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Canoe, British Columbia, is a semi-rural community in British Columbia within the larger City of Salmon Arm. The community lies on the south side of Shuswap Lake, northeast of the city centre, just off the Trans Canada Highway. Canoe is home to the Canoe Forest Products plywood plant, which processes lumber from the surrounding forests for sale ...
For Canadian government census purposes and contemporary Canadian parlance, East Asian Canadians are typically identified and referred under the term "Asian"; popular usage of this term in Canada generally excludes both South and West Asians, both groups with ancestral origins in the Middle East and in the Indian subcontinent respectively, and instead solely referring to individuals who trace ...
Falkland is an unincorporated community located in the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District of British Columbia, Canada.. Recognized as being home to one of Canada's largest Canadian flags, [2] and the annual Falkland Stampede, [3] [4] the Falkland area has a wide array of lakes, which are used for fishing and recreation.
Dunbar–Southlands is a neighbourhood situated on the western side of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that stretches north from the Fraser River and covers most of the land between the mouth of the Fraser and English Bay. This neighbourhood consists of many commercial and residential areas that mostly consists of single-family dwellings.
Mongolian Canadians are Canadian citizens who are descended from migrants from Mongolia. According to the 2021 Census by Statistics Canada, there were 9,090 Canadians who claimed full or partial Mongolian ancestry. Canada Mongolia Chamber of Commerce, established by Mongolian Canadians, helps to connect business and people between the two ...
Not all Upper Mongols are Khoshut Oirats; there are a few Khalkha, Choros and Torghuts.The Ligdan Khan came to Upper Mongolia with 150,000–200,000 Chahar people (30,000–40,000 soldiers) and his ally Tsogt Taij came with 40,000 Khalkha soldiers, but 70%–90% of them were killed by disease and by the Güshi Khan's army.
Francis George Gardiner, architect's drawings of the Schara Tzedeck synagogue, c. 1920 are at Vancouver City Archives. [1] Its present rabbi is Rabbi Andrew Rosenblatt. The congregation has a diverse membership, with many multi-generational families and long-time members. It is located at 3476 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC.
Clarke argued that the Qing campaign in 1757–58 "amounted to the complete destruction of not only the Dzungar state but of the Dzungars as a people." [9] After the Qianlong Emperor led Qing forces to victory over the Dzungar Oirat (Western) Mongols in 1755, he originally was going to split the Dzungar Khanate into four tribes headed by four ...