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Alberni and Athletics
In 1955, the Alberni Athletics Senior-A Men's Basketball Team had an outstanding year.
The Alberni Athletics were inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.

Alberni and Canadian
Sky Lee ( born September 15, 1952 in Port Alberni, British Columbia ) is a Canadian artist and novelist.
In the Canadian House of Commons, Nanaimo is represented by the ridings of Nanaimo — Cowichan ( Jean Crowder, New Democratic Party ) and Nanaimo — Alberni ( James Lunney, Conservative ).
Rogers, the discoverer of Rogers Pass, when he surveyed in the Alberni Valley for the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 19th century.
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.
Coulson Aircrane, Canadian Aero Technologies, Alberni Valley Flying Club and Vancouver Island Helicopters.
* Rick Hansen was born in Port Alberni ( 1957 –) and is a Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist for people with spinal cord injuries who is most famous for his Man in Motion world tour to raise money for the cause and show the physical capabilities of such people.
He resigned as MLA in early 1988 and was elected to the Canadian House of Commons representing the Federal riding of Comox — Alberni from 1988 to 1993.
Comox — Alberni was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1979.

Alberni and at
On June 1989, the Queen of Alberni collided with the loading dock at Departure Bay causing significant damage to the ship and dock.
On March 12, 1992, at 8: 08 am ( 16: 08 UTC ), the Queen of Alberni collided with the Japanese freighter Shinwa Maru southwest of Tsawwassen.
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.
In 1862, small-scale placer gold mining took place on China Creek ; in the 1890s more gold mining took place along the Alberni Inlet at China Creek and Mineral Creek.
Sawmills were built at Alberni, Great Central Lake, and the McLean Mill.
Damage to Bank of Montreal in Port Alberni by the 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake. The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake was a 7. 3 magnitude earthquake that struck Vancouver Island, on the Coast of British Columbia, Canada, at 10: 15 a. m. on Sunday, June 23, 1946.
Located at the head of the Alberni Inlet, Port Alberni lies adjacent to this natural harbour as well as the Somass River.
The former city of Alberni is now dubbed " North Port ", and is centered at Highway 4 and Gertrude Street.
An energetic team of salmon enhancement volunteers and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans have been improving salmon habitat throughout the Alberni Valley, adding a Coho hatchery at the McLean Mill National Historic Site, in addition to the highly successful Robertson Creek Hatchery on the Stamp River.
The highway starts at Qualicum Beach, then reaches Port Alberni from which it continues on to Tofino and Ucluelet.
Record was awarded while Dakota was hosting his radio show at CJAV radio in Port Alberni.
Another 2 km ( 1¼ mi ) south of the interchange with Highway 19, Highway 4 meets a junction with an older Alberni Highway segment, now known as Highway 4A, at the small community of Coombs.
After Cameron Lake, Highway 4 climbs for 8 km to the Port Alberni Summit — known by locals as " The Hump ", at which it crosses from the Regional District of Nanaimo into the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District — and then descends for 6 km to a spur that travels into the city centre of Port Alberni.
A picture that I took of the Philippine Mars water bomber moored at its current base on Sproat Lake, Port Alberni, BC
On August 1, 2009 a Steam Donkey was officially unveiled at McLean Mill National Historic Site in Port Alberni, British Columbia.
It was restored by the Alberni Valley Industrial Heritage Society in 1986 for Expo 86 and more recently was re-certified for commercial use at McLean Mill.
Ailing and mostly blind, she was removed to Port Alberni, where she died at the age of 97.

Alberni and home
Sproat Lake, located just outside of Port Alberni is the present home of Martin Mars water bombers.
Port Alberni is home to the McLean Mill National Historic Site which incorporates a steam railway from the downtown harbour to the saw mill up the valley.
The Alberni Valley Multiplex in Port Alberni is home to the Alberni Valley Bulldogs, a Junior-A hockey team in the BCHL.

Alberni and .
* 1886 – Luis Alberni, Spanish actor ( d. 1962 )
Other notable cities and towns on Vancouver Island include Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Parksville, Courtenay, and Campbell River.
On August 9, 1979, the Queen of Alberni was transiting through Active Pass when it ran aground on Galiano Island, tipping fifteen degrees to starboard.
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 the sister-city to Abashiri in northern Japan.
Illustration from Indian Legends of Vancouver Island by Alfred CarmichaelBefore Europeans came, Alberni and the West Coast of Vancouver Island was the traditional territory of the Tseshaht and Hupacasath First Nations of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council.
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.
Adam Horne found this trail leading to the Alberni Valley and it became known as the Horne Lake Trail.
Many other settlers used this trail to get to the Alberni Valley.
Anderson Sawmill Port Alberni, B. C.
Gilbert Sproat and Edward Stamp transported men and machinery to Alberni.
Rogers Creek, which flows through the centre of Port Alberni, was named after A. B.

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