** The BC Ferries company, later to become the second-largest ferry operator in th world, commences service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

From Departure Bay, a ferry route ( see BC Ferries ) connects the highway to West Vancouver.

Another blunder was the botched construction of the PacifiCat BC Ferries, which would later become part of the FastCat Fiasco ; the project, designed to speed transportation between Vancouver and Nanaimo, was plagued by cost over-runs and poor technical decisions.

Crown corporations of British Columbia include BC Hydro, BC Ferries, and the British Columbia Lottery Corporation.

The provincial government at the time, led by New Democratic Party ( NDP ) premier Glen Clark, decided to use provincial Crown corporation BC Ferries to advance its economic goal of supporting British Columbia's shipbuilding industry by creating a fleet of custom-designed high-speed catamaran passenger / vehicle ferries for BC Ferries.

A major impetus for the project was to have BC Ferries spend some of the billions it needs to spend on new ships to be spent locally.

In the early planning stages of the project, Australian fast ferry operator Holyman, then one of the biggest and most experienced fast ferry operators in the world, was in talks with BC Ferries and the NDP Government.

The Holyman Managing Director and its Global Development Manager met with the Minister for Transport and cautioned him against the BC Ferries FastCat plan.

The vessels built for BC Ferries were intended to improve ferry service between the mainland terminal of Horseshoe Bay ( in West Vancouver ) and the Vancouver Island terminal at Departure Bay ( in Nanaimo ).

Technically, PacifiCat Voyager was never part of the BC Ferries fleet, as it was christened but never commissioned ; by the time this vessel was ready for deployment, the bottom had already fallen out of the Fast Ferry Program.

Due to various oversights by the government, BC Ferries, design bureaus, and the shipyards, the cost of the program more than doubled from $ 210 million ($ 70 million / vessel ) to almost $ 460 million ($ 150 million / vessel ) and final delivery was almost 3 years behind schedule.

This was largely due to BC Ferries ' insistence on using diesel engines rather than the more efficient gas turbines that were originally planned.

On Friday, December 16, 2005 WMG confirmed that it is considering putting the ferries into service from North Vancouver to Duke Point ( near Nanaimo ) to compete with the BC Ferries routes.

* During the project, the BC Ferries ’ subsidiary, Catamaran Ferries International ( CFI ) board responsible for managing the project was replaced in its entirety without just cause in order to allow for more representation by B. C.

* During the project, the chief executive officer for CFI also held the same position at BC Ferries.

* BC Ferries had initially recommended that a comparable ferry be leased for trials in coastal waters, but the Government decided to forego testing and committed to the construction project regardless.

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fast ferries initiative, which was designed to upgrade the existing BC Ferries fleet as well as jump start the shipbuilding industry in Vancouver.

The two busiest routes of the BC Ferries system cross the strait, between Tsawwassen ( south of Vancouver ) and Swartz Bay ( near Victoria ) and between Horseshoe Bay ( north of Vancouver ) and Nanaimo.

* Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal ( BC Ferries to Tsawwassen, near Vancouver ) ( North Saanich )

Highway 17 has had its present course through the area since 1960, when the BC Ferries terminal at Swartz Bay was completed.

There are currently 3 berths at Horseshoe Bay, making it the third largest BC Ferries terminal, after Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay.

Swartz Bay, located on the north end of the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island, is primarily known for being the location of one of BC Ferries ' main terminals, the Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal.

The CUC is divided into four regions: " BC " ( British Columbia ), " Western " ( Alberta to Thunder Bay ), " Central " ( between Thunder Bay and Kingston ), and " Eastern " ( Kingston, Ottawa and everything east of that ).

West Cornwall, around Mount's Bay, was traditionally thought to have been visited by metal traders from the eastern Mediterranean During the first millennium BC trade became more organised, first with the Phoenicians, who settled Gades ( Cadiz ) around 1100 BC, and later with the Greeks, who had settled Massilia ( Marseilles ) and Narbo ( Narbonne ) around 600 BC.

It was named by Romans in the 1st century BC as Sinus Cantabrorum ( Bay of the Cantabri ), more frequently, Mare Gallaecum.

The alphabets derive from the Euboean Greek Cumaean alphabet, used at Ischia and Cumae in the Bay of Naples in the eighth century BC.

* Galena Pass, a low mountain pass on BC 31 near Galena Bay, southeast of Revelstoke, British Columbia

* CFL quarterback Mike Reilly — BC Lions, Formerly of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers, St. Louis Rams, Seattle Seahawks.

They landed in Ireland at Dún na mBarc ( Donemark, on Bantry Bay in County Cork ), forty days before the Flood, in Age of the World 2242 according to the Annals of the Four Masters, or 2361 BC according to Seathrún Céitinn's chronology.

Archaeological evidence suggests the San Francisco Bay Area has been inhabited as early as 2700 BC People of the Ohlone language group occupied Northern California from at least the 6th century.

Birch Bay is approximately 100 miles north of Seattle and 35 miles south of Vancouver, BC, Canada.

There is also regular BC Ferries service between Skidegate and Alliford Bay on Moresby Island.

Located on Vancouver Island, Nanaimo is about 110 km northwest of Victoria, and 55 km west of Vancouver, separated by the Strait of Georgia, and linked to Vancouver via the Horseshoe Bay BC Ferries terminal in West Vancouver.

Nanaimo also has three BC Ferry terminals located at Departure Bay, Duke Point, and downtown.

) Manson, famed hunting guide and father of Tom ( William Martley ) and ' Colonel "( Donald Arthur ) Manson, also well-known hunting guides, and grand-son of Donald Manson, well known in the early history of the Hudson's Bay Company in BC.

Residents and visitors wishing to travel to Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and other destinations along the Inside Passage may use the BC Ferries car and passenger ferry service from two terminals in the communities of Tsawwassen and Horseshoe Bay, south and north of Vancouver respectively.

Before 1979, the highway terminated in the north at Kelsey Bay, where BC Ferries originally began its northern route to Prince Rupert until moving its southern terminus north to Port Hardy after the highway was extended.

Over 20 large craters have been produced in the past 14, 000 years, resulting in such features as Mary Bay, Turbid Lake, and Indian Pond which was created in an eruption about 1300 BC.

The naval Battle of Pylos took place in 425 BC during the Peloponnesian War at the peninsula of Pylos, on the Bay of Navarino in Messenia, and was an Athenian victory over Sparta.