Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Richmond, British Columbia. Richmond is a city in the coastal Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada. Mainly a suburban city, it occupies almost the entirety of Lulu Island (excluding Queensborough), between the two estuarine distributaries of the Fraser River. Encompassing the adjacent Sea Island (where the Vancouver International ...
The history of British Columbia covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. Prior to European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day British Columbia were inhabited for millennia by a number of First Nations. Several European expeditions to the region were undertaken in the late 18th ...
Steveston, British Columbia. The settlement of Steveston, founded in the 1880s, [1] is a neighbourhood of Richmond in Metro Vancouver. On the southwest tip of Lulu Island, the village is a historic port and salmon canning centre at the mouth of the South Arm of the Fraser River. The early 1900s style architecture attracts both the film and ...
Sea Island Sea Island (in red) within the rest of Richmond (pink, which occupies much of Lulu Island) and Metro Vancouver (green) Geography Location Fraser River Estuary Coordinates 49°12′N 123°10′W / 49.200°N 123.167°W / 49.200; -123.167 Administration Canada Province British Columbia Sea Island (hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓: sqʷsaθən) is an island in the Fraser River estuary ...
Finn Slough. Coordinates: 49°6′47″N 123°6′56″W. Finn Slough. Finn Slough is a tiny Fraser River fishing community, sometimes referred to as Gilmore or Tiffin Slough. [1]. It is located at the south end of No. 4 Road in the Gilmore area of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The community has approximately 30 residents who live in ...
The Richmond Nature Park is a bog-forest nature park located in the city of Richmond, British Columbia. The Richmond Nature Park covers 200 acres of the raised peat bog habitat that has previously covered large sections of Lulu Island. [1] The ever-changing environment of the Richmond Nature Park is also dominated by a wet, spongy land of ...
1436 m. History. Construction start. 1969. Opened. January 15, 1974. Location. The Knight Street Bridge is a crossing over the north arm of the Fraser River, the Canadian National Railway (CNR) line, and several roads, in Metro Vancouver.
Fantasy Gardens, also known as Fantasy Garden World, was a former amusement park in Richmond, British Columbia that was located at the corner of Steveston Highway and No. 5 Road. The park was called Fantasy Gardens because it was surrounded by a series of stone buildings that were designed to resemble structures built during the Middle Ages.