrasted with the invocation of the saints.

The 43rd Marine Infantry Battalion of the French Army's Troupes de Marine (: fr: 43e bataillon d ' infanterie de marine ) was based in Port Bouet adjacent to the Abidjan Airport from 1979 and had more than 500 troops assigned until 2011, when it appears to have been disbanded.

It was later joined in the suit by the Port Authority of New York.

In 1613, Virginian raiders captured Port Royale, and in 1621 Acadia was ceded to Scotland's Sir William Alexander who renamed it Nova Scotia.

By 1632, Acadia was returned from Scotland to France under the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and the Port Royale settlement was moved to the site of nearby present-day Annapolis Royal.

This was in addition to the appropriate honorary dignity, which was due by virtue of being the Senior Bishop of the main Metropolis of the Province, Alexandria, which also the Capital and the main Port of the Province.

The town was home to the civil engineer and calculating prodigy George Parker Bidder ( 1806 – 1878 ), who is notable for his work on railways over much of the world, as well as the docks of the East End in the Port of London.

Government troops joined forces with the rebels and the railway to the Treaty Port of Tientsin was interrupted.

* An agreement concerning the use of the Port of Djibouti and the transit of cargo, was signed in Djibouti between the two countries on 13 April 2002, and ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 4 June of the same year.

A protocol concerning Ethiopian access to Port Sudan was signed between the two countries 5 March 2000 in Khartoum, and this protocol and its subsequent amendment were ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 3 July 2003.

In October her body was brought from Kyūshū by sea to Port Naniwa-zu ( today Osaka city ); and her state funeral was held in early November.

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which was an amendment to the larger and unrelated SAFE Port Act, included " carve out " language that clarified the legality of fantasy sports.

John Byron, who was unaware of the French presence in the east, explored Saunders Island, in the west, named the harbour Port Egmont, and claimed this and other islands for Britain on the grounds of prior discovery.

In December 1978 he was appointed as a coach at Port Vale, being demoted to reserve coach in October 1978 as the team struggled, before being dismissed in 1979.

A person buried at the Maritime Archaic site at Port au Choix, Newfoundland, dating to about 2000 BC, was found surrounded by more than 200 Great Auk beaks, which are believed to have been part of a suit made from their skins, with the heads left attached as decoration.

After some exploration Phillip decided to go on to Port Jackson, and on 26 January the marines and convicts were landed at Sydney Cove, which Phillip named after Lord Sydney.

John Clements Wickham named the region " Port Darwin " in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin, who had sailed with them on the ship's previous voyage which had ended in October 1836.

Descendants of the original community still live in the area on the small island of Abdullah Goth, which is located near the Karachi Port. The original name " Kolachi " survives in the name of a well-known Karachi locality named " Mai Kolachi " in Sindhi.

British authorities in Canada were nervous about possible expansion by American settlers across Lake Erie, so Colonel Talbot developed the Talbot Trail in 1809 as a way to stimulate settlement to the area ; Talbot recruited settlers from Ireland and Scotland and there are numerous places named after him, such as Port Talbot and the Talbot River and Talbotville in southern Ontario.

American soldiers swept through the Ontario area around Port Rowan burning towns and villages, but spared a gristmill owned by a Canadian mason named John Backhouse, according to one report.

A year later Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage, sailing south and eastward from upper Central America, explored Bocas del Toro, Veragua, the Chagres River and Porto Belo ( Beautiful Port ) which he named.

Resettlement began around 1868 when a Cincinnati syndicate purchased a tract at the mouth of Cedar Creek and named it Port Lawrence, creating the modern downtown area.

The services that run along this line are named after the branches they use ; trains beyond Hicksville ( where the Port Jefferson Branch splits ), are known as Ronkonkoma Branch and the Greenport Branch trains.

Wellfleet was encountered by Europeans as early as 1606, when the French explorer Samuel de Champlain explored and named it " Port Aux Huitres " ( Oyster Port ) for the bountiful oyster population resident to the area.

A school ( John Philip Sousa Elementary ) and a band shell are named after him and there is also a memorial tree planted in nearby Port Washington.

The science block at John Port School is named Flamsteed in recognition of his work for science.

The Galveston Railway, originally established and named in 1854 as the Galveston Wharf and Cotton Press Company, is a Class III terminal switching railroad that primarily serves the transportation of cargo to and from the Port of Galveston.

Cécille occupied much of the time of his officers and crew in making accurate charts of the harbours, first of all of Akaroa and then of Port Cooper ( which he named Tokolabo ) and Port Levy.

Port Louis-Philippe ( Akaroa ) was named as the site of the settlement proposed in this agreement, in terms of which the Government undertook to make available to the Company the 550-ton storeship Mahé, renamed Comte-de-Paris to provide 17 months rations for 80 men ; to consider the properties of the French colonists as French properties and the colonists themselves as French subjects, and to treat the produce of their crops as if they were of French origin.

He named Arthur ’ s Seat, explored Corio Bay and formally took possession of the bay ( which he named Port King ) for Britain.

East Volusia-also known as the Greater Daytona Beach Area, or the Halifax Area ( named for the Halifax River which runs through the area ), this region includes the cities of Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach Shores, Holly Hill, Ormond Beach, Ponce Inlet, Port Orange, and South Daytona ; and the surrounding unincorporated areas close to these cities.

A town near Port Jervis, New York is named Huguenot.

Another source gave the original name as New Port Newce, named for a person with the name Newce and the town's place as a new seaport.

On March 16, 1751, James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, was born in Port Conway in southern King George County at Belle Grove plantation, the childhood home of his mother, Eleanor Rose " Nellie " Conway, the daughter of its owner, Francis Conway, for whom Port Conway was named.

The county is named for Captain Charles Gratiot, who supervised the building of Port Huron's Fort Gratiot.