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Vancouver

Granville

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
SW British Columbia; is the nation's most significant port on Pacific Ocean; was severely damaged by fire 1886; economic activity includes shipbuilding, metal production, fishing, printing, publishing and wood processing.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
CCA Object File; Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994); USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers; Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);

Active

Susan Point (Musquem Salish and Canadian, born 1952)

Died

Lawren Harris (American, 1885-1970)

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