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Chinatown in Vancouver, British Columbia is Canada's largest Chinatown. Centred on Pender Street, it is surrounded by Gastown and the Downtown Financial and Central Business Districts to the west, the Downtown Eastside to the north, the remnant of old Japantown to the northeast, and the residential neighbourhood of Strathcona to the east.
Vancouver's Chinatown in 1927. Chinatown is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is Canada's largest Chinatown.Centred around Pender Street, it is surrounded by Gastown to the north, the Downtown financial and central business districts to the west, the Georgia Viaduct and the False Creek inlet to the south, the Downtown Eastside and the remnant of old Japantown to the northeast ...
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Throughout his life, Rowlands contributed articles and stories about outdoors woodcraft and his experiences to such magazines as the Atlantic Monthly and Boys' Life.He wrote two books, and he is most noted for his first book, Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods, a fictionalized account of his experiences with Chief Tibeash in the lake country of the North Ontario woods, originally ...
Algonquin Park provides some of Canada's best canoeing, with hundreds of navigable lakes and rivers forming a 2,000-kilometre-long (1,200 mi) interconnected system of canoe routes. The two main access points to start a trip are located on Canoe Lake and Lake Opeongo. [19]
The second Nanaimo Chinatown became a part of the city limits in 1887. There were 228 Chinese in Nanaimo in 1891. [3] 600 Chinese, most of whom were residents of Chinatown, resided in Nanaimo in 1901. [6] This Chinatown became the third largest in the province, and the second largest on Vancouver Island after that of Victoria. [4]
Spedden was named after one of the original surveyors who died in the area in 1919. Previously it bore the name Cache Lake. [3]Spedden received a Canadian National rail-line in 1919, and by the end of the year St. Paul residents pushed the line another 50 kilometres through Ashmont to their locality.
The Highland Inn (1908–1957) was a year-round resort hotel built and operated by the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR), in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park.It was located near the park offices on the northern edge of Cache Lake, and was a focal point for the park for many years.