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The British Columbia Geographical Names Information System ( BCGNIS ) comments that most residents of Vancouver might consider it to be only areas west of Mission and Abbotsford, while residents in the rest of the province consider it to be the whole region south of Whistler and west of Hope.
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The British Columbia Geographical Names Office passed a resolution only recommending that the name be adopted by the Geographical Names Board of Canada, should its US counterpart approve the name-change.
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* BGN / PCGN romanization of Belarusian, 1979 ( United States Board on Geographic Names and Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use )
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The British Columbia Geographical Names Office passed a resolution recommending that the name only be adopted by the Geographical Names Board of Canada should its US counterpart approve the name change.
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The Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names translates this as " muddy valley by a ridge "; the fūl-element, which meant " foul " or " muddy " was used in the earliest known reference to the area, in a charter by Robert de Lacey, around the year 1200, as used in the Middle English spelling fulebachope.
Rivet and Smith, the authors of Place Names of Roman Britain, note that the name may be related to British Celtic cocco -, ' red ', suggesting that statues of the god might have been painted red.
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* K. Cameron, A Dictionary of British Place Names ( 2003 ).
* E. McDonald and J. Creswell, The Guinness Book of British Place Names ( 1993 ).
* A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford Paperback Reference ( 2003 ).
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* BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names ( Oxford UP, 1971 )
* The Gazetteer of British Place Names with over 50, 000 entries
A further fragment in Syriac in the British Museum, titled Names of the wives of the patriarchs according to the Hebrew books called Jubilees suggests that there once existed a Syriac translation.
Names the river that now runs through the town: Peel River, after British Prime Minister Robert Peel, whose name is also that of the main street and one of the local high schools.
* BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names ( Oxford UP, 1971 )
* BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names ( Oxford UP, 1971 )
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