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Nanaimo

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British Columbia, Canada
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About Nanaimo

Nanaimo is a city on the east shore of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is known as "The Harbor City". The city was already known as the "Center Point City", which has been ascribed to its unique format plan where the avenues emanated out from the shoreline like the spokes of a wagon wheel, and also it’s for the most part brought together area on Vancouver Island. Nanaimo is likewise the central command of the Regional District of Nanaimo.

The Indigenous people groups of the zone that is presently known as Nanaimo are the Snuneymuxw. An anglicized spelling and elocution of that word gave the city its present name. The main Europeans to discover Nanaimo Bay were those of the 1791 Spanish voyage of Juan Carrasco, under the summon of Francisco de Eliza. They gave it the name Bocas de Winthuysen.

Situated on the east shoreline of Vancouver Island, Nanaimo is around 110 km northwest of Victoria, and 55 km west of Vancouver, isolated by the Strait of Georgia, and connected to Vancouver by means of the Horseshoe Bay BC Ferries terminal in West Vancouver and the Duke Point terminal to the Tsawwassen ship terminal in Tsawwassen. As the site of the primary ship terminal, Nanaimo is the portal to numerous different goals both on the northern piece of the island and numerous others of the Gulf Islands.

The first financial driver was coal mining; in any case, the ranger service industry supplanted it in the mid 1960s with the working of the MacMillan Bloedel mash process at Harmac in 1958, named after Harvey MacMillan. Today the mash process is claimed by the representatives and nearby financial specialists and infuses well finished a large portion of a million dollars every day into the neighborhood economy.

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