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The table below lists the census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in British Columbia by population, using data from the Canada 2016 Census. [1] Each entry is identified as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA), as defined by Statistics Canada .
Nanaimo (/ n ə ˈ n aɪ m oʊ / nə-NY-moh) is a city of about 100,000 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada."The Harbour City" was previously known as the "Hub City", which was attributed to its original layout design with streets radiating from the shoreline like the spokes of a wagon wheel, and to its relatively central location on Vancouver Island.
The Regional District of Nanaimo is a regional district located on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. [3] It is bordered to the south by the Cowichan Valley Regional District , to the west by the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District , and to the northwest by the Comox Valley Regional District .
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The Nanaimo Bastion is a historical octagon-shaped blockhouse located at 98 Front Street in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. The Hudson's Bay Company, which then held a royal lease on all of what was then the Colony of Vancouver Island, built it between 1853 and 1855 to defend its coal mining operations in Nanaimo. It has been called "Nanaimo ...
The area was first known as Wintuhuysen Inlet and then Colvile Town (named for HBC Governor Andrew Colvile) but became known as Nanaimo in 1860. The first church opened in 1861. In 1853 the population was 125. By 1869 it was about 650 and by 1874 it was close to 1,000. By 1859, 25,000 tons of coal had been shipped from Nanaimo, mostly to San ...
The Port of Nanaimo features two seaports, one downtown Nanaimo called Nanaimo Assembly Wharf and the other at the south-east corner of the harbour at Duke Point. The Nanaimo Assembly Wharf has two deep sea berths, "B" and "C", each 200 metres in length. "B" is 12.4 m deep while "C" is 11.7 m deep.
The ferry terminal is located at Duke Point in Nanaimo and is the only major terminal in the BC Ferries system without a public transit connection. [ 2 ] The terminal was built in 1997 for $42 million (equivalent to $67.88 million in 2022) to divert commercial vehicle traffic away from BC Ferries' other main Nanaimo terminal in the heart of the ...